Sorry to go back a step to a thread from last month. Our discussion of
Digital History Online took in a wide variety of resources, and I
thought that a site I have been developing might be of some use to
members of this list. It's called ArtRSS and will be found at
http://net18reaching.org/artrss/index.php
It works off a list of close to 120 English language art and new media
RSS feeds. The feeds are from organization, publications, institutions,
but not (at least not yet) from individual artists. It re-reads the
feeds every four hours, caches them, so that they are immediately
available; and it creates a database of just about all of the words
found in the feeds. This makes for extremely fast searches across feeds
and for fast access to individual feeds.
I hope ArtRSS will be useful to people in our field, but on the other
hand your use of it will be useful to me, because it is part of an
ongoing database project which is currently percolating. I've had a
long-stand interest in projects that use databases and this is no
exception. ArtRSS will keep track of the such things as: the terms
queried, the frequency with which they are queried, where the queries
come from geographically, and how often the individual feeds are accessed.
Myron
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Myron Turner
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http://www.mturner.org
http://net18reaching.org/cityscapes
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