Re: [IxDA Discuss] Good strategies for dynamically organizing content from multiple automated feeds

2009-02-14 Thread gail swanson
Great info everybody. Thanks! I've some good leads on what I need to research and some options that are available. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=38635

[IxDA Discuss] Good strategies for dynamically organizing content from multiple automated feeds

2009-02-12 Thread Gail Swanson
I've got a design problem that I've been trying to solve for some time now, and just can't seem to find the answer to. Perhaps all of you out in UX-land have some ideas. I've been working on a project that has an established taxonomy for its content (artlcles, videos, blogs, etc.) but the big

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Good strategies for dynamically organizing content from multiple automated feeds

2009-02-12 Thread Shimone Samuel
Have a look at Yahoo Pipes: http://pipes.yahoo.com With Pipes you can take an input (your RSS feed for instance), run a query on it and output the results as a new feed. Provide this custom feed for your users and you have categorization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Good strategies for dynamically organizing content from multiple automated feeds

2009-02-12 Thread Katie Albers
Well, my gut reaction is that -- at least for text-based content -- you're down to the content itself. I'm assuming here that you *are* dealing with news. If there are authors associated with the content, then generally you'll find they're associated with a certain type of content (some

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Good strategies for dynamically organizing content from multiple automated feeds

2009-02-12 Thread Angel Marquez
Presentation Layer/ ViewUse a xslt. http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt Server Side Have an IA setup like this: Server 1 2009 Febraury 01_Category_01 01_article_01.xml 02_Category_02 03_Category_03 Server 2 Aggregator Script On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Katie Albers

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Good strategies for dynamically organizing content from multiple automated feeds

2009-02-12 Thread Angel Marquez
*Presentation Layer/ View* Use a xslt. http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt *Server Side* Have IA setup like this: *Server 1: Content Server* 2009 Febraury 01_Category_01 01_article_01.xml 01_article_02.json 02_Category_02 03_Category_03 Other or Miscellaneous Source Compare

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Good strategies for dynamically organizing content from multiple automated feeds

2009-02-12 Thread Angel Marquez
ooops. I fat fingered that one. I'll write it up in a text editor and then paste it in a sec. Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Good strategies for dynamically organizing content from multiple automated feeds

2009-02-12 Thread Joseph Dombroski
Hi Gail, I've used Naive Bayes classification [1] to accomplish similar things in the past. The method can be used to sort blocks of text into predefined categories (your taxonomy) based on word frequencies (in the items that come from automatic feeds). It's a pretty popular approach for

Re: [IxDA Discuss] Good strategies for dynamically organizing content from multiple automated feeds

2009-02-12 Thread Daniel Gross
Discuss] Good strategies for dynamically organizing content from multiple automated feeds I've got a design problem that I've been trying to solve for some time now, and just can't seem to find the answer to. Perhaps all of you out in UX-land have some ideas. I've been working on a project