One of the problems I had with the datestamps is that certain newspapers CMS systems date all of their entries to being published on January 1st 1971 or some such arbitrary figure - but possibly I can do some more work on the Pipes.
m On 31/08/2007, Mario Menti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Martin, > > this is cool, and I was immediately thinking of feeding the headlines to > twitter using twitterfeed. However, some of the feeds, e.g. > http://feeds.feedburner.com/chipwrapper (the chipwrapper uk > newspaper headlines) don't seem to contain any date stamps, so won't work > with twitterfeed which needs the time stamps to know if an item is new > and/or has been posted previously. > > Any chance you could add this? > > Cheers, > Mario. > > > On 8/30/07, Martin Belam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi all, I wanted to introduce to the list a site I've been working on, > > and invite you to have a play with the feeds being produced, and maybe > > help make some new tools for it. > > > > Called Chipwrapper, it is intended to be a hub for searching purely UK > > newspapers and UK news sources. > > > > http://www.chipwrapper.co.uk > > > > OK, I know, I know, the Chipwrapper metaphor doesn't work once you add > > TV news. Originally it was strictly newspapers only, but it just > > seemed weird to be searching UK news and not see links from the BBC, > > ITN and Sky. > > > > The homepage is a headline aggregator and a Google Custom Search > > Engine which only brings back results from the major UK newspapers, > > plus the TV news giants. > > > > <astonishingly long link which will break in your mail client> > > > > > http://www.google.com/custom?cx=003036505619348485408%3Aminejdg5pke&cof=AH%3Aleft > %3BALC%3A%23000066%3BBGC%3A%23FFFFFF%3BCX%3AChipwrapper%3BDIV%3A%23BBBBBB%3BFORID%3A0%3BGALT%3A%23003300%3BGFNT%3A%23666666%3BGIMP%3A%23666666%3BL%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.chipwrapper.co.uk%2Fimages%2Fchipwrapper-logo-small.jpg > %3BLC%3A%23000066%3BLH%3A35%3BLP%3A1%3BS%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.chipwrapper.co.uk%3BT%3A%23333333%3BVLC%3A%23002200%3B&q=BBC+backstage > > > > </astonishingly long link which will break in your mail client> > > > > I plan to add regional and local newspapers to the results later in the > year. > > > > > > There are Opensearch plugins and a custom Google Toolbar button for the > service. > > > > > http://www.chipwrapper.co.uk/tools/browser_search_plugins.shtml > > > http://www.chipwrapper.co.uk/tools/google_toolbar_buttons.shtml > > > > > > There are also some RSS feeds for news headlines, sport headlines and > > football headlines - with some rugby-flavoured stuff to come to tie-in > > with the upcoming world cup. > > > > http://www.chipwrapper.co.uk/tools/rss_feeds.shtml > > > > > > > > There's also a Headline Buzz feature. It uses a longer Yahoo! Pipe > > which takes ten headlines for each source - > > > http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=QKDz_ihT3BGSheQho_NLYQ&_render=rss > > - and then analyses the most popular words. > > > > > > The top 7 words (at the moment) appear on the Chipwrapper homepage as > > the Headline Buzz links, but there is also a headline buzz RSS feed. > > This has all of the words (minus "stop" words like 'the', 'of' etc) > > that appear more than 3 times in the set of headlines in popularity > > order. It refreshes every hour. > > > > http://feeds.feedburner.com/chipwrapper-buzz > > > > > > There's a page on the site about making DIY stuff, with links to all > > the feeds and the original Yahoo! Pipes I've used to mash-up the > > newspaper content in one place. > > > > http://www.chipwrapper.co.uk/tools/make_stuff.shtml > > > > > > > > > > So far, apart from the cost of registering the domain and my own time, > > I've done everything using free (as in didn't cost me money) tools and > > free (as in I've republished it but am not quite sure how The Sun's > > lawyers are going to take it) content. > > > > There's lots of things that I've thought of, but don't have the > > ability and/or time to do or learn about - like mash-ups with maps, > > tracking headline changes over time, email alerts on topics - which > > maybe some of you guys and gals might want to play with? > > > > Of course, any feedback on what is there already is very welcome on or > > off-list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - plus does anyone know of a > > really good ready-to-download text file of 'stop' words, because at > > the moment I'm having to build it up by hand? > > > > I'm going to be in London for most of September and October with my > > BBC hat back on for a bit, so hopefully I might see/meet some of you > > at something suitably geeky during the course of that. > > > > all the best, > > martin > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Martin Belam - http://www.currybet.net > > - > > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk > /archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list > archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > > > > -- Martin Belam - http://www.currybet.net - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
