FriendFeed
I may have found something better than twitter that acts as a complement to Livejournal. FriendFeed lets you aggregate feeds from LiveJournal, Twitter, Facebook, etc. Though I'm still experimenting with it, it means I don't have to directly participate in certain social network (in particular, Facebook) and I get enhancements on what I normally do with Twitter (I use the web client; people have told me it is better to use a client).
One neat-but-scary feature is the "imaginary friend" feature. As far as I can tell, it let you create a proxy (and probably a private) account of your friends even if they are not directly on FriendFeed. As far as I can tell, it works only on public data. I do feel weird about creating profiles for other people (and so to appease the guilt, I usually add a '_' in front of the profile name). I have not figured out how to make proxy accounts to access my livejournal to see protected entries on my friends list ... and I don't really want to.
So I'm going to give this a try. I have already found out that due to the all-private-or-nothing nature of the FriendFeed, I won't be able to separate out posts like I do on LiveJournal. (Meaning that I will still have to do a business-friendly and a not-so-business-friendly version). Twitter works much better filtered through FriendFeed simply because I can categorize who each of the followers are. Then I can just check back on LiveJournal occasionally and very rarely log directly into Twitter. Heh, it also means I can sign up on Facebook without qualms (one of my baguazhang teacher is there !?!??).
Namaste
One neat-but-scary feature is the "imaginary friend" feature. As far as I can tell, it let you create a proxy (and probably a private) account of your friends even if they are not directly on FriendFeed. As far as I can tell, it works only on public data. I do feel weird about creating profiles for other people (and so to appease the guilt, I usually add a '_' in front of the profile name). I have not figured out how to make proxy accounts to access my livejournal to see protected entries on my friends list ... and I don't really want to.
So I'm going to give this a try. I have already found out that due to the all-private-or-nothing nature of the FriendFeed, I won't be able to separate out posts like I do on LiveJournal. (Meaning that I will still have to do a business-friendly and a not-so-business-friendly version). Twitter works much better filtered through FriendFeed simply because I can categorize who each of the followers are. Then I can just check back on LiveJournal occasionally and very rarely log directly into Twitter. Heh, it also means I can sign up on Facebook without qualms (one of my baguazhang teacher is there !?!??).
Namaste