http://www.jgrosman.com/jblog One Byte at a Time Sat, 30 Aug 2008 06:55:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Based on a request by Radio Sweethearts to create a completely random NPR podcast, I created NPR Unbound. It does basically that. I can't go back to 1987, unfortunately, because NPR only started encoding in MP3 format in 2005. Each day will generate a new random podcast. This way podcast feed ... http://www.jgrosman.com/jblog/?p=36 I made two big changes and a few minor tweaks to the all tweets app. The first thing I did was switch from using the search.twitter.com atom API to using their JSON API. The big difference was that the JSON output includes the correct date and time for each tweet. I ... http://www.jgrosman.com/jblog/?p=32 One thing that NPR doesn't provide is contextual keywords for its stories. Stories can be assigned to topics, series, columns, and programs. Certain music stories are assigned to artist and genre pages. That doesn't really give you an idea of what the story is about. The title, teaser, and miniteaser ... http://www.jgrosman.com/jblog/?p=29 All Tweets Considered : An NPR Twitter Browser Navigation I used the NPR API list interface to get the NPR programs, topics, and people. These are the same lists that the NPR Query generator uses to populate the different categories. Details can be found here. The results are returned in xml, which ... http://www.jgrosman.com/jblog/?p=14 Welcome to my very first public blog. I doubt there will be many people reading this, so I'll keep it short. I'm just beginning to do some side projects on the web. I needed a place to hold them, and a place to talk about them.  Watch this blog for any ... http://www.jgrosman.com/jblog/?p=1