I understand some people use LJ as an RSS reader, something I'll never quite get
For me, it's simple contextual separation -- I use Google Reader for work-related reading, and LJ for personal. That's not necessarily the optimal approach, but convenient given that most of my personal reading comes *from* LJ.
In the long run, I expect CommYou to supplant LJ for that purpose, but that's a bunch of stories off yet. (And it can't really do a *great* job unless I can come up with a way to export comment threads from LJ. I can kinda-sorta hack that with screen-scraping, but I don't yet have a good solution...)
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For me, it's simple contextual separation -- I use Google Reader for work-related reading, and LJ for personal. That's not necessarily the optimal approach, but convenient given that most of my personal reading comes *from* LJ.
In the long run, I expect CommYou to supplant LJ for that purpose, but that's a bunch of stories off yet. (And it can't really do a *great* job unless I can come up with a way to export comment threads from LJ. I can kinda-sorta hack that with screen-scraping, but I don't yet have a good solution...)