Scripting News Shows Internet Alchemy Naked

Whoops! Well, I suppose it had to happen. Internet Alchemy has been exposed for all to see before it’s fully cooked. The story is that I was testing out the RSS format of IA on Dave Winer’s RSS File Tester, and all seemed to be well. Until today that is. I thought I’d finally try out Dave’s my.userland.com site and was slightly stunned to see Internet Alchemy listed as one of the available channels, naked, in it’s pre-launch state. Mild panic set in, followed swiftly by dejected resignation as I realised that Dave must have somehow transferred all those test ones to the live system. Oh well, it’s more of an incentive to get all the automation complete!