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→ So today there was an awesome ladies podfic anthology posted at halfamoon. rhea314 read my teeny tiny [out-of-nowhere] fic, to the other side, about luisa from y tu mama tambien. I'm very honored to be a part of it and it's really neat to hear someone reading your work. So you guy should go check it out if you want

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Well this comment thread right here? I'd call that a public conversation. And at the same time a one-on-one. People can see it and could respond if they want to. But it's here in this entry, I'm responding directly to your comment, you get an e-mail when there's a response and vice versa. Every time I make a public response, my entire flist doesn't have to see it. If somebody is interested in a particular conversation, they can easily come back here to see what else has been said. They could even track the post if they really want to see every time someone comments to this post -- like their own personal "dash" update. It makes sense that it's here and not scattered about in 7 different posts. It's just logical to me. I will never understand why somebody thought it was a great idea to make that sort of interaction impossible, or at least exceedingly difficult, over there. [Not entirely impossible of course, if you had a layout that had disqus, and you turned it on, and if you had a disqus account, and if your followers had disqus accounts, which NO ONE DID.]

Anyway, I totally agree with you. And I am still super bummed that the art has sort of disappeared from LJ. I do have some tumblrs on syndicate though, which you can set up if you have a paid LJ account. (Maybe even if you don't have a paid LJ?) So I do still see some tumblr posts on my LJ. There are really only a few that I still follow though. I can always add more if I feel the need.

ETA AGAIN: You can follow syndicates without having a paid LJ, but I think you have to have a paid account to create a new one -- is someone hasn't already created one from the RSS feed. And in that case all you'd have to do is subscribe to see the updates on your flist.

[ozmissage]

I might have to look into that. It would make things easier to have the few blogs I like just show up here because I only make it over there about once a week anyway and that's like a year in Tumblr time. ;)