{"id":8949,"date":"2006-05-22T00:32:32","date_gmt":"2006-05-22T00:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8949"},"modified":"2006-05-22T00:32:32","modified_gmt":"2006-05-22T00:32:32","slug":"your-rss-feed-is-for-the-birds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8949","title":{"rendered":"Your RSS Feed is for the Birds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The flocking behavior of birds (schooling of fish, swarming of insects) have long intrigued and inspired scientists exploring the cybernetics of systems and how they can self-organize. While these ideas are frequently applied in artificial intelligence and robotics, researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee have devised a way of applying flocking to RSS feeds streaming through cyberspace, with similar content automatically grouping together. Explains <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientisttech.com\/article.ns?id=dn9187&#038;feedId=online-news_rss20\" target=\"new\">the piece<\/a> in New Scientist:<\/p>\n<p> &#8220;When a new article appears, software scans it for words similar to those in existing articles and then files the document into an existing flock, or creates a new one. The team has used the system to categorise online news stories from CNN and the BBC. The next step will be to allow people to click on a bird to display its document.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The flocking behavior of birds (schooling of fish, swarming of insects) have long intrigued and inspired scientists exploring the cybernetics of systems and how they can self-organize. While these ideas are frequently applied in artificial intelligence and robotics, researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee have devised a way of applying flocking to RSS &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8949\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Your RSS Feed is for the Birds&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scitech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}