Yeesh. When you’re moving text around among browsers and Javascript and PHP and MySQL, and when that text is coming from outside sources (copied and pasted from web pages by LGF users), sometimes the character encoding and translation issues can become … intense. Yes, I’m coding away at LGF Linkage again, and I think I finally have the worst of the character encoding issues whipped, but good.

Meanwhile, LGF Linkage is slowly morphing into a more free-form blog/diary system for LGF users. Instead of making each post be tied to just one link, similar to Digg or Reddit, each registered LGF user will now get his/her/its own blog, or diary, or whatever you want to call it. The URL field in the bookmarklet is now gone; instead, when you click the bookmarklet while viewing a web page, the URL of the page is inserted into the description field as an HTML link, followed by any text you selected. You can edit any of these fields, of course.

Coming next: you’ll be able to put tags on your posts, to further help in categorizing and searching, similar to the tags you see at the bottom of each LGF front page article.

“LGF Linkage” will need a new name, since it’s not so focused on single links, and I’m leaning toward “LGF Pages.”