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Playing Here is a website I made based on the MySpace Events Feed Creator. It uses the same process to index MySpace pages for events, but instead of creating feeds by band, it creates feeds by state, city, and venue. It also has a microformatted web interface, email subscriptions, and JavaScript includes for the events. […]
If you’re publishing any sort of complex statistics, it’s often helpful to be able to sort this data. If the data is coming from a database, you can often do this sorting on the server side rather easily, but sorting on the browser side in JavaScript is generally a better user experience. Contrary to what […]
Many people send questions about this site via private email, which is fine. I’m happy to answer these questions. But often the same question is asked by multiple people working on similar projects. In an effort to connect these people, I set up a Make Data Make Sense discussion list. If you have a question […]
What was previously the MySpace Events RSS Creator is now the MySpace Events Feed Creator. As the name change suggests, Atom feeds are now an option. Also, there are now two styles for displaying the event information: “Standard,” or what everything was before, and “Simple,” which removes all redundant information (e.g. MySpace user name is […]
The Comedy Central RSS Creator has been updated, and renamed as the Comedy Central Feed Creator. Feeds are now available in both RSS and Atom. Feeds also now point to Comedy Central’s Flash video player rather than the old Windows Media format videos. The new player works much better.
Also, the new feeds include video descriptions […]
PHP is a popular open source scripting language, but there’s no convenient way to share the source of a live site. It’s easy to make a publicly viewable copy of PHP scripts, but these copies are inevitably neglected when the live copy is updated. Source Browser is an attempt at solving this problem.
Source Browser should […]
By request, MySpace Events RSS Creator does exactly what the name suggests, growing (completing?) the family of MySpace RSS creators here on Make Data Make Sense. As an added bonus, the events are marked up in hCalendar format, so they can be easily imported into various calendar applications. Please point out any problems or potential […]
Feed2Podcast is a neat service that takes RSS feeds, runs them through a text-to-speech engine, and produces podcasts. This service is now combined with the MySpace RSS Creator here on Make Data Make Sense to produce podcasts of MySpace blogs. Standard data access formats (even RSS) allow for this kind of mixing of services. MySpace […]
Welcome to the Make Data Make Sense log! Let’s jump right into talking about making data make sense. We can anticipate creating a lot of data on this log, so how can we ensure it will make sense?
First, with a meaningful name. This is not a “blog” because “blog” doesn’t make sense. What does […]