[circle] Simple gossip to HTML gateway written

[Peter Moulder]

In order to make it more practical for people to disable gossip on their
client, I've written a simple script that converts one's .circle/gossip
file to a directory containing index.html and an additional file per
gossip item.  Source is gossip2html.py in the top-level directory of CVS.

Personally, I prefer this HTML interface (with its two-level design) over
the existing gtk interface anyway, despite the paucity of features of
this script: there's no reply or post or threading or trust distances or
markup of URLs.  Comment from top of script:

# Note: This is a throwaway demonstration of how one could do a gateway
# from gossip to whatever other system.  If you want to add features,
# then PLEASE consider starting from some existing web forum software,
# making this script just feed into that system.

# See GroupLens (google finds both the home page
# http://www.cs.umn.edu/Research/GroupLens/ and caches of their paper)
# for how to do ratings better than circle does.  Such functionality
# would be a useful addition to any web forum software, and would have an
# immediate user base of tens of thousands rather than the tens of circle
# users.


An example of its output (from my .circle/gossip file) is at

  http://bowman.csse.monash.edu.au/~pmoulder/gossip/ 

pjm.