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Jonesieblog: Dapper just blew my mind

  • David Gilmour · 3 years ago
    I can see this is going to blow a hole in my weekend. You're getting the blame when the family complain...
  • jonesieboy · 3 years ago
    LOL - it's wisnae me :)
  • jonesieboy · 3 years ago
    Here's another quick bit of candy: an rss feed of the edubloggers that Ewan links to in his sidebar. Now you can keep on top of Ewan's top education blogs without actually having to read his blog ;)

    What do you think Ewan - too much?
  • Ewan McIntosh · 3 years ago
    Well, there's a lot more that's not on the sidebar. We are in the process of putting together feeds based around certain types of Excel blogs rather than the feed of the whole thing - a bit OTT for most users. We're also looking at things other than blogs, of course, which mostly carry RSS feeds so it'll be an interesting river of information. It's certainly a useful tool for keeping track of things from outside the admin dashboard of the blog engine.
  • jonesieboy · 3 years ago
    Sure Ewan - it'll be great to get some more sophisticated RSS feeds from exc-el. I just used the exc-el front page as an example of the way Dapper allows you to scrape data from Web pages in a semantic manner.

    Here's a feed of the blogs listed in the East Lothian section of scotedublogs, as another example.
  • Peter · 3 years ago
    Hio

    I wrote a program that created an OPML file for all the links tagged "scot-edu-blog" on del.icio.us but it'd be nicer to use something like dapper :)

    As always I've not finished the OPML think but will post about it when I do. THanks for the heads up about dapper though. looks good.
  • jonesieboy · 3 years ago
    Nice idea Peter. I look forward to seeing the results of your labours :)