Wolfgang Schwarz

Wow! Thank you very much. I think that this is one of my favourite feeds this far (and of course the best). For some reason I haven't been a big friend of feeds but this seems to change everything. ;)

It's just so great to open your browser and notice how many new papers there are. Heh.. the only thing I really need is an effective cognitive filter.

This is great. Thanks very, very much, Wo (and Dave)!

Thank you VERY much. This is a wonderful resource. I am curious about the 'something even bigger' and will look forward to whatever that might be.

Hi Wo,

This is great... fab stuff. Thanks for getting it running!

One quirk: when I set the rss as a live bookmark in firefox, it gives me a list of the dates of updates. That's great, but when I click through, it just says "Hi there". Not sure why that it happening.

It's not too much of a stress, though, since the feed itself has the relevant data, and it interacts nicely with bloglines.

Thanks, yes, there's nowhere to click through to, as the page itself doesn't officially exist yet. I guess I could make each paper its own feed entry, a la del.icio.us. But I think I'll just leave it like that for the meantime.

Thank you thank you thank you!

Hey, I'm really pleased that this works so well (using NetNewsWire on OS X). Thanks for making it available since OPP tanked.

Thanks a lot for the great effort.

The use of a simple, minimalist rss feed like this is vastly different from "something .. bigger that will hopefully go live very soonish".

Thank you, thank you, thank you! When the something bigger thing comes along, let me know so that I can advertise over at PEA Soup.

A grateful reader thanks you for the rescue of OPP. The RSS feed in Yahoo now only delivering a hacker's message, but other RSS feeds are OK.

Thanks! I was wondering if you could share the source of the script - I'd like to setup something like this for Polish philosophical pages (which are only of Polish interest), and that would probably require some tweaks in the script.

Hey Marcin, the script is unfortunately rather hard to set up, and you'd definitely need a dedicated Linux server. (Among other things, I run Mozilla on Xvfb to parse HTML pages.) It is also still under heavy development, so I'd rather not spread the code at this stage.

That said, I've started classifying papers by topics, and classifying by language could be a natural extension of this. In the system that will soon go live, it will probably also be possible to get a feed that tracks exactly the philosophers you want to track. So hopefully there will not be much of a need to set up several different versions.

Hm, if that requires a dedicated server, it's not an option for me. BTW, I thought of using some light-weight webscraping (no Mozilla involved, only lynx - that is definitely easier). Probably using a text browser for the visually impaired (it must deliver the text for the speech synth) could be an option as well.

But if you want to setup it with categories, I could probably be of some help with adding non-English philosophers (German, Polish and Spanish, as I can speak these languages to some extent).

Thanks for the offer -- I'll keep it in mind. The problem with lynx etc. is to extract author, title and abstract from HTML papers. You mostly don't know anymore what was in large font and bold and centered, etc.

I love this feed, but I think there's a minor bug. On November 10, it found "On the structure of explanatory unification: The case of geographical economics" and attributed it to a philosopher named P.O. Box instead of its true authors, Uskali Mäki and Caterina Marchionni.

Thanks Ben. I also noticed the P.O. Box, but too late. Most RSS readers only look for new posts, so even if I fix the mistake here on the server, everyone would still see it in their reader. Not much I can do, except trying to prevent such mistakes for the future.

I'm currently planning to try out a few new extraction algorithms that will hopefully make fewer mistakes. I will also open source the code sometime in 2010, when that is done.