8 years ago The Guardian proudly announced that they were providing full-text feeds of, well, everything: Today guardian.co.uk rolled out a major upgrade to the RSS feeds. Our feeds now contain the full content of each article so that you can take guardian.co.uk with you where...

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So what an exciting first few weeks back we’ve had! We started off nice and easy, picking up all the support requests that had been filed over the Christmas break and, after a suggestion from Kelvin last year, put together a demo of an augmented reality map of the University campus using Layar (which I will post more about later). We also started pr...

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The other day some idiot suggested micropayments for online newspapers (single page version here). Apparently it has only taken five years or so for everyone to forget that this was exactly the model many papers were adopting online in th...

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Stef Magdalinski has done something very clever. Fresh from his work on theyworkforyou.com, he’s set up a proxy to the news.bbc.co.uk website which scans the content for capitalised phrases and acronyms and replaces them with links to

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Interestingly Local News (“your worldwide local newspaper”, as it calls itself) has a “gossip” page powered by Localfeeds. Select your location, hit the “gossip” tab and you get what they call “News from local bloggers…”. News? From bloggers? More like inane prattle. This may be taking the “blogging as jour...

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