Memo for the floor...

[cadhla]

I try very hard to keep this journal separate from my professional journal, for a lot of things, many of which have to do with my wanting to still have one spot on the Internet where I can pretend my editors aren't watching what I do. I know it's pretense. I know that's not the reality. But I still try

Comments

[ravan]

You know, you have very odd problems some days.

As much as I hate to say it, you may have to take this journal friends only, which would cut a lot of your casual, but non-"Worshipful of the Pro™", readers, out. Until this new surge of "fans" settles out, you may have to turtle a bit.

I would be disappointed, of course, because I enjoy reading about the occasional odd encounter on BART, etc. But you need to keep the crazy at bay.

[archangelbeth]

Hm. That would probably be where I grovelingly offer Dreamwidth invite codes, since DW does allow one to allow people to read one's stuff, without having to subscribe to their journals in turn -- and it has a nearly seamless ability to cross-post to LJ. I adore it.

[azurelunatic]

If it's needed to move a whole chunk of people, the owners are quite agreeable about offering large numbers of codes, and group codes. And it plays somewhat better with OpenID than LJ does.

Though I still ♥ LJ very much.

[kyrielle]

I love Dreamwidth's access list / reading list split, in place of 'friends' for everything, so hard.

[lovefromgirl]

Dittoing this. It is made of awesome.

[ravan]

Yes, DW invite codes, I has them to give away too.

I post there, xpost to here and read here people tha aren't there yet.

I ♥ DW

[the_magician]

On LJ I friend people, and then just don't add them to my "default view" filter, so I never have to read them :-)

[nolly]

A variation would be to put the people you want to read in a Default View group, and friend the people you don't mind being read by. Unfortunately, I don't see an easy way to lock any current friends-only entries to just that group -- LJ's tool lets you switch among private, protected, and public, but not custom -- but some of the clients might be able to do it. (I don't know how often you make locked entries, as I'm not stalkerish enough to compare the calendar count to what I can see...)