On Fri, 26 Mar 2010, Ian Eiloart wrote:
On 25 Mar 2010, at 15:14, Matthew Somerville wrote:
Have you asked the BBC if they'd make such data available, given they should be
doing things like that viahttp://backstage.bbc.co.uk/
You never know, might work!
I asked a BBC rep about this at a Lib Dem conference exhibition. He said that
it was on the to-do list, but didn't give a time frame.
if the BBC deploys (an update of) the flash app they usually
use, then you can just watch the http traffic for the
xml which drives it and then parse it.
You can guarantee updates as real-time too ;)
And, if they publish ward data for each constituency (which
they might), you can possibly get a strong indicator of
preferences for each local council, which is something very
few media organisations will do. Something nice for the
local blog on the night (until your servers melt).
Cheers
Sam
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Human progress depends on unreasonable people. Reasonable
people accept the world as they meet it; unreasonable people
persist in trying to change it. -- Bob Geldof
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