Fw: SearchAlert and blog notifications

FYI.

I'd like to test with sending to mod-pubsub topics, but I have severe
problems using the browser clients. The mod-pubsub.org server is either
attacking my system via the AltaVista_Traveral attack, or sending HTTP
requests to a URL with "../" somewhere in there which goes above a root
directory & triggers my firewall/anti-virus software.

Anyway....
What is the consensus for sending content formats to pubsub topics? I have a
service that monitors Google and posts lists of URLs and titles - what
format should be posted to a pubsub topic? RSS? arbitrary/simple XML? one
event per title/link pair? A lot of people have looked at 'resource
modeling' and REST - but what guidance is there for content formats?



----- Original Message ----- 
To: "Adam Rifkin" <[email protected]>
Cc: "Rohit Khare" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 7:07 PM
Subject: SearchAlert and blog notifications


> Adam,
> I've been fiddling with my searchalert.net service & have put together a
> 'web notification' mechanism that can post to web resources - blogs,
> mod-pubsub topics, etc.
>
> The searchalert.net service monitors google - both news and web searches -
> and sends notifications to destinations a user selects. The content of the
> post is generated via a template - but only admins (me) can add templates
so
> far.
>
> If I can get some time tonight - we have three extra kids doing a
sleepover
> tonight, so it can get a bit busy - I'll play around with creating a
> template for posting to mod-pubsub topics.
>
> To play with it, you need
>  - an account http://www.searchalert.net/searchalert/users/register.html
>  - a web destination :
> http://www.searchalert.net/searchalert/destinations/add.jsp
>  - a subscription (from a search to a destination):
> http://www.searchalert.net/searchalert/subscribe_adv.jsp
>
> The one point I'm stuck on is what format to post to pubsub topics - the
> content searchalert has is basically a list of links and titles. Most web
> services seem to accept one link/title at a time - they seem ill-equipped
to
> receive lists of items. Someday I'll add support for sending either a list
> of links or individual links with multiple requests. Anyway, let me know
> what you think.
>
>


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