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The Best Show on WFMU => Show Discussion => Topic started by: kleinsbeer on September 13, 2014, 03:41:18 PM

Title: Introducing the Newbridge Navigator
Post by: kleinsbeer on September 13, 2014, 03:41:18 PM
Hey everyone,

I've been a big fan of the show since I was first made aware of its existence a few years ago. I've been trying out a web development framework and decided to make the website subject something that has brought me so much joy over the years - The Best Show.

You can search for an episode, view episodes by appearing characters, queue up episodes in a playlist and more. It's still a work in progress: there are still quite a few entries to be added.

You can check it out below.

http://newbridgenavigator.pythonanywhere.com/ (http://newbridgenavigator.pythonanywhere.com/)
Title: Re: Introducing the Newbridge Navigator
Post by: not that clay on September 13, 2014, 04:26:19 PM
Ugh, python. Should have used rails.

Seriously though, this is excellent! You can link to the clips in the pop-up player with a start time.  For example:

http://www.wfmu.org/flashplayer.php?version=2&show=57144&archive=107115&starttime=0:37:50 (http://www.wfmu.org/flashplayer.php?version=2&show=57144&archive=107115&starttime=0:37:50)

Title: Re: Introducing the Newbridge Navigator
Post by: kleinsbeer on September 13, 2014, 04:47:10 PM
Awesome, I'll look at sticking that in
Edit: Site has been updated to link to time in the popup player. Thanks for the tip!
Title: Re: Introducing the Newbridge Navigator
Post by: Gleepglop on September 13, 2014, 05:52:56 PM
That's pretty rad, man. Bookmarked.
Title: Re: Introducing the Newbridge Navigator
Post by: djtyler on September 13, 2014, 06:13:32 PM
Awesome, thanks!
Title: Re: Introducing the Newbridge Navigator
Post by: JRSly on September 16, 2014, 02:31:05 AM
This is incredible!
Title: Re: Introducing the Newbridge Navigator
Post by: Stanley on September 16, 2014, 02:32:53 PM
*wipes tears of happiness from eyes* 

It's beautiful!!!
Title: Re: Introducing the Newbridge Navigator
Post by: Stanley on September 16, 2014, 02:33:29 PM
That's pretty rad, man. Bookmarked.

I second this emotion.
Title: Re: Introducing the Newbridge Navigator
Post by: Stanley on September 16, 2014, 02:43:08 PM
This is incredible!

Is it crazy, JRSly, to envision a day when your mind-melting map of Newbridge is joined up to kleinsbeer's Newbridge Navigator?

 The thought of these two projects possibly coming together, reminds me of several noted historical occasions when peanut butter met up with chocolate:

http://youtu.be/AGsWqGX6bvA (http://youtu.be/AGsWqGX6bvA)

http://youtu.be/93hxKtd4CdA (http://youtu.be/93hxKtd4CdA)

http://youtu.be/DJLDF6qZUX0 (http://youtu.be/DJLDF6qZUX0)
Title: Re: Introducing the Newbridge Navigator
Post by: not that clay on September 16, 2014, 05:29:49 PM
Awesome, I'll look at sticking that in
Edit: Site has been updated to link to time in the popup player. Thanks for the tip!

How are you doing the tagging? Are you keying the times in from Omar's recaps or something?
Title: Re: Introducing the Newbridge Navigator
Post by: nec13 on September 16, 2014, 09:00:54 PM
Bookmarked.

Wonderful job, Kleinsbeer!
Title: Re: Introducing the Newbridge Navigator
Post by: nrt4 on September 16, 2014, 10:41:19 PM
Woah! This is great. As stated by someone else, bookmarked.
Title: Re: Introducing the Newbridge Navigator
Post by: kleinsbeer on September 17, 2014, 03:22:10 PM
Thanks for the feedback everyone.

How are you doing the tagging? Are you keying the times in from Omar's recaps or something?

At the moment I'm just coming up with tags myself that I think would be relevant to a character/show from listening to the shows.  Most of the appearance times are referenced from the Newbridgctionary http://buffcoat.blogspot.co.uk/ (http://buffcoat.blogspot.co.uk/)
Title: Re: Introducing the Newbridge Navigator
Post by: buffcoat on September 18, 2014, 12:57:23 PM
Thanks for the feedback everyone.

How are you doing the tagging? Are you keying the times in from Omar's recaps or something?

At the moment I'm just coming up with tags myself that I think would be relevant to a character/show from listening to the shows.  Most of the appearance times are referenced from the Newbridgctionary http://buffcoat.blogspot.co.uk/ (http://buffcoat.blogspot.co.uk/)


Whoa, there's a British buffcoat?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Title: Re: Introducing the Newbridge Navigator
Post by: Wes on September 18, 2014, 02:34:59 PM
Thanks for the feedback everyone.

How are you doing the tagging? Are you keying the times in from Omar's recaps or something?

