in which I annoy others with my own annoyances

[substitute]

1. Youtube/other embedded video links presented without context, as a "click here

Comments

[mendel]

Use of regular LJ account to simulcast an outside blog.

For readers, there is no difference between using LJ's API to syndicate external content here and using RSS to syndicate external content here. For the author, on the other hand, syndicating with LJ's API lets the author control replication instead of counting on LJ's RSS reader.

Well, that's not true. One difference for readers is that LJ users expect friends to use LJ's friend mechanisms. I want to read my LJ friends' protected posts, and to do that I need to have a LiveJournal account that they friend. Presumably some of those people will also want to read my posts, so having my posts in the same account that I read their journals with lets me avoid having to tell people that they have to friend both my empty journal and a syndicated account if they want to both read me and allow me to read their protected entries. (Or, more directly: It avoids the problem where they forget to friend me, and then I never see their protected posts without even knowing that I'm missing them

[brianenigma]

I'm going to have to agree and restate/add

I am dum

[pilarcruz]

I like complaining and I'm good at it. Other than that, I have no idea what you are talking about.

[createdestiny]

Boy, am I with you on number 1.

[seriesfinale]

Youtube/other embedded video links presented without context, as a "click here."

Initially I thought you just meant the embedded links themselves, which I've been pretty guilty of lately. Lo Siento.

RE: # 4

[hawthorntree]

But, but, but there was actual shit involved in the shit I was complaining about!

Re: # 4

[kasheri]

My dear Hawthorntree, you complain to your heart's content. I like listening to it. (Now let me tell you about the idiot who messed up a nice, tidy resolution I'd mediated the day before...)