19. The method of claim 18 , wherein the screen scraping further comprises: extracting dates from XHTML for a page of the weblog; sorting the extracted dates into ordered lists, each ordered list corresponding to a relative XPath; filtering the ordered lists according to a set of heuristics to determine which of the lists corresponds to actual entry dates of the weblog posts; segmenting the weblog into entries, using dates from the determined list as markers for the entries; segmenting each weblog entry into a post using post titles markers; and identifying a permalink and author for each post.
19. The method of claim 18 , wherein the screen scraping further comprises: extracting dates from XHTML for a page of the weblog; sorting the extracted dates into ordered lists, each ordered list corresponding to a relative XPath; filtering the ordered lists according to a set of heuristics to determine which of the lists corresponds to actual entry dates of the weblog posts; segmenting the weblog into entries, using dates from the determined list as markers for the entries; segmenting each weblog entry into a post using post titles markers; and identifying a permalink and author for each post. 26. The method of claim 19 , wherein identifying the permalink and author further comprises identifying patterns indicative of an author byline.