It's the weekend, and you've been good, so here's a little plaything. Among the features of our new look is the ability to make up a url combing two "tags" to see if we have any articles or videos matching the combination. For instance, you could see how much crossover there is between our coverage of the Labour party and climate change by checking at this url:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/labour+environment/climatechange
Or, and this is one we use a lot ourselves, find the latest comment pieces we have about Google, say:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/google+tone/comment
It also works for individual contributors; just now I checked what our sports writer Richard Williams had offered us recently about cinema, and found, to my delight, a piece about the Argentinian musician Astor Piazzola:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/richardwilliams+film/film
If that's a bit specialised, here are some (hopefully self-explanatory) crowd-pleasers:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/charliebrooker+media/media
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/wildlife+content/gallery
You can mix and match these and other combinations to your heart's content if you can see the pattern. Don't worry if you can't; we don't expect people to understand how to make the combinations, but on the other hand we're happy if you can figure it out. If there's interest, I'll write again explaining the rules.
Best of all, each combination has an rss feed, so if you want to keep up with Marina Hyde's political coverage, but don't want to read her celebrity or sport articles, you can put this in your rss reader:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/profile/marinahyde+politics/politics/rss
and let the latest pieces come to you.
Enjoy.
Comments in chronological order (Total 1 comment)
14 April 2008 4:03PM
Goodness gracious, isn't technology clever (or those that set it up, anyway).
Makes me feel damn old though, and a bit of a Luddite. Just strikes me as so much more complicated (tho' a damn sight cheaper, I admit) than letting my fingers and hands turn the pages, and my eyesight let me know what I might be interested in reading.
I'm sure it's progress, is ushering a new golden age and all that, but, for me, all this choice is doing my head in...