[aranpura]

Progressive politics news for the small screen!

These are both sites I read daily, and I finally got around to writings Perl scripts to Palm-ize them. I use iSilo and will include my setup notes, but any spidering program (Plucker, etc) will work.

The Nation. This is a great magazine with quite a lot of content -- a beefy read, but an extremely worthwhile one.

http://aranpura.beevomit.org/palm/parseNation.pl
Link depth 1, follow off-site links, no images, process tables but include only 1 level up from the innermost, unfold top-level tables, and ignore pixel width specifications

The News Dissector. Danny Schacter's wonderful media critique blog, a great way to stay on top of both the news and the news outlets.

http://aranpura.beevomit.org/palm/parseMediachannel.pl
Link depth 0, no images

Let's remain a well-informed segment of the electorate. Wield your PDAs mercilessly!

--Ashish Ranpura.
http://www.ranpura.com