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What people are working on

Connecting with Python to feeds (RSS) see Feedparser

(example: taking the text of the latest blog entry & put it into a database... eventually to use as a basis of a visualisation (tech tbd, Processing?))

Spreadsheet data (Data by countries) ?? CIA World Factbook (also as basis for possible Processing based visualisation)

Greasemonkey Add-on -- INSERTS an image in every webpage, and now turning this into a full-fledged Firefox Extension

Producing Synthaesthetic Stimuli: Analog electronics / Sound card driven (piezo)

Generating movies from net data -- turning a search into a template for a narrative / web page. Using scripts to send text through Google Translation (how to automate / script?)

BeautifulSoup
[iCalendar Parser] for Python

Getting the text of a page

http://groups.google.com/group/beautifulsoup/browse_thread/thread/9f6278ee2a2e4564

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+== What people are working on ==
-[[BeautifulSoup]]
+* Connecting with Python to feeds (RSS) see [[Feedparser]]
+(example: taking the text of the latest blog entry & put it into a database... eventually to use as a basis of a visualisation (tech tbd, [[Processing]]?))
+* Spreadsheet data (Data by countries) ?? [[CIA World Factbook]] (also as basis for possible [[Processing]] based visualisation)
+* [[Greasemonkey]] Add-on -- INSERTS an image in every webpage, and now turning this into a full-fledged [[Firefox Extension]]
+* Producing Synthaesthetic Stimuli: Analog electronics / Sound card driven (piezo)
+* Generating movies from net data -- turning a search into a template for a narrative / web page. Using scripts to send text through Google Translation (how to automate / script?)
+* [[BeautifulSoup]]
+* [[http://codespeak.net/icalendar/ iCalendar Parser]] for Python
+Getting the text of a page
+http://groups.google.com/group/beautifulsoup/browse_thread/thread/9f6278ee2a2e4564