Moving blogs

[cordelya]

I just finished installing MovableType on my website. Effective immediately, I am only posting to that blog. You may read the site by adding cordelya_rss to your friends list, or you may read the syndicated version via a news aggregator by clicking this button:

Comments

[dawntreader90]

sooo, you aren't using LJ any longer? just the cordelya_rss feed?

[cordelya]

Yeah, I've moved all activity (what little there is these days) onto my website. LJ just doesn't "feel" right anymore, and I'm looking forward to the increased level of control over things that a standalone weblog tends to provide. I set up the cordelya_rss feed using the RSS feed from my website.

I checked the output here, and with the cordelya_rss on your friends list, you'll be able to read what appears on the main page of my blog (ie - if a post has "read more" (a proverbial "cut"), you will only see what's above the "read more", and not what's behind the cut). Each entry on the cordelya_rss also includes a link to the whole entry, in case there is more, and I will try to make it obvious that there is more since the aggregator doesn't make it obvious. *And* since SixApart bought LJ, they're probably going to add the TrackBack feature to LJ, which may help with communication between my weblog and everyone else. I expect growing pains, but I think it'll work out nicely.

[dawntreader90]

that's cool. thanks for the details :)

[cordelya]

You can get a lot of information about how my new weblog functions from MovableType. I think the whole TrackBack thing is genius.

[dawntreader90]

one more thing... do you still have to be logged in via LJ to read friends-only LJ posts?

i'm assuming yes, but i thought i'd ask. i don't know how the whole feed vs. LJ vs. feed into LJ thing works.

[cordelya]

I haven't written a friends-only post in months, and my actual reading of my friends list has been sporadic at best. Lately my thought on the whole reading my friends list thing is that these days it seems that whenever I read the list, something on it upsets me, and I've been having enough upsetting things going on *without* help from the friends list that I haven't read it. Kind of self-defense. And actually, friends-only security is something I don't like about LJ. I think it tends to encourage cliques and exclusion, which, most times in my life when I've encountered them, it hasn't been a good thing.