NY Times keywords screen shot, Day 2

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   Jeremy Zilar (68 months ago | reply)

   Loving it!

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   TomC (68 months ago | reply)

   very cool.

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   Jeremy Zilar (68 months ago | reply)

   I keep wondering what else you could use instead of numbers.
   Maybe you could output what sections these fall under... thinking...

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   scriptingnews (68 months ago | reply)

   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?

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   Xanada (68 months ago | reply)

   Excellent, Dave. Thanks. Be neat to be able to sort the list by alpha, too.

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   crafterofcode (68 months ago | reply)

   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...

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   suttonhoo (68 months ago | reply)

   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...

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   Edward Vielmetti (68 months ago | reply)

   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).

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   blizzardus (68 months ago | reply)

   Great ideea!

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    nph (68 months ago | reply)

    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

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    smith (68 months ago | reply)

    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.

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    plussed (68 months ago | reply)

    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...?

    --
    http://nytimesriver.com/keywords.html (?)

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    twitter.com/a3munier (68 months ago | reply)

    looks allright to me; rss feed doesnot work?

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    Mukund Mohan (68 months ago | reply)

    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

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    rhhfla1 (68 months ago | reply)

    I like the simplicity. Almost elegant.

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    sarbathory (40 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I've used this photo on my blog:

    programmazioneit.blogspot.com/2010/01/keyword -density-mit...

    citing this source (link).

    Thank you and bye :)

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