GeeJay's cuter to say than ElJay.
I've already lost track of who I gacked the link from, but this is a great report on the Six Apart/WfI event: Six Apart casts “evanesco”. Fanfic authors cast “expelliarmus”.
There’s an interesting opportunity for fanfic communities on LiveJournal at this juncture - they could move, en masse, to another provider who pledged to project their rights aggressively, and to remove content only after review, and only in the more serious cases. Or Live Journal could attempt to win back the faith of their community by demonstrating that they understand the seriousness of the mistake they’ve just made. Will either happen? It likely depends on how comfortable fanfic writers are holding private conversations in the legal equivalent of the food court of a mall… or how comfortable Six Apart is hosting communities that they don’t understand.
While I don't feel particularly worried about the future of LJ, I did think it'd be prudent (and fun and different -- 2000 icons!) to get my greatestjournal set up. (I also reserved "firesignwriter" at insanejournal, though I haven't done anything with that one yet.) Diversity and experimentation are the keys to evolutionary success. No need to keep all the eggs in the LJ basket, eh?
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There’s an interesting opportunity for fanfic communities on LiveJournal at this juncture - they could move, en masse, to another provider who pledged to project their rights aggressively, and to remove content only after review, and only in the more serious cases. Or Live Journal could attempt to win back the faith of their community by demonstrating that they understand the seriousness of the mistake they’ve just made. Will either happen? It likely depends on how comfortable fanfic writers are holding private conversations in the legal equivalent of the food court of a mall… or how comfortable Six Apart is hosting communities that they don’t understand.
While I don't feel particularly worried about the future of LJ, I did think it'd be prudent (and fun and different -- 2000 icons!) to get my greatestjournal set up. (I also reserved "firesignwriter" at insanejournal, though I haven't done anything with that one yet.) Diversity and experimentation are the keys to evolutionary success. No need to keep all the eggs in the LJ basket, eh?
I'm answering comments/mail in fits and starts...