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BlogBrowser Update
Posted by Mike on February 9, 2007
I hope you’ve enjoyed the BlogBrowser that we launched a couple of weeks ago. It was fun to build and I use it all the time to see what’s going on. Today, we’re launching the next part of the BlogBrowser: news.
You may need to refresh or empty your cache to see it, but you should see 2 new tabs, one for Blogs and one for News. The news tab behaves just like the blogs did - it pulls news from GoErie, WICU, WSEE, WJET, Google News, Yahoo News and several others. I’ve been testing for awhile and it’s neat to use and nice to be able to get multiple views of the same story from various media outlets.
Special note to WSEE and WJET/FOX 66: Please create RSS feeds of your news stories. Scraping your content is annoying and because you don’t have the date of publication in each item, I’ve noticed your stories tend to be gathering at the bottom. Use the contact form if you need help setting this up.
Posted by Mike at February 9, 2007 6:36 PM
Comments
couple things i noticed:
1) great job. thanks for providing this tool and for taking the time to make it.
2) on win/ie7, the tabs at top are only showing the top half of the tab.
3) what about a "refresh" button for the left frame? when it first came out, i clicked on the logo up top, and even pressed f5 to get the new items on the left, but ultimately i had to do a hard refresh to get the new items. just a thought.
4) keep up the good work. i only wish to be as cool as you.
Posted by: ron at February 9, 2007 9:21 PM
Ok, I'll add in the refresh, that's a good idea.
Can you email me a screenshot of the tabs in IE7?
Thanks!
Posted by: Mike at February 10, 2007 8:48 AM
Add a
link and graphic to your site to show that you're from Erie. Meet new peeps, share you thoughts on our fair city, do whatever you like.
