dagg's Journal: How to monitor /. journals...

So, you randomly came across someone's journal, and for one reason or another, you want to keep an eye on that journal. There are several ways to monitor a Slashdot journal, but most of them aren't listed in the Slashdot Faq.

Monitoring your Slashdot friends' journals:

If you like someone's journal, then by all means, make that special someone your Slashdot friend. Once you've done that, there are several ways you can monitor his or her journals:

1. Click on and/or bookmark the journals link. That page gives a summary list of all of your friends' journals.
2. Bookmark your amigos . That link allows you to page through every journal your friends have ever made.
3. Edit your Messages Preferences and turn on "Journal Entry by Friend". Now you'll be notified on the Slashdot homepage whenever a friend posts a new journal.

Other ways to monitor journals:

If you don't like using the Slashdot "friends" feature to keep track of journals, or maybe you prefer to browse Slashdot anonymously, you still have some choices:

1. Go to the user's journal and bookmark it. Make sure you bookmark the user's main journal page, and not a specific journal entry. Just make sure the URL looks like this: http://slashdot.org/~username/journal .
2. Point your RSS reader to the RSS version of your user's journal. For example, to keep track of CmdrTaco's journal, point your RSS reader to:

   http://slashdot.org/journal.pl?op=list&uid=1&content_type=rss

   You can monitor any Slashdot user's journal by changing the uid in the URL above and adding it to your RSS reader. Make sure you only monitor the journal a couple of times throughout the day, or you might get banned! Checking once every 90 minutes is probably Ok, but checking once every 20 minutes is probably not Ok.

That's about all the ways I can think of. Let me know if anything I listed is unclear, or if you have more ideas.

--dagg

Ok...

[Surak]

You can post now. :) Basically the reason I set my journal as friends and friends of friends only is that I've had problems with trolls. One particularly annoying troll seems to think I'm the original fan whore, ekrout. I wouldn't be surprised if out of total desperation he replies to this message here. The loser.

Of course, while I have managed, somehow or other, to attract a fair number of fans, I do not engage in fan whoring. If you don't want to be my friend, fine. I don't care. You can always, as

Ooo!

[Tomble]

I knew about the messages, but the other 2? How the crap did you find those out?

I'm constantly impressed by how little I know...