Thanks for that link - exactly what I was looking for btw I know that at Techmeme, Gabe spent years perfecting his story parsing for the 50k+ sites he tracks.

Thanks for that link - exactly what I was looking for btw I know that at Techmeme, Gabe spent years perfecting his story parsing for the 50k+ sites he tracks. Even something that would seem simple such as parsing the date of a story from a webpage has a ridiculous number of permutations that you have to grep for.