Geek. Gamer. Reader. Non-Compliant.
LJ 2008 community Six Apart is selling its LiveJournal blogging platform to Russian media company SUP Blogging pioneer Six Apart is breaking apart from LiveJournal, another trailblazer that helped bring online journals to the masses. The nearly three-year marriage is dissolving with Six Apart’s sale of LiveJournal to Russia-based SUP a deal expected to be announced Monday. The financial terms aren’t being disclosed. Huh. Interesting.
OK, I’m out. From now on my sporadic blatherings will be on my WordPress ‘blog, and will be crossposted to my InsaneJournal. For those who would prefer to read on their LJ friends list rather than on a separate page, I’ve made LJ feeds for both my ‘blog, and my InsaneJournal. [Edit: Don’t bother with the IJ feed; it doesn’t work right. I’m fairly sure it’s on IJ’s end.] Just click the appropriate link to add it to your friends list. Theoretically, they should be identical. Theoretically. I’m not sure how often (or how well) LJ updates syndicated feeds. You…
If you buy during the first 36 hours of the sale, we’ll donate $25 of your purchase price among four organizations: RAINN, Witness, the EFF and Creative Commons. And if you want your donation to go to just one of the organizations you can instruct us to do that too. So each group gets 1/4 of $25 for each permanent account? Nice gesture, anyway. Many people have expressed their outrage and dissatisfaction with Six Apart policies far better than I. So, I’ll just use an image. News post – LJ Biz post The process of backing up my journal, and…
Too little, too late, too clueless. My choices are: Stay at LJ through laziness and fear of losing what readership and/or community I have there. Move to GreatestJournal (I’m jenbooks there, of course) – it has more word of mouth right now, but a clunky version of LJ Move to InsaneJournal (I’m jenbooks there, too) – it’s got a newer version of the LJ software, but it’s not known very well. Move to MySpace HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA – no. Actually use my very own wordpress blog – see first point of laziness and readership. Some combination of the above The funny thing…
Because bronxelf_ag001 is far more eloquent than I: Writing about a thing (especially writing about a fictional account of a thing, using fictional people, in fictional situations) is not a crime. It is NOT THE EQUIVALENT OF ONE, either. Writing about incest Harry Potter fic where all the Weasleys are having mad naked donkey sex with a hoover and a bag of Mrs. Botts Everyflavour Beans *doesn’t make you a pedophile*. It makes you a very silly person, but it doesn’t make you a pedophile. I don’t give a rat’s ass HOW sick you think it is. If you think…