Comments on: Technorati’s Current Events

By: BrotherPhil

BrotherPhil — Sat, 22 Nov 2003 14:35:46 +0000

Any news on the RSS/XML front yet?

By: BrotherPhil

BrotherPhil — Sat, 22 Nov 2003 14:34:45 +0000

Any news on the RSS/XML front yet?

By: Jozef

Jozef — Sun, 16 Nov 2003 02:05:08 +0000

David
Whenever I come to links at Technorati , I squint and look closely to see if I recognize any of the bloggers.
It appears that this weekend (15/16 November) Technorati’s Current Events is shelfless.
Real Pitty…
Jozef

By: Charlotte W Hayes

Charlotte W Hayes — Fri, 03 Oct 2003 11:08:30 +0000

You wil notice that I do not even know what url stands for : Am that much of a tyro .
What I WAS drawn toward Blogdom by is the idea of your Commentary ….not the usual rehash of the usual news sources..: Navigating this site did NOT reveal what I needed ( wanted and/or expected . HELP ! Is it there ? !
I have the uttermost contempt for such a great many of the current “news” reporters , that good ,inciteful ( and critical ) commentary would sure be welcome……

By: Ross M Karchner

Ross M Karchner — Wed, 26 Mar 2003 22:26:56 +0000

Any chance of seeing an RSS feed of this data? or is it there, and I’m just missing it.

By: xian

xian — Wed, 26 Mar 2003 10:28:52 +0000

In Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey/Maturin series, the Stephen Maturin character often remarks to the effect of “I’ve never known a village’s judgement to be wrong.” He was speaking of close ship’s companies, and here we are all trying to track a remarkably diffuse community, of course, but there are clusters of closeness and community that direct some of the larger trends, along with the statistical phenomena of a large enough sample and the weather-like trails of events passing through our I/O buffers.

By: John Dowdell

John Dowdell — Sat, 22 Mar 2003 15:20:23 +0000

Thanks David, great stuff, and I’ve been spending time here over the last few days. One thing I’ve been looking for is similar to Google News’ “Sort by Date” within a cluster… I’m trying to find the most recent breaking news which has attracted notice.
Could there be a view into the database which puts the newest referenced addresses (of a minimum popularity) at the top, rather than the most popular recent references to those addresses at the top? The current view seems to successfully show very recent popularity, which is useful for judging overall opinion, but could it also be used to efficiently discover the most recent popular news as well…?
(With the clusters at Google News I have to first navigate to a cluster and then sort-by-date to find new news within that cluster. If we can use the distributed judgment to discover significant new articles across clusters — sorting by timeliness of minimally-referenced addresses rather than by popularity of timely references to addresses of unknown timeliness — then that could be very useful for things I’m trying to learn.)
Regardless, thanks for this… fascinating work!