August 26, 2003
Morning
Emmy the puppy woke me up this morning at 4, so we got up and (after a brief constitutional in the back yard) she amused herself with her tennis ball while I read my TopFeeder daily update and lurked in #joiito. I like to wake up to a wash of data.
One of the branches out from my daily update led me to this page of handy RSS feeds. Tracking a FedEx package is brilliant. The unspoken next step is to make a tool which would allow people to setup the pattern matching algorithms to generate the RSS without viewing HTML. Perhaps someone will use the excellent Cocoa webkit to allow users to select a series of posts with their mouse and then programmatically inspect the DOM to figure out what to scrape, as is done with modern end-user vision matching systems.
Posted by Trevor F Smith at August 26, 2003 09:07 AM | TrackBack