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Looks like good old Slashdot picked up the Google story. Link here and here.

Tons of hits. Beer all around!

Recently there have been some User Groups forming around Cocoon. There’s already a bunch of people in Switzerland organizing, as well as New York. (Update: and now Wellington, New Zealand!)

If anyone is interested in starting a Cocoon user group for the Minneapolis / St. Paul area, drop a message here, on the Wiki, or on Cocoon-Users.

After breaking the Google IRC story, I’ve had a few thoughts.

First, the only channels that the bot appears in are public channels, i.e. ones that do not have their mode set to +s. Since channels which are not +s are listed in the channels list, it only makes sense that the bot is just doing a /list and joining anything it thinks is interesting. Fortunately, most of the interesting channels are secret.

Second, the bot probably got a server list off of netsplit.de.

Third, I wouldn’t don the tinfoil hats just yet. Google indexing irc servers would be interesting, but many channels are private. If a Googlebot did manage to get it’s way into a private channel, it can easily be banned (*!*@*.google.com would do it).

Anyway, that’s it for now… the incoming links have been overwhelming :)

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Styling Atom with CSS. Cocoon is ripe for an Atom implementation.