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Bloglines?

http://www.livejournal.com/users/stewardess_lotr/111539.html

Your thoughts?

(Since the whole Frienditto thing, I've put everything that might ID me under lock, and I'm not thinking of repeating the procedure. Hopefully there won't be another incident that would have me remove EVERYTHING personal in this LJ, but que sera, sera, eh?)

[edit] btw,

jmtorres is hosting a Dragaera Fic Challenge.

Dunno what Dragaera is?

Read Witchcraft by Truth. Trust me, it's wonderfully readable even if you don't know the fandom and it's awesome and it'll make you hunting for more...

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I'm of mixed feelings. It does remind me of google in that google sometimes archives content that's been deleted or whatever (hell, I recovered a good chunk of my old website after it got TOSed that way!), but it still feels kind of skeevy-- especially as there's no way of filtering my very 13+ journal out. Mine hasn't been archived, I note, and neither has yours.

I say leave them to it -- some kid is gonna see some 18+ fic or art and some parent is going to get really really mad, and it'll be Bloglines's fault.

I saw another person on my flist raise a concern about this yesterday, and I'm a little confused as to why it's coming up now. Bloglines has been around for quite awhile... I've been registered with the site for over a year. Not to mention, every Live Journal account has had an avaiable RSS feed since LJ's inception. (Or, at least in the 2 1/2 years I've had an account.)

Bloglines is only one of dozens, if not hundreds of RSS readers who do the same thing. Yahoo, AOL, MSN, Kinja, and all the Blogger/Blogspot/TypePad blog services are just a couple.

harriet_spy pretty much covers what I think about Bloglines.

RSS feeds are a *good* thing. They're one of the major ways LJ is interoperable with other blogreading software, they've been part of the LJ service forever, and I put up links to the RSS and Atom feeds of my LJ on my front page over a year ago to make things easier for people who prefer blog aggregators. The entire argument seems to be the result of people too naive or too much in denial to realize that once you put something online, it's public--and once you've made something public, other people may retain copies of it even after you've decided to withdraw it from circulation.

I personally think it's just another round of "if it's public, people will do stuff with it".

Dude! Thanks for the calming, common sense reality check.

I think the problem is that a) Bloglines archives the feed and b) some people take their TOS to mean that Bloglines claims ownership of all content. OTOH, they're pretty good at deleting feeds if the owner complains.

BTW, Livejournal can be used as an RSS reader too. I aggregate about 50 feeds into my friends page, including some blogs, webcomics and sundry others.

Ah, I see that the 'they say they own content!' stuff was overblown as I suspected. I still worry a little about some tweenie finding my porn and flipping, but I suppose that'll be Bloglines' problem....

I note that my real blog is there, but not my LJ.

Interesting.

I'm loving that fic, have no idea what fandom it's from but at this point it's not a problem!

=D yay!

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