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Issuefeed, an introduction

Issuefeed.net summarizes the content of a set of sites. Enter a list of Websites and give the list a name. Issuefeed.net finds the sites' feeds, analyzes them, and outputs a substantive summary of all the sites in key words, ranked according to specificity and frequency measures. It works for sites in English or Dutch. Read more

About issuefeed.net
Issuefeed.net summarizes the content of a set of sites. Enter a list of Websites and give the list a name. Issuefeed.net finds the sites' feeds, analyzes them, and outputs a substantive summary of all the sites in key words, ranked according to specificity and frequency measures. It works for sites in English or Dutch.

More specifically, Issuefeed.net is a site feed analysis tool consisting of a feed scraper, a feed remixer, and a pos-tagging algorithmic machine, with a ranking mechanism. In essence, it is a substance gisting machine for multiple feed analysis. On the front end of issuefeed.net are 'featured' outputs, made by issuefeed.net analysts. Users can create their own feed remixes. (User-made issue feeds are not featured on issuefeed.net.)

The ranking mechanism is a loglikelihood algorithm which compares the key words in a particular time interval to all other key words in the channel previous to that time interval. Only key words with a deviance in the 95th significance percentile are shown in the list. On mouse over you can see the computed critical value for each issue.

Issuefeed.net seeks to emphasize the rise of multiple source sets or meta-sources, such as aggregators, engines, recommendation systems. The contribution made by issuefeed.net to meta-source appreciation is two-fold. The software shows sources which have contributed to the presence of a result. Additionally, if one removes a particular source, or certain feed items, the results are updated. Thus one may view and also tinker with what is behind the engine.

See also: How to make a source set.