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
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