[Mod-pubsub-developer] New kn_apps sample

[Asynch M. <asy...@ho...>]

I'm in the middle of checking in a new sample app - KnowNews - which is a
streaming RSS news viewer.
I just need write access to the CVS repository...

I have a live version at http://www.topiczero.com/ (the direct link is
http://www.topiczero.com:8000/kn_apps/knownews/)
if you want to see it in action.

This client displays news items as they are published, and lets users
discuss events in a streaming 'comments' section on the right. The events
are not RSS/XML format - a scheduled script does the rss parse & re-posts
the metadata in a simpler format.

This client uses a few known topics that are identified with the dmoz.org
taxonomy location that made the most sense at the time. This is shown at the
top of the page (viewing
/dmoz.org/News/By_Subject/Information_Technology/Internet/ for example.)
Some news items don't have a description, which makes for a terse page of
links.

I also have a script file that pulls RSS files and re-posts individual items
into the appropriate KN topics on the server. Its written in JavaScript &
uses the XMLHTTPRequest object from MS. Needless to say, this is a windows
only thing. The .js file has hardcoded rss source URLs as well as hardcoded
KN server URLs. I set up a 2hr scheduled task on Win2K so this script will
update news items at that frequency.

Feel free to pull in or cross-route or cross-post relavant news items - just
check the names of the properties that the client expects within the events.