Health Service Journal: Never miss a minister’s verbal gymnastics
Thursday, 3 September 2009, 12:05
HSJ correspondent Dave West has bult a Yahoo! Pipe that searches the Today programme for health-related stories.
Nieman Journalism Lab: NPRbackstory: Finding value in news archives through automation
Tuesday, 5 May 2009, 21:32
"NPRbackstory uses Google’s Hot Trends data to determine what topics people have suddenly started searching for in large numbers. It uses NPR’s API to search the archives, then uses Yahoo Pipes to create an RSS feed that then gets cycled into the NPRbackstory Twitter account."
MediaShift: ProPublica’s ChangeTracker Lets You Watch Government’s Moves | PBS
Saturday, 11 April 2009, 10:27
"ChangeTracker is a project at ProPublica that watches three government websites — Whitehouse.gov, Recovery.gov and Financialstability.gov — for edits, deletions or changes to existing content. Through an RSS feed, Twitter account or daily email digest, ChangeTracker will inform you when a page changes on these sites, and show you what's been added or removed."
Adrian Short: Building a local news mashup with Twitter, TwitterFeed, Delicious, Yahoo! Pipes, Ruby and RSS
Thursday, 19 March 2009, 07:28
Adrian Short shows how he combines local news sources for Sutton, London, including his blog, the local Newsquest-owned paper, the council and local politicians.
ProPublica: Steal Our Code: How to Build Your Own Change-Tracking Feeds
Sunday, 22 February 2009, 09:50
"ChangeTracker is an experimental new tool that watches pages on whitehouse.gov. recovery.gov, and financialstability.gov so you don't have to. …. But ChangeTracker is not a piece of software. It's the output of a series of powerful and mostly free Web-based tools, lovingly connected over the Internet. Here's how to do it yourself so you can track changes on any Web site on the Internets."
