Simon Willison’s Weblog

GAS-ICS-Sync (via) Google Calendar can subscribe to ICS calendar feeds... but polls for updates less than once every 24 hours (as far as I can tell) greatly limiting their usefulness. Derek Antrican wrote a script using Google App Script which fixes this by polling calendar URLs more often and writing them to your calendar via the write API.

# 30th July 2022, 11:47 pm / google-calendar, ical

Google apps for your newsroom. How the LJ World team use online tools like Google Spreadsheet, Swivel, ManyEyes and Google MyMaps to collaborate with the newsroom and build data-heavy applications even faster.

# 7th January 2008, 9:24 pm / news, journalism, ljworld, django, manyeyes, google, mymaps, google-maps, google-calendar, google-docs, newsroom, collaboration, matt-croydon