Josh Brown () brought to my attention at ICon that he (and apparently others – looking at you, ) are posting comments to the syndicated feed of my blog at LiveJournal. Now, this is a pretty bad idea, because while those entries show up just fine in someone’s Friends page, from LJ’s point of view, they are just stuff it took from some external web page – there’s no user to notify when someone comments, for example. The result is that I have no idea when someone posts any comment to the syndicated feed, so I miss any comments there. I could direct everyone to my blog, but I think some of them may prefer the LJ commenting system (with preview and spellcheck and whatever).
I also have my own LJ user (), which I use to comment and read friends-only or LJ users only posts.
So I’m experimenting with LivePress, which is a set of WordPress plugins for posting to LiveJournal through WordPress. If these work, I’ll ask my LJ readers to replace with .
And this is my first test post, so it probably won’t work, but here goes.
OK, it works! I must have missed a checkbox or something.