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%3Aminejdg5pkecof=AH%3Aleft
%3BALC%3A%2366%3BBGC%3A%23FF%3BCX%3AChipwrapper%3BDIV%3A%23BB%3BFORID%3A0%3BGALT%3A%23003300%3BGFNT%3A%2366%3BGIMP%3A%2366%3BL%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.chipwrapper.co.uk%2Fimages%2Fchipwrapper-logo-small.jpg
%3BLC%3A%2366%3BLH%3A35%3BLP%3A1%3BS%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.chipwrapper.co.uk%3BT%3A%2333%3BVLC%3A%23002200%3Bq=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
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