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Re: Dapper just blew my mind

jonesieboy — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 17:12:51 -0000

Nice idea Peter. I look forward to seeing the results of your labours :)

Re: Dapper just blew my mind

Peter — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 21:45:29 -0000

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.

Re: Dapper just blew my mind

jonesieboy — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 07:05:57 -0000

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.

Re: Dapper just blew my mind

Ewan McIntosh — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 06:38:30 -0000

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.

Re: Dapper just blew my mind

jonesieboy — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 14:59:52 -0000

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?

Re: Dapper just blew my mind

jonesieboy — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 14:29:10 -0000

LOL - it's wisnae me :)

Re: Dapper just blew my mind

David Gilmour — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 13:41:14 -0000

I can see this is going to blow a hole in my weekend. You're getting the blame when the family complain...