jobserve has a crap ui...

[ewx]

...so I've fed the bit I'm interested in into a local newsgroup. News seems to be a good model for all sorts of things; while at Zeus I turned the perforce change lists into newsgroups, and I'm still convinced that news would be a good base to build something like livejournal on. (And of course it's the one true way to read mailing lists, though whether it's a news server or news reader that makes them look like news I'm agnostic about.) Perhaps we ought to have flexible personal news servers on every PC.

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[nmg.livejournal.com]

News would be an excellent base to build livejournal on - you could use the interface of your choice, rather than be shoehorned into the (mediocre) livejournal UI.

Of course, if the news system were reimplemented nowadays, news messages would be expressed in XML and transported using HTTP...