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23 September 2007

What is this? →[More:]It seems to be a Livejournal syndication of my flickr stream, but I have nothing to do with it and I did not set it up. Can anyone who understands livejournal please explain it to me? Does livejournal just do this with everyone's flickr photos?

post by: interrobang at: 17:18 | 9 comments

How weird! Seems iffy because there is a user name and number.

johnralston_s (12193178)

Unless, as you suggest, it is something automated, and the 's' is for 'syndication'.
Hope there is an explanation other than an imposter!!

posted by typewriter 23 September | 17:39

Did you see this? From Livejournal's FAQ.

posted by typewriter 23 September | 17:43

Anyone with a paid (I think) LJ account can take any RSS feed and turn it into an LJ syndication. The reason a person would do this is because they can then add that LJ syndication to their friends list. I just added your feed to my friends list in the hope I could find out who the other person is that created it, but so far no luck.

posted by misskaz 23 September | 17:55

Did you see this? From Livejournal's FAQ.

No, I didn't see that, thanks. I don't really want to block this, I just wanted to know what it was.

Anyone with a paid (I think) LJ account can take any RSS feed and turn it into an LJ syndication.

That's sort of what I suspected, and thanks for doing the investigative feed-adding! Please let me know if anything turns up.

posted by interrobang 23 September | 17:59

Anyone with a paid (I think) LJ account can take any RSS feed and turn it into an LJ syndication.

This is correct. I have people who have made LJ-type feeds of my accounts so that people on LJ can "friend" them.

posted by jessamyn 23 September | 18:01

So you don't have to be on LJ to be on LJ. Passive social networking! They should be promoting it more - could be the next big 2.0 thing.

posted by wendell 23 September | 18:07

I might've made it one day, but I doubt it. I'm glad you told me about it, though!

posted by Eideteker 23 September | 20:23

Yeah, anyone who has a paid acct can do this. Some LJ user set up a LJ for my site many moons ago.

posted by fluffy battle kitten 23 September | 20:34

All right, thanks, everyone!

posted by interrobang 23 September | 22:19

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