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 [...]
Posts from ‘December, 2008’
HotStuff 2.0 – new features
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 [...]
Presentation to the TILE Project meeting in London
About 90 minutes ago, I had the pleasure of doing a short presentation to the JISC TILE Project's "Sitting on a gold mine" workshop in London. Unfortunately I wasn't able to present in person, so we had a go doing it all via a video conferencing link. As far as I can tell, [...]
Free book usage data from the University of Huddersfield
I'm very proud to announce that Library Services at the University of Huddersfield has just done something that would have perhaps been unthinkable a few years ago: we've just released a major portion of our book circulation and recommendation data under an Open Data Commons/CC0 licence. In total, there's data for over 80,000 titles [...]
Coming soon, to a blog near here…
Okay — I'm the first to admit I don't blog enough… I still haven't even blogged about how great Mashed Library 2008 was (luckily other attendees have already blogged about it!)
Anyway, unless I get run over by a bus, later on this week I'm going to post something fairly big — well, it's about [...]