While I type this, an old version of the Semagic client is auto-archiving anything that used to be on LiveJournal. The ability to run mass security processing is something so sorely missed on anything LJ. Locally, if I wanted to switch everything to "draft" I could do it with a quick SQL and not even give it a second thought. Incidentally it would also be faster too. So, if you happen to be a livejournal user (like I was), and use an RSS reader (like I do), then the next step shouldn't be tough: grab yourself a heap of XML and be on your way. If you are new to the whole XML thing, I strongly reccomend SharpReader, which is not only free, but is faster than many you pay for, has systray notification, and OPML importing. (Learning OPML is as simple as copying someone else's with your xml lines instead -Ed) Through all this, there remains only one issue. Livejournal, a password / cookie service, does not have any way to authenticate for RSS feeds. This means I am still looking in LiveJournal for protected entries. Unfortunately this also means that those of you with friends-only journals are now in a special group, which is what I filter and check once per day or blinky icon, whichever comes first. However, it would be nice for their syndication to work like on every other web site out there. In the meantime, I have Semagic watching the friends group. It isn't an idea solution, but I doubt authentication and rss are high on their lists of things to do (whereas things like content filtering for kids makes more sense). Lastly on the vein of weblogs and content ratings, is there an effective way to mark content for the weblog? I have seen a few ways, including a definition in a meta tag, but have yet to find anything extremely effective. Not that my content is normally ofensive, but the best for of regulation is self-regulation.
I've made a few site-wide changes, the biggest being threaded comments, and the second biggest being a fully functional RSS feed and as-close-toxhtml-as-I-care-to-get-it code. I wouldn't object to making the entire site XHTML, except that content management systems always have little quirks that make unconditional compliance a hard thing. That and some habits are just too hard to break. For example, I will never get used to changing all & to & in all my links, and since it never copies that way, you would have a difficult time convincing the average user to do it as well. Anyway, that's that on the site news.
NetProject has been coming along, although much slower than I would have wanted it to. I intend to sit down tomorrow with the intent of getting in a good day's worth of coding. If all goes well, I will have at least the rest of the index display working, and will be starting on the add project forms. I think I will make the Project Manager navigation bar a function, so this way including it on other pages won't be too dificult. I'm also experimenting with just building the functions into the menu so it feels even more like part of the xoops installation. Paper testing seems to show that either would work. Truth be-told, the menu would be the easier of the two routes to go.
In response to "School starts soon, pull the wool back over my eyes!":
This is how we make sure the comment spam is not hiding good comments!