... It is probably going to move upwards from the link sifting that I am doing at the moment Bernard, Grepping for /blog/ or /weblog/ seems to work on some...
John McCormac
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Mar 29, 2005 2:23 pm
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... Just thinking john, something that might decrease the work the spider has to do is search for a predefined directory first. Most blogs I have seen seem to...
... Just from reading the docs, it is based on Magpierss - this is the program that does the main work. Magpierss stores cached sort of RSS versions of blogs...
John McCormac
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Mar 29, 2005 1:02 pm
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Lilina isn't that strong really, it just caches aggregated content locally (no DB) but it shows what can be done with the Magpie RSS engine. Feedonfeeds is a...
... Not on this index yet Bernie, This is just checking for blogs on the main index. The blog search will have its own list of blogs and sites and be separate...
John McCormac
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Mar 29, 2005 12:48 pm
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Tipperary Institute could host the aggregate scraped from Irish blogs if the resultant project was open to all users. I'd like to see the raw files grabbed by...
Bernard Goldbach
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Mar 29, 2005 12:43 pm
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Do the spiders look at Live Journal sites? Are they counting the journals on boards.ie? Bernie [using Nokia 9500 on a vintage tractor]...
Bernard Goldbach
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Mar 29, 2005 12:35 pm
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There are lots of useful tools for aggregating blogs (e.g. Lilina which I just set up at www.boards.ie/aggregator to test it out, feedonfeeds, etc.), but as...
The main WhoisIreland.com Irish search engine spiders are running here and I've just been checking a few keywords on the raw search database. This part of the...
John McCormac
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Mar 29, 2005 11:23 am
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... Twenty, you were spot on. I'm now replying using Firefox. There was a manual proxy set in Firefox, as soon as I unchecked it, I got in. I have the proxy...
That is really weird. Tried restarting the computer? Not much of a tip but maybe worth a try. Also check there are no proxy settings in Firefox. Like I said...
... Twenty, thanks for the info. I am using Firefox 1.02 (the latest version that you linked to in your post). What version of OS X are you running (just to...
... all in Firefox on the Mac .... I'm writing this now using Safari (ugh!) - just to clarify further, I disabled all Firefox extensions, re-started Firefox...
Tom Raftery says, "I joined ... (but) the site doesn't appear at all in Firefox on the Mac .... I had to use Safari to log in and view it. I don't like Safari,...
... Alas, the Trib is not very open with its source so maybe you could post some or all of the article where those of us who are far from the land, so to...
The first Yahoo! 360 blogs are starting to appear on the left coast of the US. We should have invitations for those wanting one in this group before the end of...
Seems that the Sunday Tribune is running a blogosphere column and a few high profile blogs got mentioned. It is down near the obits section of the paper. ...
John McCormac
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Mar 28, 2005 12:01 pm
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I saw the article, penned by "Joe Bloggs" and it sounds like Twenty Major is on for a lot of follow-up citations by the Tribune. You've been cited on Fanning,...