Completed the FeedSubscriptionService, Bufunkalo, and Shredder

The FeedSubscriptionService, Bufunkalo, and Shredder are all completed and tested! The next items on the hit list are the Coordinator (previously known as UIAgent) and the Shoechicken itself. The UIAgent was renamed because its role now is more of a centralized module that ties all other pieces together.

Michael and I have begun laying out the internals of both the Coordinator and the Shoechicken. The Coordinator is going to involve working out some messy synchronization issues between the modules, but we think we've got the main operations mapped out.

I've started writing code for the Shoechicken. I will probably start by creating a test case for the Shoechicken and build the internal event chain gradually. The first step will be to pull the data from the database and build the Article/Keyword matrix. I am going to have to create some fake user models with which to compute that ratings, so that will probably be next. Then, after combining the new data with the user model, we'll start working on using LSI to row reduce the data.

My wife suggested that we look to possibly adapting Shoechicken to perform a similar task for video footage. Shoechicken could recommend new movie trailers, news footage, and other kinds of video footage. After talking it over for a while it really seems like a possible direction for Shoechicken in the future. It would of course require delving into video image processing, which sounds like a good challenge. Let the fun begin!!