Feeding Blogs into My Head

[harmalicious]

I've come across a shit load of people's blogs that I adore, and I would love to feed them into livejournal. BUT it doesn't look like that is an option. What do you guys suggest as far as a user-friendly blog feeder? I still prefer livejournal for my blogging and to see all your blogs, but I want a simple way to subscribe to others. OK, the

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[electrcspacegrl]

I just wish there was an easy way to get blog updates directly emailed to me. Or is there? I still don't quite understand how to use RSS feeds, but I know I've subscribed to blog email updates before and now I cant figure it out (though I realize it depends on the blog).

Not sure I know the answer to your question, unless you want to use Google Reader. I haven't really used it so I don't know if it's what you're looking for or not.

[harmalicious]

Ya, I'm going to go with Google Reader if I can't figure out how to feed my LJ. Ya, I have no idea how to get shit emailed to me. If it all just fed to my lj, it would all be good.

[electrcspacegrl]

Oh wait. You can read RSS feeds on LJ. They call them syndicated accounts. I've used them myself. It's in the FAQ: How do I watch feeds on my Friends list? What are syndicated accounts?

[catalyst2]

The only thing I haven't quite figured out is how to get new RSS feeds onto LJ that aren't on the list of RSS feeds.

[electrcspacegrl]

Do you know if you can get RSS feeds emailed to you? It makes no sense that wouldn't even be an option. If everything could just be emailed to me, then I can read everything from one spot. I don't have energy to keep up with google reader when I have twitter and so many sites to keep up with already.

[catalyst2]

You can get RSS feeds e-mailed to you but I think that's independent of LJ. Inside LJ, I don't think you get notifications of RSS feeds.

[electrcspacegrl]

I'm aware of that. I'm not the one who's looking for LJ feeds, that's harmalicious. ;) She wants all her feeds in LJ, and I want mine in email.

So can you tell me how to implement that or where I can start? I've tried this before and came up completely stumped.

[catalyst2]

External to LL, I think you just subscribe to the RSS feed on the site, providing that they've set it up and notifications should come through - I used to get all Jane Espenson's posts that way and I get soccer results that way, for example. The two were quite different though - JE's actual posts used to come through as the text of the email whereas the soccer results come through with the link to the results only as the text of the e-mail.

[harmalicious]

I think you have to have a paid account to get new RSS feeds in your lj which I don't. I started a Google Reader and it actually works really nicely. Thanks for you guy's help! ESG - good luck with figuring it out!!