Blog Change Bot

July 26, 2003 10:27 AM

Blog Change Bot is an AOL Instant Messenger-based bot that will send you an IM whenever your favorite blogs are updated. (via Blogroots; more inside)
posted by UKnowForKids (8 comments total)

The Flaming Lips' The Soft Bulletin is a really good album. I just needed to say that.
posted by UKnowForKids at 10:28 AM on July 26, 2003

You do know that Blogroots is on the sidebar in MeTa, right?
posted by monju_bosatsu at 10:32 AM on July 26, 2003

The Flaming Lips' The Soft Bulletin is a really good album. I just needed to say that.

good call!
posted by mcsweetie at 10:33 AM on July 26, 2003

This seemed to me to be an interesting enough thing to warrant a post over here, with the much wider audience. If not (or if bringing things here from Blogroots is considered overkill), I'll happily whistle while the thread is dumped into the Not Ready for Primetime pile.
posted by UKnowForKids at 11:09 AM on July 26, 2003

I use this thing. It's great-- I get an IM within minutes whenever someone on my list updates their blog. It takes blogstalking to a whole new level.
posted by bonheur at 1:28 PM on July 26, 2003

If you're that hooked on a blog, you need to kill yourself.
posted by HTuttle at 10:03 PM on July 26, 2003

hmmm, i'll need this for when metafilter is updated.
the flaming lips are overrated.
posted by the aloha at 3:01 AM on July 27, 2003

If this thing could get hooked up to all the updates listed @ blo.gs or weblogs.com and scrape any with RSS for keywords I'm interested in, it would make a more usable agent. Otherwise it's useful for things one already knows about. Very elegant use of existing technologies though. I wrote some more thoughts here.
posted by walrus at 6:22 AM on July 27, 2003