2009 107

The printable version is no longer supported and may have rendering errors. Please update your browser bookmarks and please use the default browser print function instead.

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