How in the world am I supposed to juggle two blogging sites?

[thistlechaser]

As of this morning, I think half of my active friendslist is gone to DW. Many of them (more than half?) aren't crossposting to LJ. I'd really rather not lose contact with people, but I barely keep up with my friends page on LJ, I don't think I could keep up with a DW circle(? is that the right term? Circle?).

Ugh. I don't blame people for leaving if that's what they want to do. I just wish there were an easy way to pull all the posts I want to read on LJ, DW, and elsewhere into one big feed.

You can make an RSS feed of your journal on either site, I wonder why you can't get a feed for your friendspage/circle? That would solve this problem.

Ah ha, hmmm, LJ DOES have a feed for your friendspage! http://user.livejournal.com/data/rss_friends (But that works only if you have a "professional" level account, which luckily I do.) So I suppose I could read on DW and pull my LJ friends list in there...

Well how do you like that. I made this post to complain, and by the end of it I solved my own problem.

I suppose now I have to somehow set up crossposting to both places...

Just to be confusing: I'm thistlechaser there (no underscore). Follow me here for the most likely chance of seeing my new posts. Follow me there to see them if I get this crossposting thing worked out.

Comments

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

I'm not moving, that's off the table (sorry!). Current plan looks like I'm going to post on LJ and read on DW. If I post on DW and let it crosspost to LJ, then I lose icon selecting ability, not to mention issues with locked posts (if I ever want to lock one).

I used your idea! For you and anyone else who wants, there's a RSS feed of my LJ posts. I think you're right, it won't pick up locked ones (I think), but like I said, I almost never lock them.

Anyone can use this to see my LJ posts on your DW page: http://thistlelj-feed.dreamwidth.org/

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

FWIW, if the situation changes and you decide to go with DW, which I understand you're not at the moment:

you can lock posts from the DW cross-poster. And, in fact, use filters that transfer over to LJ. (Or more accurately, were transferred from LJ to begin with.) The icon stuff, that's more of a problem, alas.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Hm, that's good to know about the locked posts, at least!

You'd think someone would have coded something by now to make all -journal sites more interactive...