Fuzzy Link Bot - http://atomboy.isa-geek.com/flb/ is a Flex app I wrote to visualize the relationships between people, places, and bands that are mentioned in music news articles. I have a script that checks a bunch of RSS feeds every hour. It downloads the text of articles, tries to strip out the ads and navigational fluff to get just the content, and sends the creamy center of every article to the Calais (http://www.opencalais.com/) service. Calais sends back its best guess at who what where was mentioned in the article and my script stuffs the results into a database.
If two things…