How to view the post-LJ diaspora?

[andygates]

Various friends are moving (or have moved) to all sorts of other blog sites.  My LJ Friends page, once the one-stop shop for the good stuff, is starting to look a bit raggedy and it's only getting more so.

How's a chap supposed to keep all his friends' blogs in one easy roll?

Comments

[aldric.livejournal.com]

What you need is a client that allows you to log in to all those blog sites at the same time and presents them as a single entity. I'm not sure if such a thing exists though...

[andygates.livejournal.com]

Apparently there's something called Friendscreen on the HTC mobiles that gloms. I'll have to dig around, I think.

Of course, we still have to trust that - like you said at the weekend, if the middleware is unscrupulous, it will use my credentials' view of a friends-locked LJ (for example) to slurp interesting data from a privacy-concerned friend who is unaware of it. A knotty problem, that.

[aldric.livejournal.com]

Pretty much. I think a local client that runs on your desktop that you have to pay for is likely to be more trustworthy. A website that offers the services for free not so...