Can live clip be used as part of a true mashup platform?

Here’s what I am trying to do. I have two servers. One is serving up a series of internal enterprise blogs. The second is serving up a simple to-do list. Our users want to be able to paste an interactive version of their to-do lists into their blog posts. This is what I call an AJAX badge - although maybe I should call it a Mashet, but more on that later.

Our blogs are generally not read in reverse chronological order. Instead, we have kind of hacked the blogging tool to create an enterprise communication platform. One example of a blog type we have created is a “Project Blog”. If you mark a post with the category “Milestones” it shows up in the “Milestones” tab. People navigate the blog through a table of contents. You can see an example of a Table of Contents at Learning Movable Type.

Only certain people on the team have write access to each internal enterprise blog. For example, only the people on a given project can write to a given project blog. Those same folks have write access to the to-do list for that project. But, today, they have to log into two different systems. One system for the project blog and one for the to-do list. Ideally, users would be able to log into just one system and see the to-do list embedded within the blog post.

Say for example that the to-do list was being used to create the Milestones for a specific project. The work flow for a non-technical user would go like this:

1. Log into the project blog
2. Create a new entry with the title “Project Milestones” and the category Milestones
3. Write a brief introduction to the milestones
4. Insert an interactive to-do list that automatically has the same access control as the entry
5. Save and post the entry, knowing that the project team will always go back to that entry to add to the list of milestones, or mark things as being done.

For an example of an interactive to-do list, check out Ta-Da list’s Ta-Da Theater.

The interactive to-do list is an example of an AJAX Badge (or mashet widget).

The tricky part with this idea is creating a mechanism for telling the blogging software how to paint the AJAX Badge and also how to share some access control information with the system that is serving up the to-do list.

A few days ago, I posted this as a question to the Microsoft Live-Clip list asking if live clip itself could be extended to be used as the transportation mechanism.

When end users paste in the to-do list badge (or mashet), is there some way to use live clip to ask the blog server to synchronize up with the to-do list server on access control?

If we could figure out that piece, then I do not need to recode my enterprise blog server and my enterprise wiki tool every time someone comes up with a new interactive tool or widget.

This idea is in very early stages, and I would welcome any and all input on how best to approach the solution.