Been trying to get a LiveJournal syndicated feed for my LJ friends for a while, now I have one. This has implications for my content.–readers who arn’t random from the internet is good, readers in general are always good.
I’m pretty excited about the Western Website project to make a dynamic iCal calendar (and web frontend) which is controlled from the listserv by everyone and would be interested to see what other Westerners think of the idea. Basically people would preface events posted to the listserv with the subject of EVENT (date here) (title here) or something to that effect. The listserv is our primary focus of the Western community and I think we risk fading the website to obselecense more quickly if we ignore that.
Obviously there could be abuse and, as I’ve demonstrated with my Western Wiki, I’m a fan of social, err, software (as cliche as that term is). Anyway I think there should be an equal but opposite response to any out of hand or generally wrong posts. So one would reply and add SPAM to the beginning of the subject. In the message they could then take the opportunity to thouroughly redress (cuss out?) out the original poster. Furthur redress (as on the spam accuser) would also be based on social means.
There would be a nice *.ics file which people could sync up to with iCalendar, Outlook and eventually Mozilla Calendar too. It will always be updated and could integrate with their other calendars. This would be in addition to the calendar on the website.
