I rolled out the new version of News Sniffer last night. It’s mostly changes to Revisionista:

• The Guardian and Independent World and UK feeds added to Revisionista
• Voting system for Revisionista versions. Recommend interesting revisions for others
• Recommended revisions list and RSS feed
• The Revisionista revision list displays the latest title
• Tweaked the Revisionista layout to be a bit cleaner
• Added some more stats to the front page summary
• The Revisionista search now includes titles
• A few performance tweaks

The search system is a little crummy at the moment. I have plans to add a more advanced searching system in future.

Anyway, get recommending revisions!

Since the Lenin’s Tomb blog linked us, traffic has snowballed. News Sniffer has now appeared on Metafilter.com, Democratic Underground, Digg.com and a whole bunch more.

We even made it onto the BBC Radio 5 Live discussion forums. I imagine they’ll censor that though

UPDATE: Medienbote, Germany’s daily media industry newsletter also featured News Sniffer.

Also, I noticed a link from what looks like an internal BBC development web site (they use MoinMoin as their wiki software ).

I was interviewed by Austria’s public service broadcaster, Österreichischer Rundfunk. The article is here in German. My actual e-mail reply to the journalist follows.
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I’ve made a few changes to fix the completely screwed layout that Internet Explorer users were seeing. Sorry about that.