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Slashdot is dark tonight — apparently, there’s some server upgrading going on that they, like, forgot to mention.

The Sun’s Tricia Bishop interviewed me for this article on RSS (unfortunately, it requires free registration to read it). It’s pretty good for a general news assessment of where syndication is going (of course, I was quoted for about a quarter of its contents, so I may be a little prejudiced).

I’m tinkering with a project to pull down select RSS feeds and, when changes occur, send a summary of them as an instant message over AIM.

I started mulling over how to do this as I was strolling around San Francisco receiving AIM messages on my AT&T Wireless cellphone. There’s a service called JabRSS that provides this, but I’m looking to do something that I can wire to a desktop aggregator, or something I can do a quick config of from my desktop to push stuff to my AIM account .

I could do this in AppleScript, I suppose…but where’s the fun in that? It wouldn’t be cross-platform.

Jabber’s probably at least a good place to start…anybody have other suggestions?