Yesterday’s post mentioned that I found this article (OpenP2P.com: Is Jabber’s Chatbot the Command Line of the Future?) on O’reilly right after discussing how I thought chatbots could become highly useful interfaces.

Today I just want to expand on that concept a bit. DJ Adams already does a great job of pointing out some of the things that bots do on IRC. Not being much of an IRC user, I had no idea that some of these bots could do the things DJ discusses. Among them he mentions note-taking, moderation and information provision. Read more…