Science streaming

Michael Barton has a nice post up:

I currently use Subversion to back up my project files, and I noticed Twitter status updates are very similar in length to subversion log messages. I created a short script so that every time I do a subversion repository check in, the message is also sent to Twitter.

I'd like to see activity aggregators accept arbitrary updates - sort of like Facebook's Beacon updating people's News Feed, but done properly.