I posted recently in my old LiveJournal about how annoyed I was by the fact that Google Reader wouldn’t allow me to see locked entries, even when I was logged into LiveJournal. None of my LJ friends had found a workaround, so pre-“Project Runway” last night, I did a little Googling, and the first result that popped up was Scatmania’s LiveJournal for Google Reader.
It’s so easy: you go to the website, sign in with your LJ username, and up pops a list of all your LJ Friends. Click on the Google icon next to the person’s name, and voila!, the journal’s added to your Google Reader complete with Friends-Only entries. Now I don’t have to scroll through my endless Friends page to read the journals that I really want to keep up with, and I can see all of someone’s new entries together if he posts multiple times in one day.
Now that I’m using it, I seriously can’t imagine how my life could get much better. This is one of those things that makes me go, “OMG, the Internet is amazing,” even if the word scatmania has really gross connotations for me.
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Update 2010-12-07: Since this service hasn’t worked in quite some time, I recommend Free My Feed instead.
