Re: [backstage] BBC News Live Stats XML - come and get it!
On 6/23/06, Matt Rink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know this is kind of a late follow up but I got bored a fews daysago and decided to build this module/gadget for Google's personalisedhomepage that used the data Ben provided. I hadn't built one before soI thought it would be a good start. You can select the region and the number of items to display.http://mattrink.co.uk/gadgets/bbcTopStories.xmlThanks to Mario for his now/next module. It is a great example Thanks Matt,so this is based on the LiveMapStats XML files, right?And as a side question, why did you set inlining as required - is it just the variable gadget height? If so, I think you'd be better of living with a fixed height and scrollbars, as forcing inlining may alienate people due to the extra security prompt.. Cheers,Mario.
Re: [backstage] BBC News Live Stats XML - come and get it!
At 16:36 +0100 13/6/06, Ben Metcalfe wrote: Hey folks, welcome to me on the other side! So the BBC News Website just released Live Stats features across the news website (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5071754.stm). But the visits (pageviews) will be affected but publishing the data in a positive feed back loop, surely? Gordo -- Think Feynman/ http://pobox.com/~gordo/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]/// - 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/
RE: [backstage] BBC News Live Stats XML - come and get it!
It's a good point Gordon, however I'd argue that not many people (relatively) will be clicking those links *just* because they are popular. I'd argue that the links around the story (related to it, and/or in the same section as it) are much more likely to be clicked by the user - and even more so, the stories on indexes picked by editors as being important. This is not to say that this view on the data isn't interesting (pretty much any new view on the data is, IMHO) - I think just because its popular doesn't mean its a 'good' enough reason for your average user to click it (which remember - we're not). Perhaps someone from News will have the results of a usability study, or even hard clickthrough data (now it's live) to correct me :-) J Jason Cartwright Client Side Developer - Content Management Culture - New Media Technology E: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T: 0208 00 85151 M: 0797 65 00729 A: BC4 C5 29, Broadcast Centre, 201 Wood Lane, London, W12 7TP Personal site: www.jasoncartwright.com Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies ~ Groucho Marx -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gordon Joly Sent: 14 June 2006 15:14 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] BBC News Live Stats XML - come and get it! At 16:36 +0100 13/6/06, Ben Metcalfe wrote: Hey folks, welcome to me on the other side! So the BBC News Website just released Live Stats features across the news website (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5071754.stm). But the visits (pageviews) will be affected but publishing the data in a positive feed back loop, surely? Gordo -- Think Feynman/ http://pobox.com/~gordo/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]/// - 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/ - 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/
[backstage] BBC News Live Stats XML - come and get it!
Hey folks, welcome to me on the other side! So the BBC News Website just released Live Stats features across the news website (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5071754.stm). But in fine hacker tradition I've not been wasting my unemployment to sit around in my underwear watching fucking Trisha and QVC (arhh, it's good to be able to swear and not use my this is the BBC formalities... ha ha!). Oh, no instead I've been busy hacking out the URLs for the XML that powers the Flash they've used to build the maps. Here's a taste: http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/bsp/hi/live_stats/data/country0.xml - Most popular current stories on the site (for all regions) http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/bsp/hi/live_stats/data/country99.xml - Most emailed stories http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/bsp/hi/live_stats/data/today_hourly.xml - Most popular story by hour (for today, also yesterday is available) There's also a new breaking news RSS file: http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_world_edition/breaking_news/rss.xml It all looks like it's updated pretty often, so there's all sorts of temporal analysis and similar good shit you could do with this. On my blog I've got a complete run down of all the urls (including most popular by region) and an explanation on how to derive story urls from the ids contained in XML feeds. So check out http://benmetcalfe.com/blog/index.php/2006/06/13/bbc-news-adds-live-stats-xml/ Let me know what you get up to. Have fun. Oh, and expect plenty more of this good shit real soon... -- Ben Metcalfe | e: mashup AT benmetcalfe.com PLEASE NOTE: I no longer work on the backstage.bbc.co.uk project or for the BBC. Please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you would like to contact the new project team directly. - 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/
