LiveJournal and Dreamwidth are so desolate, I think I have seen more than one person refer to them as ghost towns. Even though I have contributed to this by having so little to say for so long, and not saying what there was of it here, I'm not happy about this. The two of them are to my mind the best-structured of any sites I have tried which might ( Read more... )

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When I logged in to LiveJournal the other day they had a nifty video as a splash that was very clearly tailored as a response to the concerns people have been voicing about all the other social sites going. It certainly did a good job reminding me of what I've loved about LiveJournal as a platform that no other has lived up to.
Of course these ( Read more... )

Just deleted several weeks worth of spam comments. Clearly I should write more and more interesting things to avoid that happening.

Originally published at a denizen's entertainment. You can comment here or there.

I changed my gmail address recently. Consequently, the sidebar link on my LiveJournal home page which leads to items I've read and thought worth sharing has also been changed to match the new source.

Articles findable there are most likely to concern such topics as ( Read more... )

Sex?

A while ago I wrote a bit about erotic writing being perceived as less worthy and even shameful, and of resolving to defy that stigma by being not secretive concerning the writing of it. More recently and prompted by conversation I have been wondering if I ought do the same with sex generally ( Read more... )

I have said this before, although not here yet:
I think when we experience a desire to share music [or something else which may be the subject of a similar desire] with others this is often a proxy for a less commonly known or appreciated desire. I think what we often truly wish to share is the experience of the moment, the emotions that are being ( Read more... )

And this one produced a result worth sharing more widely.


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Since recently finding some slight ability to organise my time - this is how I have been able to be cleaning - I have also been using this new-found time to catch up on things I have let get away from me. This includes email and LiveJournal comments; I stopped making a policy of checking those in March 2007, so there is a fair bit of catching up to ( Read more... )

Just pretend nobody reads this.

The more I look at other social sites and blogging software the more I appreciate the control LiveJournal offers over filtering posts. Much of the time elsewhere I am not clear who will be able to see what and if I have any capacity to change this.