First,
damned_colonial has a nifty how-to on getting a read-only Dreamwidth account using your Live Journal identity as an OpenID provider.
Note well that if you have an AOL, WordPress.com, or Yahoo! account, you can use that as an OpenID as well.
Second, I’m probably going to look into emigrating there once the Open Beta starts. It was Colonial’s Ada Lovelace Day post that sold me on what the Dreamwidth team is doing.
Third, I’ve set up my read-only account there, so give me a shout if you have posting access so I can start following you there.