Blog: Team Aggregator
Analyzing News with Graphs and Tag Clouds
Tools That Show What's Happening in a Glance
Tools That Show What's Happening in a Glance
One of the features that sets the Managing News system apart from other aggregators is that it makes it easy to act on information. It does this by showing you the big picture of what’s going on within the system over different timeframes.
The latest graph we plan to integrate into Managing News is a line graph that will show the terms (with the highest and lowest rate of change) that have risen or fallen fastest over a period of time. This will quickly show you the newest hot topics and what is already old news. A big benefit of this graph is that it will cut out issues that are always talked about in your field.
Unclogging the Pipes: Improving Managing News' Feed Load
Getting wget and cron onto the same page
Getting wget and cron onto the same page
Managing News is starting to move past proof of concept, and we’ve officially begun working to improve its core performance. Earlier this week RH Reality Check – the latest organization we’ve customized the tool for - told us that Managing News wasn’t pulling in new content from RSS feeds as often as it should have been. In some cases feeds hadn’t been updated in a week. And an aggregator with week-old news certainly doesn’t enhance an organizations communications capacity. Here's an image of one of its feeds "thinking."
When Alex looked into the issue, he found another one – duplicate feeds. Luckily what at first seemed like two big problems was fixed with just one tiny change (and a lot of Alex’s brainpower, of course).