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

[Adam R. <Ad...@Kn...>]

Number one, Meg I wish you were working at KnowNow still!  You are a =
font of great ideas!!!

Number two, Scott this is a fantastic connection.  Please ask Mena and =
Ben to come play with us...

  ;) Adam


-----Original Message-----
From:	Scott Andrew LePera [mailto:sc...@sc...]
Sent:	Fri 12/13/2002 8:28 AM
To:	Adam Rifkin
Cc:	mod...@li...
Subject:	Re: [Mod-pubsub-developer] Meg Hourihan: "mod_pubsub-enable =
Amazon"
Meg has more comments today:

<http://www.megnut.com/archive.asp?which=3D2002_12_01_archive.inc#002348>=


"Another idea for mod_pubsub: real-time updates over at Weblogs.com.=20
 From what I can tell, weblogs.com receives a ping when a weblog=20
updates. It must store that info in a database or text file and then=20
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=20
"recently updated weblogs" which works essentially in the same way as=20
weblogs.com (MT users send a ping to Moveable Type's server when they=20
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