SpaceBuzz 0.4

It is funny how some things work out. A year ago to the day I released SpaceBuzz 0.3. Today I have released version 0.4.

SpaceBuzz is a program I wrote which monitors the tags used in astronomy blogs and then attempts to find out what are hot topics right now. My latest addition is to display graphs showing the popularity of each tag by week over the past year. For instance, this plot shows the popularity of the tag Moon.

Moon
The popularity of the tag Moon on astronomy blogs in the past year CREDIT: Stuart/Spacebuzz
There are 176 blogs included in SpaceBuzz. If you write one and it isn't included, let me know. If you have a blog and are still not using tags yet, please consider giving them a try.

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Posted in astro blog by Stuart on Sunday 03rd Jan 2010 (12:55 GMT) | 3 Comments | Permalink

Comments: SpaceBuzz 0.4

I'm wondering if you would release this application as an open source programme.

I would like to test it and add some language support, like Chinese etc..

Posted by buzz on Sunday 03rd Jan 2010 (14:04 UTC)

gravatarBuzz,most of the words are from the blogs themselves. Are you suggesting translating the blog posts and tags?

I'm reluctant to make it open source because it isn't well written (I wrote it!) and a proper computer programmer could probably write it in an afternoon anyway. Also, I don't have time to dedicate to maintaining a developer community.

Posted by Stuart on Sunday 03rd Jan 2010 (14:33 UTC)

Dear Stuart

Congrat for Spacebuzz project!!!

If possible, I would like to add my blog about Astronomy and in particular comets and asteroids news:

http://remanzacco.blogspot.com

Thanks,

Ernesto

Italy

Posted by Ernesto on Sunday 03rd Jan 2010 (16:50 UTC)

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