Super Cloud
I finally managed to aggregate all the news-machine feeds into one using FeedCombine then feed it into ZoomClouds via Feedburner (long url problem again)
Now I have a Tagcloud that tracks all five keyword cluster units - if they are watched over time they should show growth and development. Time to write a script that pulls down the required xml from ZoomClouds everyniight methinks and stash it away. Once I have enough examples I can figure out what to do next - SQL or a bunch of awk/perl scripts that do simple data extraction and analysis of the data.
Anyway - ther "SuperCloud" has been added to the sidebard - it just aggregates the top 100 extracted phrases from an aggregation of 5 news feeds, each of which filters 4500 news sources on up to 20 keyword - and gives a cloud view.
I am wondering whether to place the original keywords onto the ZoomCloud stoplists - it will alllow the auto-discovery easier by excluding stuff that I already know about.
Tags: tags, tagging, tagclouds, rss, feedburner, google news, feedcombine, zoomclouds, news-machine