[Air-L] Advice on ripping a twitter feed

[Stuart Shulman]

Very cool. Thanks Andrew!
This is a great time to send feedback about BAT. The purpose of the Blog
Analysis Toolkit is to establish a socially-constructed repository of blog
posts that are archived and accessible for research purposes. There are
about 250 BAT users at the present moment archiving about 200 blogs.The
posts are formatted in one of two ways to allow coding at the document or
paragraph level using another free software system, the Coding Analysis
Toolkit <http://cat.ucsur.pitt.edu/> (CAT). Once you join the system you
have access to all the archived posts and you can add new blogs to the
archiving process.

We have just started a new programmer to improve the platform, which is a
free by-product of ongoing NSF-funded research. We want to increase its
functionality and usability, so AoIR members are strongly encouraged to let
us know what you want BAT to do in the future. We face challenges doing some
simple things, like getting the comments and the archives. If you know how,
perhaps how join the BAT development team.
The quick-start BAT tutorial is online at:

http://www.screencast.com/t/OcRziCMg

~Stu



On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 6:10 PM, Andrew Long
<ALong at infoscience.otago.ac.nz>wrote:

> Incidentally, I have tried the Blog Analysis toolkit (see blelow) and it
> works fine.
> Grab the RSS feed from the right-hand side of the Twitter website and
> set this as
> the blog URL.
>
>

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