Kobold Quarterly Yeah, I joined WolfgangBaur’s OpenDesign a few days ago. I thought it was interesting that he runs his business using LiveJournal – visit his CustomAdventure blog and you’ll see some KobolQuarterly posts. If you pay USD 30, on the other hand, he’ll add you as a friend to his LJ account, and then you’ll see all his other blog posts as well – the ones where he reports on his play tests, design decisions made, or polls when he’s throwing ideas around.
On the one hand, this is cool. 😄
On the other hand, I don’t see how I can read his feed using BlogLines, as it doesn’t have my username and password, and thus it is not one of Wolfgang’s friends. Damn. :/
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I don’t know about BlogLines, but you can provide authorization details with NewsGator, perhaps that’s an alternative for your needs.
On a different angle, if your interested in RPG authors blogs, I’ve subscribed to two different ones: Robert D. Laws (published great stuff, like Robin’s Laws of Good Game Mastering, and Earthdawn stuff etc.) and Phil Brucato (the old World of Darkness Mage: the Ascension and more recently Deliria etc.) - perhaps others reading this blog have other links to share 😄
As for writers in general, I read the blogs from Dan Abnett, Elaine Cunningham, George R.R. Martin, Laurell K. Hamilton, Neil Gaiman and William Gibson...
– madalex 2007-07-01 22:01 UTC
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Well BlogLines is web-based, so I can read my feeds from anywhere. I tried to sign up using username, password, and asking for HTTP Digest Auth – `http://kensanata:secret@customadventure.livejournal.com/data/atom?auth=digest` – but unfortunately it doesn’t seem to work. 🙁
As for RPG authors I enjoy reading... I’ll have to go through my blog roll one of these days and pick a few selected ones I can really recommend. At the moment I’m still exploring.
– Alex Schroeder 2007-07-02 00:34 UTC
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Well, NewsGator is also web-based and free to boot ;)
– madalex 2007-07-02 10:49 UTC
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Somehow I was under the impression that NewsGator was a desktop application. Testing... It works! 😄
Hm...
– Alex Schroeder 2007-07-02 12:26 UTC
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NewsGator has also an Outlook plugin but I think you have to be a paying customer for that feature, not sure... I stopped using NewsGator a couple of months ago in favour of Google Reader as that is superior in parsing the the blogs and displaying them, plus is also faster in pulling the blogs in.
– madalex 2007-07-02 17:52 UTC
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Hm... Google Reader. Interesting option. I’ll have to investigate. I like GMail a lot. But then again, I try to use non-Google alternatives when possible for everything else. A vain effort of trying to spread the risk...
I contacted BlogLines and asked them about the setup because some web pages were claiming that it would work. So we’ll see what they say.
– Alex Schroeder 2007-07-03 00:14 UTC
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This is kinda moot, now that we’re moving to the forums, but what I did is I set up LJ to send me an email notification whenever Wolfgang posted a new blogpost. I never missed a post this way. Actually, it’s the one thing I am going to miss now that we’re going to the forums.
– Highmoon 2007-08-31 12:33 UTC
