Comments on: NYT’s ‘Robot in the Newsroom’ sending readers to blogs, TeleRead included http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/nyts-robot-in-the-newsroom-sending-readers-to-blogs-teleread-included/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:56:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Hadrien GARDEUR http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/nyts-robot-in-the-newsroom-sending-readers-to-blogs-teleread-included/comment-page-1/#comment-606116 Hadrien GARDEUR Sun, 04 Nov 2007 19:32:24 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=7485#comment-606116 We're working on RSS feeds right now at Feedbooks. epub support is almost ready but we're working on a full cache system too (text cache done, image cache is next). If the NYT ever use full-content feeds, you'll be able to read them in epub using Feedbooks. Some people actually extract the content of these webpages to get full-content feeds instead of the usual partial feeds. Libprs500 does this and export it to LRF, but I don't think that the extraction should be client-based. If a single person could turn those partial feeds into full-content feeds and repost them, it would enable anyone to read those feeds and transform them to whatever format suits them best. The BBC feeds are already available this way. These websites should provide full-content feeds with ads instead... We’re working on RSS feeds right now at Feedbooks. epub support is almost ready but we’re working on a full cache system too (text cache done, image cache is next). If the NYT ever use full-content feeds, you’ll be able to read them in epub using Feedbooks.

Some people actually extract the content of these webpages to get full-content feeds instead of the usual partial feeds. Libprs500 does this and export it to LRF, but I don’t think that the extraction should be client-based. If a single person could turn those partial feeds into full-content feeds and repost them, it would enable anyone to read those feeds and transform them to whatever format suits them best. The BBC feeds are already available this way. These websites should provide full-content feeds with ads instead…

]]> By: David Rothman http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/nyts-robot-in-the-newsroom-sending-readers-to-blogs-teleread-included/comment-page-1/#comment-606054 David Rothman Sun, 04 Nov 2007 18:08:34 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=7485#comment-606054 Hey, Mike, I'm not sure if it's an absolute original, but the Neologism Alert folks are welcome to do the <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=%22printy%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a" rel="nofollow">usual Google drill</a>. Hey, I hope people follow through and maybe even use it. Perhaps we can make the big time, OED, someday. I'd love for the NY Times to be able to plopped into ANY kind of .epub reader. But it would also be great for the Times to do its own, too, and make it work well with books, magazines, you name it. That's one of .epub's big weaknesses right now---not enough clients, even though FBReader does the job well for .epub content from Feedbooks. I hope a full-strength reader with CSS capabilities will be on the way soon. Trying to recall if the OpenBerg browser plug-in recs CSS. Thanks, David Hey, Mike, I’m not sure if it’s an absolute original, but the Neologism Alert folks are welcome to do the usual Google drill. Hey, I hope people follow through and maybe even use it. Perhaps we can make the big time, OED, someday.

I’d love for the NY Times to be able to plopped into ANY kind of .epub reader. But it would also be great for the Times to do its own, too, and make it work well with books, magazines, you name it. That’s one of .epub’s big weaknesses right now—not enough clients, even though FBReader does the job well for .epub content from Feedbooks. I hope a full-strength reader with CSS capabilities will be on the way soon. Trying to recall if the OpenBerg browser plug-in recs CSS.

Thanks,
David

]]> By: Mike Cane http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/nyts-robot-in-the-newsroom-sending-readers-to-blogs-teleread-included/comment-page-1/#comment-606042 Mike Cane Sun, 04 Nov 2007 17:55:27 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=7485#comment-606042 >>>For those insistent on a printy look, as I’ll call it, the Times could keep the current Microsoft-based reader. Printy?! A new Rothmanism. Wouldn't you want the NYT to also do a version you could plop into your Reader? >>>For those insistent on a printy look, as I’ll call it, the Times could keep the current Microsoft-based reader.

Printy?! A new Rothmanism.

Wouldn’t you want the NYT to also do a version you could plop into your Reader?

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