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  "title": "Jabber Oracle: a quicker, n00bier guru?",
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  "html": "<p>A quick further thought I had, regarding <a href=\"http://decafbad.com/blog/2005/10/26/tell-me-oh-oracle\">the Internet Oracle</a>:  What if I built a Jabber/AIM Oracle?  You send it an IM with a request; you're asked, in turn, to answer another request; eventually you receive an answer after a period of Oracular ponderance.</p>\n<p>Now, I've already found <a href=\"http://decafbad.com/blog/2005/06/24/decafbot-update-faqs\">one impedance mismatch for chatbots</a>, in converting an IRC-based bot to an IM-based bot.  In particular, a privately-messaged automaton loses all of the shared context built up in a public chatroom.  For infobots on IRC, often the users manual is found in watching how everyone else interacts with it.  You lose that in 1-to-1 IM.  </p>\n<p>I'd imagine going from an email interface to IM would narrow the amount of context available, but would it still be a fun hack?  Waste of time?</p>\n<!-- tags: jabber oracle chatbots -->\n\n<div id=\"comments\" class=\"comments archived-comments\"><h3>Archived Comments</h3>\n<ul class=\"comments\">\n<li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221083190\">\n<div class=\"meta\">\n<div class=\"author\">\n<a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://dougal.gunters.org/\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=81717a172b6918071fbea1a52483294b&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\" width=\"\" height=\"\"></a>\n<a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http://dougal.gunters.org/\">Dougal Campbell</a>\n</div>\n\n\n<p><a href=\"#comment-221083190\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2005-10-28T15:42:51\">2005-10-28T15:42:51</time></a></p>\n</div>\n\n\n<div class=\"content\"><p>Well, Jabber has chatrooms. Why not use those?</p>\n<p>Does AIM support that, too? I've only ever talked to AIM contacts via my Jabber-AIM gateway, not with the actual client...</p></div>\n\n\n</li>\n</ul>\n\n\n</div>\n\n\n",
  "body": "A quick further thought I had, regarding [the Internet Oracle][ora]:  What if I built a Jabber/AIM Oracle?  You send it an IM with a request; you're asked, in turn, to answer another request; eventually you receive an answer after a period of Oracular ponderance.\r\n\r\nNow, I've already found [one impedance mismatch for chatbots][bot], in converting an IRC-based bot to an IM-based bot.  In particular, a privately-messaged automaton loses all of the shared context built up in a public chatroom.  For infobots on IRC, often the users manual is found in watching how everyone else interacts with it.  You lose that in 1-to-1 IM.  \r\n\r\nI'd imagine going from an email interface to IM would narrow the amount of context available, but would it still be a fun hack?  Waste of time?\r\n\r\n[bot]: http://decafbad.com/blog/2005/06/24/decafbot-update-faqs\r\n[ora]: http://decafbad.com/blog/2005/10/26/tell-me-oh-oracle\r\n\r\n<!-- tags: jabber oracle chatbots -->\r\n\r\n<div id=\"comments\" class=\"comments archived-comments\">\r\n            <h3>Archived Comments</h3>\r\n            \r\n        <ul class=\"comments\">\r\n            \r\n        <li class=\"comment\" id=\"comment-221083190\">\r\n            <div class=\"meta\">\r\n                <div class=\"author\">\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar image\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://dougal.gunters.org/\"><img src=\"http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?gravatar_id=81717a172b6918071fbea1a52483294b&amp;size=32&amp;default=http://mediacdn.disqus.com/1320279820/images/noavatar32.png\"/></a>\r\n                    <a class=\"avatar name\" rel=\"nofollow\" \r\n                       href=\"http://dougal.gunters.org/\">Dougal Campbell</a>\r\n                </div>\r\n                <a href=\"#comment-221083190\" class=\"permalink\"><time datetime=\"2005-10-28T15:42:51\">2005-10-28T15:42:51</time></a>\r\n            </div>\r\n            <div class=\"content\"><p>Well, Jabber has chatrooms. Why not use those?</p>\r\n\r\n<p>Does AIM support that, too? I've only ever talked to AIM contacts via my Jabber-AIM gateway, not with the actual client...</p></div>\r\n            \r\n        </li>\r\n    \r\n        </ul>\r\n    \r\n        </div>\r\n    ",
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