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!

The latest News Sniffer project went live on Sunday: Revisionista. It tracks changes in corporate news articles and marks the differences. So you can choose a BBC news article and see how it’s changed since it was first created. Most changes are on breaking new articles which get updated as more information becomes available, but some changes are rather telling of policy.

Currently only the BBC is monitored, but it’s pretty easy for me to add support for any site with an RSS feed (which I’ll be doing soon). Suggestions of what sites to monitor?

Some examples:
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