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xmlhack news wire

xmlhack’s “Editor’s Newswire” is interesting. It is a small column (explained here) located on the right hand side of the site that displays the latest XML news snippets “in real time”. The interesting part is how the section is updated—an IRC bot (The Daily Chump Bot, written in Python) monitors a channel for specific commands from authorised users, and produces an XML file of new snippets. Site updates through IRC (or instant messenging services such as MSN or Jabber) is a concept which we could see a lot more of, especially in this age of web services.

Posted 10th July 2002 at 12:50 pm

This is xmlhack news wire by Simon Willison, posted on 10th July 2002.

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  1. there was, actually an AIM 'bot through which you could update a blogger blog (http://www.fibiger.org/bloggerbot/). It was pretty neat, though AIM mangles html tags and links. And I'm not sure if it's still up (last entry on its site is May 2, '02).

    bec - 11th July 2002 04:29 - #

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