kellan has graciously provided me with a headstart on something i’ve been meaning to look into for quiet some time – text summarization. why do i have the summary itch? i’ve been hankering to provide full-text and abridged version rss feeds, but i’m too lazy to handcraft a summary for each post. there’s a web-based front end for for one of the most promising prospects, classifier4j.

could i ever get the time and motivation to whip together an xml-rpc interface so i could call it from my ugly xhtml2rss script?