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I have moved most of my non-personal RSS feeds over to Google Reader so things like Neil Gaiman's blog and the VG Cats comic are no longer cluttering up my friends page. More significantly, I'm experimenting with reading scans_daily and ihasatardis that way too. This means I am more likely to read any given LJ post, as the noise-to-signal ratio has dropped sharply. We apologise for any inconwenience.
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Well, I thought about the filter thing, but I couldn't see any immediate way to have them not appear in the default view (can you set one of the filters as default?), and I can't be bothered remembering the syntax to browse to a filter (I can remember http://kingandy.livejournal.com/friends, and can type it in from anywhere).

The key difference, though, is that Google Reader is an actual RSS reader, not just an aggregator, so when you load it up it immediately tells you if there are any new posts. You don't have to engage your brain and try to remember if you've read something before. This is important for a bear of little brain like myself.

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If you create a filter called default_view (I think) then whatever you put on that becomes the default which shows up when you just type kingandy.livejournal.com/friends/ (as long as you're logged in).

I don't know if it's just a paid-feature, but I have an LJ toolbar at the top of my screen (part of the site, not the browser) and that has a dropdown list of all of my filters, so I can switch between them easily from my friends page.

Good point about the reader vs. aggregator though. I'll check it out.