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Deprecation!

Official RSS feeds from the Harvard Crimson and Haaretz means an end to screen-scraping.

Hardcore Suicide Prevention

The "disengagement" of Israel from its settlements in the Gaza strip is less than two weeks away, and virtually all of the articles in Haaretz are focused on what might be a pivotal event in the history of both Israel and Palestine. While I thought the televised cursing of Prime Minister Sharon so that he [...]

Haaretz RSS is Broken (Again)

The Haaretz RSS feeds give me the most trouble out of all of my RSS feeds. They have not been working for the last few weeks, since Haaretz implemented site registration. While it occurs to me that I suggested such a move (oops), it makes generating RSS feeds much more difficult (the Perl script would [...]

Haaretz' Talkback Experiment

While much of the internet is still talking about the Los Angeles Times' aborted "Wikitorial" experiment, nobody seems to have noticed that the Israeli newspaper Haaretz (which I scrape for RSS feeds, since the official feeds are only accessible in Hebrew) recently added a "Talkback" feature to their website, following the lead of other Israeli [...]