This past week was a good example of why I like weblogs. Will Richardson started a discussion about student publishing that was picked up by serveral other folks. With comments and trackback the conversation took off. Greg Ritter over at Ten Reason's Why has listed a nice chronology of the discussion. This morning Matt Jadud wrote to me to suggest...

The fastest way to hide your content on the webserver (password protect it, etc.) will be to do it via an .htaccess file... (assuming you're running Apache)

I have been able to have MT save the alternate index file in the seperate directory, now will look into what Matt has suggested. Over the weekend I'll work to set up a demo...