NY Times keywords screen shot, Day 2

Here' the story that goes with the screen shot...

www.scripting.com/stories/2007/10/18/aNewViewOfNyTimesNew...

And here's the live page...

nytimesriver.com/keywords.html

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silencematters says:

Loving it!
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

TomC says:

very cool.
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

silencematters says:

I keep wondering what else you could use instead of numbers.
Maybe you could output what sections these fall under... thinking...
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

Did you see the tool-tips? If you drag your mouse over the numbers you get the headlines.

I want the expand-collapse code for Scripting so I can use it in this application.

I should certainly output OPML so others can build off that. I will do it, maybe during some of the more tedious sessions today?
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

Xanada says:

Excellent, Dave. Thanks. Be neat to be able to sort the list by alpha, too.
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

crafterofcode says:

Looks good! It'd be good if there was a way of also seeing the other tags for each story. An obvious way would be to put them in the tool-tip along with the story title, though that'd get pretty noisy if there's a large number of tags. Maybe the other tags could be included if you do incorporate the expand/collapse feature? Making those tags themselves links to where they appear on your page would be a great way of navigating around...
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

suttonhoo says:

cool beans.

what I wanna know is: how frequently do they synch their search engine against their database? I'm frequently frustrated when I try to search up a story that I've just read in the morning (paper) edition, only to find it hasn't indexed yet. usually all's well by later in the day, but one would expect things to be hottest when the story first hits -- they should know that and synch sooner than later.

sorry. needed to get that off my chest. I feel better now. ;)

I work in ecommerce and you see definite dollars attached to the first flush of a story breaking. NYT probably doesn't care in quite the same way an online merchant does...
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

Edward Vielmetti says:

Dave -

Hey, if you extract the slugword out from the URL in those pages, you could make it even more useful than numbers. e.g. instead of 1 being a link to

www.nytimes.com/2007/10/18/technology/18cnd-n okia.html?ex...,

you could extract "nokia" out of the "18cnd-nokia.html" URL string and put "nokia" there.

then it reads as follows:

company reports: nokia dow bank nokia chip google-web ...
baseball: arod colorado base ...

they are going to be a little cryptic, but if you are lazy about parsing them and just show whatever they paper uses internally for slugs, regular readers will get an idea of what is going on.

(I used to read Reuters slugs all the time, fastest way to read a news feed).
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

blizzardus says:

Great ideea!
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

nph says:

Nice idea; This could also be a great candidate for a tag cloud (or for one of the data representation methods shown at Digg labs)

Cheers, Peter Huesken
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

smith says:

I think a great use would be to add a cookie, so it knew I was coming back and then allow me to "nix" certain categories (like wedding announcements) that I never want to see.
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

plussed says:

Pretty cool.

Ideally there'd be a good way to remove the ordering among things that had the same number of references. That is, reading it quickly as a human it looks like Armament and Defense had more hits than Advertising and Marketing. Maybe add a colored background to make groupings more obvious, or box them, or lead with the references and put the keywords on the right...?

--
Seen on nytimesriver.com (?)
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

twitter.com/a3Pixitesmunier says:

looks allright to me; rss feed doesnot work?
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

Mukund Mohan says:

Dave
Great.
What would be awesome:

If you can marry this with Google Trends so I can see the keywords China and India and see the trending of the words.

Second Next to the tool tip can you add the date & title of the news?
thanks
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

rhhfla1 says:

I like the simplicity. Almost elegant.
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

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