The problem with any external agent reading your lj is that you have to trust that agent with your lj password so that it can log in and see your friends-page friends-locked-entries. Probably similarly for facebook, and I dunno about twitter or xyz.
Supposing I could add such site specific features to something like Google Reader, would you trust Google with your lj/facebook/xyz login/password info?
Alternately, you need an app that logs in to $service and converts its special feeds into a generic RSS feed that any RSS reader can add to its collection. That RSS feed would be published at an unlisted long cryptographically random URL, which is poor security if anyone sniffs your packets. Maybe if it served over https it could be ok. And if that were an open source daemon, it could run on any handy geek's server, even yours. I know of no such daemon.
Is there any RSS reader that meets your demands, aside from the special service integration?
I use Google Reader for all of the above, except for friends-only entries I use a script running on a server that will take a particular LJ style feed and convert it to RSS for google reader's consumption. I also don't have to give Google my password in this case (at least not the same one as LJ).
I don't have twitter and I haven't tried to aggregate facebook, so I can't comment there.
This largely doesn't exist for LJ. Last time I looked at their API it didn't support access to comments.
I need to take a look again because there are backup tools for LJ and I *think* they're supposed to give you comments. This implies they may have updated the API. If so I might actually take a stab at this.
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Supposing I could add such site specific features to something like Google Reader, would you trust Google with your lj/facebook/xyz login/password info?
Alternately, you need an app that logs in to $service and converts its special feeds into a generic RSS feed that any RSS reader can add to its collection. That RSS feed would be published at an unlisted long cryptographically random URL, which is poor security if anyone sniffs your packets. Maybe if it served over https it could be ok. And if that were an open source daemon, it could run on any handy geek's server, even yours. I know of no such daemon.
Is there any RSS reader that meets your demands, aside from the special service integration?
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afaik, it doesn't, but i didn't look very hard...
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I don't have twitter and I haven't tried to aggregate facebook, so I can't comment there.
Otherwise, it does meet all of your requirements.
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I need to take a look again because there are backup tools for LJ and I *think* they're supposed to give you comments. This implies they may have updated the API. If so I might actually take a stab at this.
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