Me and a couple co-workers put together a site called zombiemeter.org (http://www.zombiemeter.org/index.php). Basically, the goal is to watch the news for zombie activities and report on them. It's actually been a lot of fun to write it, and should be just as much fun to read it.

It also has an RSS Feed if you're into that kind of thing.

Enjoy!

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Awesome.

Zombies don't exist.

you must be one of those kids who goes around spoiling christmas huh genius

Awesome.

Interesting.

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Zombies don't exist.
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Don't make me screenshot the plaguelands.

The government keeps telling us that zombies don't exist. Do you believe them?

Personally, I'd rather collect evidence and make my own conclusions. That's what this site is about!

Just curious... do you all write up the comments, such as "According to ZombieMeter analysts, these shots through the heads may be an indication that the men had become zombies, and the rest of the information may have been falsified as part of a coverup," for each of those aggregated news articles, or does it do them automatically?

The entire story as written is manual, nothing is automatic.

Is that a serious question or are you making fun of the fact that I'm repetitive? I guess I typically fall into the same format I use for my work-related writing, which is very methodical and redundant and repetitive and redundant and repe... well, you get the point.

[quote author=iago link=topic=17082.msg173726#msg173726 date=1191945240]
The entire story as written is manual, nothing is automatic.

Is that a serious question or are you making fun of the fact that I'm repetitive? I guess I typically fall into the same format I use for my work-related writing, which is very methodical and redundant and repetitive and redundant and repe... well, you get the point.[/quote]

Nope, it was serious. A site I'm working on will need to do some automated analysis of sentences, and classify them as a positive, or negative, response (for or against some topic). If the summaries on your site had been automated, I would have been pretty impressed, and probably would be begging to know how you did it. :P

I've got a few ideas in mind, as to how I'll do what I need to. I've just been busy and haven't reached that point with my site, yet.

Ok, cool. I'm glad I only sound half automated. :P

The difficulty with stories on ZombieMeter.org is that they take a fair amount of creativity. Linking a murder or random environmental event to zombies isn't really something that can be automated, although that would make a pretty interesting project in AI (feeding it possible causes and symptoms of zombies, and let it troll through the news... hmm.....)

[quote author=iago link=topic=17082.msg173730#msg173730 date=1191955948]although that would make a pretty interesting project in AI (feeding it possible causes and symptoms of zombies, and let it troll through the news... hmm.....)
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That's what I thought it was, at first. I was pretty blown away. But now I know it's just you! :P

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That's what I thought it was, at first. I was pretty blown away. But now I know it's just you! :P
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What I meant was, that's exactly what it does, but I'm charging $1000 for the source.

Disclaimer: no guarantee I'll send you anything.

hehe. implementing an aggregator for news content takes only a few minutes to do. my site already grabs news articles from dozens of feeds. the automated categorization of sentences, and stuff, based on their contents, is what i'm trying to do.

i'm using python, and there's several modules out there that supposedly do things similar to this - one, even, that supposedly does exactly this. i have yet to play with them though. i haven't touched my site in a few months. :(

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That's what I thought it was, at first. I was pretty blown away. But now I know it's just you! :P
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What I meant was, that's exactly what it does, but I'm charging $1000 for the source.

Disclaimer: no guarantee I'll send you anything.
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You got a deal. but no guarantee the money will be real or the money is real.

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hehe. implementing an aggregator for news content takes only a few minutes to do. my site already grabs news articles from dozens of feeds. the automated categorization of sentences, and stuff, based on their contents, is what i'm trying to do.

i'm using python, and there's several modules out there that supposedly do things similar to this - one, even, that supposedly does exactly this. i have yet to play with them though. i haven't touched my site in a few months. :(
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I actually wrote a program that categorizes Slashdot stories into science, politics, and IT. It used a Bayesian filter (much like spam filters use). You might be able to adapt it, if you felt inclined. I'm pretty sure I still have the code.

Yeah. I have a Bayesian filter module that I've been waiting to play with. That's one of the things that I've found that might work. :P