The jen_blogspot can be added to your friends list so that her blog entries show up just like how you've got your LJ friends, except that her entries are summarized, or cut off -- you'd still have to visit the actual blog to get the whole entry, but at least with this you'll know when she's updated her blog and have a general idea of what it's about.
The feeds are great for keeping track of most anything you want that has RSS feed capability. Here's the LJ FAQ page on the feeds: http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqcat=syn
If you have a paid account, you can create feeds for the LJ. I've made several and added them to my friends list so that I've got my own kind of "newspaper" all ready for me in the morning. :)
If you want to watch Joseph Mallozzi's wordpress blog, you'd subscribe to the LJ feed jmallozzi_blog, for example, and his entries are there for you to read without having to visit the blog itself, unless, of course, you'd like to read the comments.
Finding syndication feeds, as LJ calls them, can be a bit difficult, but go to http://www.livejournal.com/syn/ to see all of them (the top 20 are listed here). The box at the bottom of that page allows you to type in the URL of a feed you want to watch, and if someone has already created it for you, you'll be given the lj user name for it and asked if you'd like to friend it. If it doesn't exist, and you're a paid member, you can create one.
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The feeds are great for keeping track of most anything you want that has RSS feed capability. Here's the LJ FAQ page on the feeds: http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqcat=syn
If you have a paid account, you can create feeds for the LJ. I've made several and added them to my friends list so that I've got my own kind of "newspaper" all ready for me in the morning. :)
If you want to watch Joseph Mallozzi's wordpress blog, you'd subscribe to the LJ feed
Finding syndication feeds, as LJ calls them, can be a bit difficult, but go to http://www.livejournal.com/syn/ to see all of them (the top 20 are listed here). The box at the bottom of that page allows you to type in the URL of a feed you want to watch, and if someone has already created it for you, you'll be given the lj user name for it and asked if you'd like to friend it. If it doesn't exist, and you're a paid member, you can create one.