Earlier, Francis referred to an “evil plan”. So, here’s the plan:
Purely for my own entertainment, I’ve decided that the way to get us writing more updates for mySociety home page is to break the old rule that you should “never solve a social problem with a technical solution”. Here is my technical solution; let’s see how badly it breaks….
RSS feed
April 16th, 2006 at 2:08pm
I don’t know what to say to you.
December 26th, 2006 at 9:28am
It’s verry good!
January 26th, 2007 at 10:42am
I would like to know when the web site will be upgraded so that people can put things down under times?
Sincerely
Raymond Cox
November 22nd, 2007 at 5:02pm
Hey! This is a neat program. Thanks for posting!
April 6th, 2008 at 8:22pm
I just wanted to say that your script inspired me to put together a variation on your hassler: it reads your blog’s RSS feed to check if you haven’t blogged, and if not, sends you an email. I’d love your feedback:
http://brompt.com
It’s still very beta. Parsing RSS feeds is hardly than it looks, so I learned :-)
February 6th, 2009 at 7:50pm
I’ve got a feature request! Enable hassles via Twitter, Jabber, SMS or other services that could be integrated easily. It might involve an extra step but some people might not mind if it means they can get their hassles via a DM on Twitter…