The internet has changed and left me here

[ataxi]

If the user population of sites such as LJ and Blogger is going to shrink and possibly disappear as a consequence of mass migration to Twitter, Facebook et al., what is there to do about it

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[mojave_wolf]

I confess to still liking it here; I have a twitter account that I've pretty much abandoned already.

I think LJ will stick around until some other sort of discourse that permits discussion and lengthy musings shows up; everyone will continue to read and comment on some blogs as well.

I'd read yours, tho as w/all stand-alone blogs, not quite so often as I read here. And hah! to the readership/quality correlation; I've seen people who write beautifully and have longstanding accounts w/f-lists in the low teens, and stumbled across some of the great dumbshits of all time who have hundreds or even thousands of friends. So, as with books and magazines, readership level and quality have only a glancing acquaintance. Your writing is quite good, tho.

[exp_err]

I think LJ will stick around until some other sort of discourse that permits discussion and lengthy musings shows up

I wonder whether that will be Google Wave. It sounds like it has that potential: a lot will depend on implementation and popularity.

[ataxi]

Do you have an invite by any chance? I wouldn't mind checking it out.

My chief concern with it was that it sounded a little over-complicated.

[exp_err]

No, I don't have an invite yet. From reviews I've read, it's hard to tell whether it would work for me. It could be over-complicated and disruptive, or it could just take a little time to adapt.

[ataxi]

I was more worried about wave content being in a form which was rather non-transferable to normal text media (unlike blog posts or even comments).

Provided you can "export" a wave to, say, decent quality HTML or XML it'd be ok.

[exp_err]

One of the features is that "waves" can be automatically published to a blog, if you so desire.

[exp_err]

and if other people using Wave comment on the blog post, their comments are integrated into the wave as well as being posted on the blog.