journaling alternatives

[astolat]

Some people have been asking fanarchive about a journaling site in particular, but it's going to be a while yet before an informed decision can be made on what projects are going to be pursued, because we're getting the committees together now that will be studying the resource costs of a lot of the proposed projects, and also seeing what kind of human and

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[minotaurs]

I've recently had the thought that the solution might not lie in creating/finding/building a single journalling site where fandom will be safe. Instead, how about a single site that concatenates *all* the journaling services? One place you could go to read and post to all your accounts on all the different journals? Kind of like Semagic, but web-based and able to read as well as post. I know enough about programming that I can kind of see how this could be made to work, but not enough to build it.

[djinanna]

Sort of a friends list aggregator. That's an interesting idea. I have no programmer skills or I would try to be more helpful.

[eboniorchid]

I only just stumbled across it, while looking for something else entirely, but over here (http://www.profilactic.com/index.jsp) they have what they call "mashups" which allow for multiple blogs to sort of be collated into one. As far as I can see, though, they can only mashup public entries and have no cut system. I don't know if there's a way to "mashup" blogs that aren't your own, but they don't ask for passwords (probably because they only take public entries), so you could, theoretically create f-list mashups for yourself too, I suppose.

I know it's not exactly what you're looking for - I would very much love to see what you're describing - but if you have enough sense of programming, maybe it'll help you think about how to do what it is you really want to do.

[blktauna]

I think that's going to be the actual solution. Now how to make it?

[eboniorchid]

Actually, your suggestion struck me and I just kept thinking about how to do this. What about using RSS feeds? I mean, all these journaling sites provide RSS feeds for their users and communities, so I know that I can collate my f-listers who have moved wherever I can access RSS feeds, which includes here on LJ, but could also be anywhere really.

Admittedly, I only recently became familiar with RSS, so I don't know everything about it and imagine that there are many fans who might not know how to use it at all. But ... maybe we could just find a space already available (or create one if necessary) for the collection of RSS feeds and just help fandom learn how to use it.

[eboniorchid]

I will say, though, that the problem with RSS feeds is that there doesn't seem to be a way to access "locked" content through them, so ... Hmm. Okay ... that's all I've got.

[lipsum]

Some RSS aggregators can work with cookies, so you can view flocked posts (I've just been testing this with the Firefox extension Sage), but I doubt that any of them handle the lj-cut tag correctly, which is a big problem for fandom.