Last week I spent a day playing with the screen scraping website Scraperwiki with a class of MA Online Journalism students and a local blogger or two, led by Scraperwiki’s own Anna Powell-Smith. I thought I might take the opportunity to try to explain what screen scraping is through the functionality of Scraperwiki, in journalistic terms. It’s pretty good.
This week’s Something for the Weekend is a little different, as it’s a tool for newsgathering rather than publishing. But what a tool. iMacro is a plugin for Firefox, with paid versions for Internet Explorer or standalone use. There’s a lot of corporate/technical jargon on the website (“create solutions for web automation”), because, like some of the best web tools
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