News on Tap: Automated Newsfeed Generator
In the Chapter 4 section "Guess What? Publishing RSS Newsfeeds with Informa," we discussed an API called Informa. Informa allows you to create RSS feeds, by adding individual news items to a feed, and to generate an XML file of the desired RSS flavor. The hard part about creating a feed programmatically is writing the text summary. A completely automated newsfeed generator would be extremely useful, especially if the text summary was also written by the automated process. Currently, most of this work is done manually.
There are two difficult tasks here. The first problem is in correctly identifying the ...
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