On 5/21/07, Davy Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Interesting idea - look forward to seeing your gadget :-) I did try to
write a prototype which flattened out the front page of news.bbc.co.uk
into a big Google News style page. Perhaps I could dig that out and
modify the output.
If you have
Just in case it's of interest, bitty browser (http://www.bitty.com) is handy
for embedding cut-down web sites in personal homepages like iGoogle. E.g.
you could make it open the mobile version of the BBC news (
http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolpda/ukfs_news/hi/default.stm), and have a nice BBC
news
Richard P Edwards wrote:
You are not alone I tried a couple of years ago to use the BBC RSS,
and just found it had little order. That does not just apply to the BBC,
I don't use RSS for anything apart from Wired.
It's in a good editorial order with the Mac OSX RSS Screen Saver, which
is
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Cridland
Sent: 21 May 2007 13:58
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: Re: [backstage] A decent editorially-ordered BBC News feed?
They don't show the same for me. Which is odd.
I've done a tracert
http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/front_page/rss.xml
This is ordered editorially. Is the widget messing with it? Am I missing
something?
J
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Sent: 21 May 2007 12:47
It's not ordered editorially; it's ordered by time of last update of that
story.
So, right now:
http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/front_page/rss.xml
- Blaze ravages historic Cutty Sark
- Terror charge man freed on bail
- High marks for six forms
But
/newsonline_uk_edition/latest_published_stor
ies/rss.xml
Brendan.
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Sent: 21 May 2007 13:26
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: Re: [backstage] A decent editorially-ordered BBC News
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Cridland
Sent: 21 May 2007 13:26
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: Re: [backstage] A decent editorially-ordered BBC News feed?
It's not ordered editorially; it's ordered by time of last update of
that story.
So
It seems that iGoogle sorts the feed by pubDate, so the editorial order in
the original feed is lost. Incidentally, for me
http://newsrss.bbc.co.uk/rss/newsonline_uk_edition/front_page/rss.xml and
http://news.bbc.co.uk/nolpda/ukfs_news/hi/default.stm show exactly the same
order, it's only when
Hi James, with the cold,
You are not alone I tried a couple of years ago to use the BBC
RSS, and just found it had little order. That does not just apply to
the BBC, I don't use RSS for anything apart from Wired.
At about the same time Mario produced a bot in iChat that could help
to
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