asv108's Journal: RFC: Slashdot Blog Plugin?

It seems that quite a few people are moving away from /. journals to more traditional blogs. Slashdot has been neglecting the journaling system for quite some time, lacking many of the basic features that are in most blogging packages. I've been flirting with the idea of moving to my own blog but the problem is that I want to notify my /. friends that I have a new journal entry available.

I've heard some people talk about creating a new site for slashdot journal users who want to have the same sense of community but with functionality that users come to expect in a blogging system. While I think this is novel idea, it seems be a lot of work and would require a huge paradigm shift to get people to move to a new site.

An alternative option, that I've been contemplating for quite some time is writing a plugin for one of the more popular blogging packages, like wordpress. What is there was a blog plugin that would automatically post the url and/or content to your slashdot journal? I have yet to confirm the technical feasibility of such a feature, but it seems like it would take care of a lot of problems for those seeking to have their own blog but not abandon the /. community.

That would be easy to do...anywhere else

[Safety Cap]

Take a look at the journal entry form. The stuff you need to send includes:

<form action="/journal.pl" method="post" enctype="application/x-www-form-urlencoded">
&nbs p; <input type="hidden" name="id" value="" />
<input type="hidden" name="state" value="editing" />
<input type="hidden" name="preview" value="active" />
<input type="HIDDEN" name="formkey" value="58815bUjQn" />
<input type="hidden" name="description" value="New blog entry" />
<input type="hidde

Re:That would be easy to do...anywhere else

[asv108]

ugh, and I'm assuming that scraping the form key wouldn't work. This could end up being a very interesting little project.

I'm sticking to manual cut-and-paste

[MonTemplar]

That way I can check the links are still working, and also copy over any good additional comments by other folks (with credit to them, of course).

-MT.

I find blogs to be lacking in features

[John Harrison]

I have been reading and posting to some blogs and I find that I much prefer /. It seems to have much more baseline functionality. Blog users that are Wordpress wizards can add random freatures, but I find the /. posting system, friends, moderating, and reply notifications to be so useful that I have been trying to encourage a few MT and WP blogs to switch to slashcode.