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  • Ian Cairns
    May 12, 2008
    Managing News Maps China Earthquake and Helps Identify Citizen Reporter
    After the earthquake hit yesterday, a big red dot appeared over China on the Managing News dashboard map that dwarfed all the other dots around the globe. Next to it in the tag cloud, I saw a few new terms in red that I knew were probably related...
  • Eric Gundersen
    Apr 16, 2008
    War vs. War: Funny Keyword Accuracy
    Last week I spent some time reviewing the accuracy of our keyword tracking on one of our development versions of Managing News. We’ve been testing auto tagging engines, from our internal artificial intelligence system and more recently Calais...
  • Young Hahn
    Aug 14, 2007
    4 comments
    How an IE Bug Turned Into a Feature
    Getting Tag Storm Compatible, Lined Up, and Working with Drupal
    While I was redesigning our website, I decided to redo our blog’s tag cloud. I wrote an override to the default tagadelic theme function that added randomized positioning to each tag using inline CSS. Once overlayed on a nice background image our...
  • Bonnie Bogle
    Jun 20, 2007
    6 comments
    Analyzing News with Graphs and Tag Clouds
    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...
  • Eric Gundersen
    May 30, 2007
    3 comments
    Fact Checking Political Propaganda with Hyper-Video
    Adding realtime metadata to videos
    Below is a two minute video clip from Bill O'Reilly's May 11th episode of The Talking Points Memo. No, our beliefs haven't done an about face. I was experimenting with Viddler.com and decided to use it to fact check O'Reilly's show. I went in and,...
  • Bonnie Bogle
    Nov 18, 2005
    Amazon.com Starts Tagging
    I just bought a book on Amazon.com and saw the site’s latest feature  - tags! When you view some items such as books or cds (tags haven’t been  incorporated throughout the entire site yet), there’s an area where you can add a tag. And if...
  • Ian Ward
    Jun 6, 2005
    People powered sorting! Ajax and autocomplete on Drupal
    Free tagging lets users tag blog posts or other types of content freely based on their perspective or need, while the autocomplete feature lets users see what other's used before them as tags, allowing them to use the same or be more exacting....
  • Ian Ward
    May 31, 2005
    1 comment
    Free tagging and more new features on 4.6+
    We're now on Drupal 4.6 on the Development Seed Blog, as I mentioned in a previous post.  I'd just like to point out a few key features I am really enjoying and look forward to using more.  The ability to do folksonomy social or free...