teaching OpenOffice to spell "interdisciplinarity"

[extemporanea]

My last two days have rather bizarrely shadowed my experience in this job, insofar as (a) actually, when you get down to it I really don't enjoy taking minutes, but (b) I'm very good at it. This was a two-day workshop entailing the second instalment of discussions between a bunch of smallish departments in the Faculty plotting a merger into one

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[anonymous]

I hear Dreamwidth is nice. ;)

But seriously, it seems to be getting much more traction than previous clones like Insanejournal and it's run by people who Get It on a fundamental level.

I really don't get the point of the crossposting. Why would I want to crosspost *an individual comment*, context-free, on either Facebook or Twitter? At least on Facebook there is presumably enough room for the whole comment and a link back to the original post, and it'll be no more incoherent than normal wall-to-wall conversations, but Twitter?! It seems like an utterly bizarre thing to do. And I won't be doing it.

[ext_5398]

Um, epic commenting fail. That was me.

[extemporanea]

As commenting fails go, I'm afraid that doesn't actually qualify as epic. More routine.

I have heard good things of Dreamwidth, indeed, but I think I might go WordPressy on my own site rather, at least then I'll have control of Stuff. And, yes, completely with you on the "bizarre and inexplicable" thing, the degree of self-congratulation necessary to repost your own decontextualised comments seems a bit extreme. But it's mostly annoying as a deeply stupid move on LJ's part: it's either unbelievably short-sighted and deeply dumb about the nature of social networks, or it's some kind of wholly commercial move which profoundly doesn't care about the members of said social networks and what they might think. I'm kinda insulted, actually.

[ext_5398]

Oh, right, you already have hosting! WP for the win, then. It's pretty easy to maintain, and you can have everything exactly how you like it.

I just nuked my FB account. The only reason I opened it in the first place was to be able to access the CLAWs group, and nobody uses that anymore. So.

[xavierxalfonso]

Cross-linking is clearly of the devil, whatever the reasoning behind it. Even worse, if I've correctly read the LJ information you linked to: it's one-way - once you've cross-posted, subsequent editing in LJ is no reflected in FB (presumably it's therefore also un-deletable).

But it seems you have to actively activate cross-posting, and then be simultaneously logged in to Livejournal and Facebook for it to work. In other words, anyone with any sense probably won't do it. I hope.

[extemporanea]

It is absolutely fatal to rely on everyone being possessed of actual sense. Even reasonably common-sensical people can click a link in a moment of madness. Also, it's the principle of the thing, dammit!

[bend_gules]

Being something of a luddite seems to be working in my favour. No FB, no Twittering, no iPhone, no lost bandwidth. Ignorance is bliss.

[tngr_spacecadet]

Well done on the note taking! (And thanks for the books by the way, I have DEVOURED them already).

More and more people are cancelling their facebook accounts because of privacy issues, which is a pity as it is a useful social tool on the one hand and a useful professional networking tool on the other.

[bumpycat]

Being out of the loop a bit, this is news to me. And bloody annoying. Stuff that I post on LJ, although I write very carefully, could cost careers or even lives. Like you, my LJ and FB are separate entities.

WP on hosted site is the way forward. I'll have to start migration forthwith.

[extemporanea]

I think I'm likely to leave Facebook before I leave LJ - as Frog says, LJ is such a nice network, unlike a personal WP blog. Having no Facebook to link to does minimise damage, but it's really a matter of time before LJ does something else stupid. Sigh. And I thought the custom CSS code had worked, but nope, repost buttons still bloody here. Phooey.

[extemporanea]

oh, no, wait, it did work! I think the new journal style futzed it up somehow, but I've repasted and the ticky boxes have gone, yay!

[kadekraan]

When I closed my FB account (the one under my real name) in 2007 it was a major mission to get them to delete the account. Like a number of these sites, they want to deactivate your account instead, and keep your information "in case you change your mind". I would snort in an unladylike fashion if that attitude didn't make me want to strangle people until their eyes bleed instead. I had to talk to FB support staff to get everything removed, and this process also involved me having to delete a bunch of stuff manually for reasons only know to FB software architects.

Lo and behold, when that August 2010 security hole was announced (enter email address with wrong password and get back person's name) and I tried the email address I used in 2007 for my old account with a wrong password, I got back my real name! So much for a complete wipe of my account from their servers.

But you never know, maybe it's much easier now to remove an account. Snort.