Re: [Mod-pubsub-developer] Meg Hourihan: "mod_pubsub-enable Amazon"

[Scott A. L. <sc...@sc...>]

Meg has more comments today:

<http://www.megnut.com/archive.asp?which=2002_12_01_archive.inc#002348>

"Another idea for mod_pubsub: real-time updates over at Weblogs.com. 
 From what I can tell, weblogs.com receives a ping when a weblog 
updates. It must store that info in a database or text file and then 
whenever the page loads, writes the list from that. Why not subscribe to 
its own pings and write them as they come in? Seems totally doable to me."

I had a similar idea yesterday: Movable Type's home page has a list of 
"recently updated weblogs" which works essentially in the same way as 
weblogs.com (MT users send a ping to Moveable Type's server when they 
update).

It would probably be trivial for Mena and Ben to add a line of code that 
forwards that ping on to a public router (like Joyce's machine or one of 
the upcoming KN machines). Then we could build a demo similar to the one 
Ev came up with for Blogger. Maybe we should ask them to come play with us?

-- Scott