So I was thinking, wouldn’t it be nice if the Australian Dictionary of Biography’s ‘born on this day‘ feature could be made available as an RSS feed. Every morning you’d get a new list of biographies delivered direct to your feed reader. And so…
[sounds of xpath wrangling and PHP coding]
here it is.
It’s pretty simple – [...]
discontents
working for the triumph of content over form, ideas over control, people over systems
ADB Online
ADB DIY RSS
Cloudy biographies and portrait walls
With a bit of time to play over Christmas I had a go at applying some of the techniques described at ProgrammingHistorian to the ADB Online. I thought it might be interesting to create some word clouds, both for what they could reveal about the content of the ADB, and to see what they had [...]
