Newssniffer
Apologies to my occasional visitor for lack of posting. I’ve been busy with a couple of projects, the first of which will be going live soon, nothing major but every little helps. Watch this space.
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BBC license fee payers may be interested in Newssniffer.
It has two main parts Revisionista:
Revisionista monitors news websites and detects when articles change. The versions are viewable and the changes are highlighted.
It currently monitors a few key feeds from the BBC News website, The Guardian and The Independent. Feel free to suggest other feeds to us.
And Watch your mouth:
‘Watch Your Mouth’ monitors the BBC’s ‘Have Your Say’ website and detects when comments get censored.
The Have Your Say site has two moderation modes: full and reactive. In full mode, all comments are checked before being published. In reactive, all comments from registered users appear immediately and can be moderated later.
We can only detect comments that were removed. We cannot detect comments that never appeared in the first place. This would appear to limit us to reactive mode comments, but fully moderated comments are still often censored.
I’ve had a fair few comments on ‘Have your say’ censored rejected - despite my being very careful to not break the BBC’s ‘house rules’. There’s a lot of it going on. The following graphic is from a currently running HYS ‘Can Labour recover from the latest defeat?’.
The HYS moderators don’t seem as harsh as they used to be - or maybe I’ve just learned how to steer comments round the thought police better.
Hopefully someone will find the Newssniffer link useful. And a big thanks to by John Leach the chap who made it.
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It looks like Gordon Brown will get no peace on his holiday. Good.
