Now I was looking for a Ruby or Rails blog in the internet. A special one. This one. Needle in the haystack, that’s what it is.
Finally I remembered having found this blog on http://www.rubycorner.com – open all updated blogs from the past few days and here I am (again).
Thanks for sharing those links!
Another great post from Peter Szinek on his blog on finding good technical information called Needle in the Haystack – Information Overloading 2.0. As usual, very interesting insights into search, the semantic Web, and, of course, bookmarking. We appre…
]]>Personally, I subscribe to over 300 RSS feeds via (my own Rails application) http://www.trawlr.com and use tags and the “favourite” feeds feature to ensure I keep up-to-date depending upon available time. If I only have a few minutes I’ll quickly skim through important feeds; if I have plenty of time I can just go through the entire list (river of news style view) until I get bored!
As for the alternative search interface you noted, a Google search for “web scraping” ruby returns scRUBYt within the first page. So your visual search example isn’t actually any quicker (in fact I’d guess that displaying a Google search result is much quicker than creating the fancy cloud of results).
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