At the moment I'm just coming up with tags myself that I think would be relevant to a character/show from listening to the shows.  Most of the appearance times are referenced from the Newbridgctionary http://buffcoat.blogspot.co.uk/ (http://buffcoat.blogspot.co.uk/)


Whoa, there's a British buffcoat?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
buffanorak
Title: Re: Introducing the Newbridge Navigator
Post by: kleinsbeer on September 18, 2014, 03:48:59 PM
I guess since I'm from the UK it redirected me to a .co.uk domain ...weird.
Title: Re: Introducing the Newbridge Navigator
Post by: AspiringCanadian on September 18, 2014, 04:07:56 PM
Nice work and thank you!  Are the episodes compatible on a mobile device by chance?
Title: Re: Introducing the Newbridge Navigator
Post by: kleinsbeer on September 19, 2014, 09:51:20 AM
The site itself is mobile compatible. Unfortunately the links to the episodes go to the WFMU popup player, which is flash, so no (although you can run flash on android, it's not exactly a good experience). Can't really do anything about that unless WFMU decide to make the shows available in a mobile friendly format I'm afraid.
Title: Re: Introducing the Newbridge Navigator
Post by: AspiringCanadian on September 19, 2014, 01:24:58 PM
Fair enough.  It'd be awesome to have some day just to avoid having large files saved to your phone.  Either way, the site is great and thanks again
Title: Re: Introducing the Newbridge Navigator
Post by: JRSly on September 24, 2014, 01:37:57 AM
This is incredible!

Is it crazy, JRSly, to envision a day when your mind-melting map of Newbridge is joined up to kleinsbeer's Newbridge Navigator?

 The thought of these two projects possibly coming together, reminds me of several noted historical occasions when peanut butter met up with chocolate:

http://youtu.be/AGsWqGX6bvA (http://youtu.be/AGsWqGX6bvA)

http://youtu.be/93hxKtd4CdA (http://youtu.be/93hxKtd4CdA)

http://youtu.be/DJLDF6qZUX0 (http://youtu.be/DJLDF6qZUX0)
Indeed, I'd love to see something like that happen. I'm not exactly knowledgeable on the process entirely, but I had hoped my next step might be having the map, or another style map based on the original, be interactive and dynamic.
Title: Re: Introducing the Newbridge Navigator
Post by: CactusClothesline on September 24, 2014, 05:19:37 PM
This is truly amazing. Thank you for this!
Title: Re: Introducing the Newbridge Navigator
Post by: cameron on October 02, 2014, 08:43:10 AM
it seems like you only have character appearances on this thing if the appearance is in the episode title?
Title: Re: Introducing the Newbridge Navigator
Post by: Josh on October 02, 2014, 12:59:29 PM
ABBAsolutely outstanding.

I love you.
Title: Re: Introducing the Newbridge Navigator
Post by: kleinsbeer on October 05, 2014, 06:06:06 PM
it seems like you only have character appearances on this thing if the appearance is in the episode title?

Yeah, there are still quite a few episodes that I need to go through
Title: Re: Introducing the Newbridge Navigator
Post by: RemyLBO on October 05, 2014, 07:21:29 PM
Hey! This is great!

Thanks for building this.

Now, I have no idea how hard this would be to implement.  But wouldn't it be great if we could annotate the episodes, like Wikipedia, or maybe RapGenius?
Title: Re: Introducing the Newbridge Navigator
Post by: kleinsbeer on October 06, 2014, 06:30:05 PM
Hey! This is great!

Thanks for building this.

Now, I have no idea how hard this would be to implement.  But wouldn't it be great if we could annotate the episodes, like Wikipedia, or maybe RapGenius?

Thanks! Sounds interesting, although I think it may be more of a human challenge than a technical one. Opening up an effectively unmoderated site to public user contributed content is pretty much asking for trouble.
Title: Re: Introducing the Newbridge Navigator
Post by: RemyLBO on October 08, 2014, 11:56:41 PM
Yes, I agree that it sounds terrifying. 

I don't know how the other sites do it.  Also, I think there was a Best Show wiki from a few years ago that didn't as much love as you might hope. 
Title: Re: Introducing the Newbridge Navigator
Post by: kleinsbeer on October 09, 2014, 03:12:09 PM
Hey everyone,

I've added JRSly's fantastic map to the site. Check it out at http://newbridgenavigator.pythonanywhere.com/map (http://newbridgenavigator.pythonanywhere.com/map)
Title: Re: Introducing the Newbridge Navigator
Post by: Stanley on October 09, 2014, 03:49:00 PM
This is incredible!

Is it crazy, JRSly, to envision a day when your mind-melting map of Newbridge is joined up to kleinsbeer's Newbridge Navigator?

 The thought of these two projects possibly coming together, reminds me of several noted historical occasions when peanut butter met up with chocolate:

http://youtu.be/AGsWqGX6bvA (http://youtu.be/AGsWqGX6bvA)

http://youtu.be/93hxKtd4CdA (http://youtu.be/93hxKtd4CdA)

http://youtu.be/DJLDF6qZUX0 (http://youtu.be/DJLDF6qZUX0)
Indeed, I'd love to see something like that happen. I'm not exactly knowledgeable on the process entirely, but I had hoped my next step might be having the map, or another style map based on the original, be interactive and dynamic.

Dreams do come true!!!

See kleinsbeer's post just before mine for more details:
Title: Re: Introducing the Newbridge Navigator
Post by: JRSly on October 10, 2014, 03:50:08 PM
Ahh, the tears of joy.
Title: Re: Introducing the Newbridge Navigator
Post by: nbwadeinhifi on August 01, 2016, 10:52:14 AM
Has the newbridge navigator gone out of commission? :(
Title: Re: Introducing the Newbridge Navigator
Post by: brancron on August 02, 2016, 03:41:13 PM
No!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: Introducing the Newbridge Navigator
Post by: federationofideas on August 04, 2016, 04:23:31 PM
wha happened?