[Air-L] Blog Archiving Technology Query / Facebook Tracking

[gustavo]

shlomi
may be thisis of help?
gustavo
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From: <elw at stderr.org>
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Sent: Saturday, January 05, 2008 5:23 AM
Subject: Re: [Air-L] Blog Archiving Technology Query / Facebook Tracking


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>
>> 1) Blog Archiving Platforms:??
>>
>> We're currently getting ready for another Canadian federal election,
>> which we're hoping to track electronically at the Infoscape Lab here in
>> Toronto: www.infoscapelab.ca.  We're trying to find a good blog archiver
>> that imports/exports complete RSS files with full text entries into a
>> database format that's easily interoperable with MSAccess or Excel (and
>> can be automated).  For example, RSS Owl allows people to export single
>> entries into XML, but not aggregated entries for all blogs that mention
>> a candidate like "Stephen Harper" with full text (as far as we know...).
>
> The most difficult question here is, "where are you going to get a list of
> all blogs mentioning X from?", rather than the technology.  Sometimes the
> hard part really IS the human element :-)
>
> If you can produce a list of rss feeds, grabbing them periodically and
> injecting them into a database is quite straightforward... the tools in
> that space are pretty sound.  [And I'd be happy to dump snips of code at
> you to do it...]
>
> --elijah
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