For anyone who's interested in how libraries and librarians are blogging about the swine flu outbreak, I've just added a dedicated RSS feed over on the HotStuff 2.0 blog: http://www.daveyp.com/hotstuff/?p=268
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Quick lunchtime hack-a-thon
It's an ugly bit of coding and definitely a "crappy prototype", but here's a quick & dirty mashup of the blog posts tracked by HotStuff and Google Maps…
www.daveyp.com/cgi-bin/hotstuff/places.pl
The "Harry Potter Effect"
If you look at the overall keyword cloud for HotStuff 2.0, you can see librar* bloggers like to talk about libraries, books, reading, books and libraries.
When some things are more popular than others, this gives rise to Tim Spalding's "Harry Potter Effect" — everyone's got the HP books on their shelves, so, if you're not [...]
Another day, another bit of code…
I've added another bit of code to HotStuff 2.0 to try and locate blogs with similar content. In theory, the suggestions should improve as more posts are consumed (the good ol' Network Effect) as this gives the code more data to find matches on.
For those interested in such things, the code compares the word [...]
HotStuff 2.0 – new features
I've added a couple of new features to HotStuff 2.0 today…
1) "Top blogs" for specific words — this locates the blogs which contain the highest ratio of posts containing that word (matching on the common word stem). For example, currently The Kept-Up Academic Librarian is the top blog for universities and Phil Bradley is [...]
HotStuff 2.0 – live and kicking
As promised/threatened just before Christmas, the new version of HotStuff is now up and running: www.daveyp.com/hotstuff/
It's still early days, so it'll be a week or two before it really starts to pick up on the hot new topics in the biblioblogosphere. So far, it's sucked in just under 1,000 blog posts and found nearly [...]
HotStuff 2.0
After killing off Hot Stuff due to a server upgrade, I find that I'm kinda missing it!
So, I've decided to have a second stab at the problem and this time the code is much cleaner and faster. In particular, I'm using Bloglines to handle fetching all of the feeds and then grabbing the new [...]
what do bibliobloggers talk about?
As one final "hurrah" from the Hot Stuff service, I thought it would be fun to put all of the data into Wordle. Every day, for the last 2 years or so, my code has saved away the top 100 words from all of the new blog posts from around 500 librarian blogs…
http://wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/109981/biblioblogosphere
…so, from [...]
Hot Stuff is cooling down
Due to an upcoming server upgrade, the Hot Stuff service will be winding down at the end of next week. If you're using the widget on your blog (and there's only one blog out there that I'm aware of), you'll need to consider removing it.