Serial Killer

[jccooper]

So Sid's got me wondering if it would be quite insane to write, or at least publish, my NaNoWriMo effort over Twitter. It does have something going for it: the NaNoWriMo spirit is to sort of just bull straight ahead and get something done, and not worry about going back to edit or what-not. So it's a pretty serial sort of writing, which would be a

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[sidbyrd]

I bet with some combination of Google Docs (which you said you're currently using?), Google API, Yahoo Pipes, and python twitter (http://code.google.com/p/python-twitter/) you could hack something up. Does GooDocs support RSS for recent changes like a good wiki does (e.g. pbwiki)? You could probably also save locally in a folder with an Applescript folder action watching for changed files, parsing after a stored character position, chunkifying, and autotweeting from a desktop client app. I'm slightly surprised not to find someone's functionally-similar Frankenhack accompli on the first page of Google results. What do these web people do with their time if not plumb amusingly knobbly pipes between all of cyberspace's various fittings? Don't tell me they write.

[jccooper]

They have a feed of all your documents, but I can't find one per-document, though they do have a nice list of changes for a document.

I think what it needs is a text editor that's 140 char wide (for easy Twitter-formatting) that will send the individual lines off to Twitter, probably on a timer, and sends paragraphs off to Google Docs in the same manner. Anything simpler will probably have bad results on Twitter.

Both of those have a simple Python API, which is good. I can get a spell-checking widget any number of ways--most browsers provide it on generic TextAreas. I could probably dig up a machine to host it so that it's as generically accessible as GDocs (though I won't take the time to do Gears, so it won't be quite as nice to be offline, but that's okay.)

The more I think about this, the more I think I'll do it, and the more stupid it sounds.

[anonymous]

Oh hells no.

[sriniocaf]

Did you heard what Rob Matts said about that?