le sigh...

[meganbmoore]

At some point today between 10:30 and 11:45, work decided LJ was an evil site that needed to be blocked.  This does not surprise me at all, as they've blocked My Space and at least one other blog site in the last 2 years, and several others, like meebo, as well.

HOWEVER!

I can still access http://insanejournal.com

But...uhm...either their website is hard to figure out, or I'm just amazingly internetspeak dumb(actually, I know I'm  that...) because i can't figure out how to feed entries there to LJ, or how to have my LJ f-list show up there.  Can anyone walk a very dim friend through that?  (I remember some people setting that up during one of the kerfluffles.)

(I did find the section that supposedly tells you how to do it on their site, but...I think they expect you to already know how to do it.  Have I mentioned that I consider my ability to master LJ's rich text function and achievement?)

This reminds me that when I was internet-less for a few months last year, I was getting through 800+ page books in about a day and a half... 

ETA:  Insane Journal account is http://meganbmoore.insanejournal.com

If nothing else, I shall likely at least post there during the day tomorrow.

ETA 2:  And if anyone knows of any better options(except greatest journal, as its server is overloaded) let me know.  (Anything to keep me sane at work...)

Comments

[snarp]

This is the result of some massive and irritating research I did on this after some LJ kerfluffle or other:

The short answer is that you can only do that if you have a paid/permanent/etc account. The long answer is long, and from looking at your friends list, the caveats don't apply in this case anyway.

If you do have a paid account, at the bottom of the syndication page there's a form that says "Add feed by URL." You can add each of your LJ friends individually (not all at once) by putting the addresses for each of their individual RSS feeds into the box. An RSS feed address looks like this:

http://USERNAME.livejournal.com/data/rss

or

http://community.livejournal.com/COMMUNITYNAME/data/rss

However, you can't see friends-locked posts this way.

If you've got access to Google Reader or Bloglines at work, a faster thing to do would be to set up an account at one of those, then use this tool on your friends list, then take the file that that gets you and use those sites' Import features to upload it.

Again, though, this won't show you friends-locked entries. It also won't show you entries by certain people who've done weird things to their RSS feeds for privacy reasons (several people on my list have), and won't preserve cut-tags. (I'm not sure whether IJ does that either, actually.)

[snarp]

(Uh, and that was entirely about reading an LJ friends list on IJ, not pushing entries made on IJ to LJ. I know there are tools for doing that with Wordpress, but I know nothing of how you'd do it with IJ.)

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Ah, thanks. If it doesn't get unfirewalled, I supect I'll end up feeding my f-list there, and then posting there throughout the day and then crossposting to my LJ when I get home.

[snarp]

No problem.

[southerndave.livejournal.com]

"ETA: Insane Journal account is http://www.meganbmoore.insanejournal.com"

Um... no it isn't. Try leaving out the "www."

goes to add its RSS feed to his reading list

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

FIXED! Thanks. (Of course, pretty much all of it should end up here anyway...just later...)

[peta-andersen.livejournal.com]

The Firefox add-on, ScribeFire, is quite useful, allowing you to write within a split window and post directly to many services--I'm not sure if LiveJournal is included, though.