Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:
They are off the air for now, following my spam
complaint.
I can still access
http://www.wikiverse.org/
I think their application is interesting and it's a shame they send
spam to advertize it. Apparently they combine each Wikipedia article
with relevant news headlines. I've been doing some news headline
harvesting and I wonder if such a database could be released as open
contents. Or is anybody doing this already? It's really similar to
an RSS aggregator, but you also generate RSS feeds from sources that
don't provide one by processing HTML web pages. Can O'Reilly's
Meerkat database be downloaded as open contents, just like DMOZ?
Is this a technical issue that should move to wikitech-l or a
political one, and where should it be discussed?
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Lars Aronsson (lars(a)aronsson.se)
Aronsson Datateknik