[Air-L] Beta Test a New Blog Scraping Tool

[burkx006 at umn.edu]

Excellent.  Just be sure to read this:

http://www.misq.org/archivist/vol/no30/Issue3/AllenBurkDavis.html

and this:

http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/SOIS/cipr/ijire/ijire_1.1_allen.pdf

before using it.

DLB

On Apr 17 2008, Stuart Shulman wrote:

>Folks,
>
>Some of you know I have a new penchant for tool-building. Well, the
>latest creation of the QDAP lab is a blog scraping tool. The tool is
>designed to allow you to set up accounts to automatically capture blog
>posts on one or several blogs and to archive the data in a plain text
>format "ready-to-be-coded" inside QDAP's Coding Analysis Toolkit.
>
>For anyone who ever wanted to study blogs, this is a big step forward.
>The emphasis here is on a user-friendly interface and a seamless
>system for capturing and coding blog data. Now, this is a brand new
>tool and probably a bit buggy. However, it works well enough that we
>invite you to set up an account and start capturing blog data. No
>doubt there are some of you interested in the blogs and Election 08.
>To create a new blog scraping account, please visit:
>
>https://surveyweb2.ucsur.pitt.edu/qblog/page_login.php
>
>To learn more about the Coding Analysis Toolkit, please visit:
>
>http://www.qdap.pitt.edu/cat.htm
>
>To learn about my lab, please visit:
>
>http://www.qdap.pitt.edu/
>
> thanks, Stu _______________________________________________ The 
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Dan L. Burk
Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly Professor
University of Minnesota Law School
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