Google Reader as a Buddy LIst
All hail Bluesleepy!
Thank you!
She has figured out how we are all going to stay informed about who's updated, even for those of us who've left dland. In brief:
1. Go to google.com/reader.
2. Log in to your google (gmail) account, or create one, if you need to.
3. Click the Add Subscription button.
4. Put in the URL of one of your non-dland diaries that you read, like mine.
5. Wash, rinse, repeat.
You'll end up with a list of the diaries you read, and it will show you how many of the recent entries you haven't read yet. On this first day, you may want to click that you've read all the entries for each of the diaries. From now on, keep this page open in a separate tab or window, and whenever you refresh the page, you'll see which diary has a new post for you to read.
It won't work for dland, but we still have our red links on the buddy page for that.
Good luck! It took me a few minutes to figure it out, and I still have tinkering to do, but it looks like a good option. (I also like that I can check for updates at work without being logged in to dland!)
watching Batman :: entry #1483
It CAN work for Diaryland, if you enter the link manually as follows:
ReplyDeletehttp://chailife.diaryland.com/index.rss
replacing "chailife" with the name of the diarist in question.
You won't get the full entry, because the RSS file doesn't generate it right (thanks again, Andrew) but you don't have to log into Diaryland to read people's diaries.
The only problem is that RSS files are not generated for locked diaries, so you might still want to log into D'Land to see if they updated. Me, I just add locked diaries to my browser's Favorites and check them manually, since D'Land doesn't let me comment on them anyway.