The last couple of months, the nice team at 6Apart (gods bless and keep them, and may they finally be visited by the Angel of Cluebat at some stage) have been sending me these little friendly "newsletters" about what's going on in LJ-land. Which would be *great* - if I'd signed up for them in the first place. As it stands, I'm reasonably damn ( Read more... )

6Apart are currently demonstrating if there's a prize for "complete lack of clue demonstrated by a blog service host", they're in the running this year.

Details at this location. The original post where they announce it (which is at lj_biz, rather than news) is over hereNope, they still aren't going to be getting my money. End of this paid account, they ( Read more... )

Books giant 'threatens publishers' over margins

Australian publishers are reeling after being told one of the country's biggest book store chains will not stock their books unless they pay thousands of dollars within weeks ( Read more... )

Business groups launch pro-WorkChoices campaignAs expected, a coalition of business groups are getting together to promote the Howard government's Work Choices regime. This is perfectly understandable, given the man people who obtain the "choices" through this system are the employers. They want the laws kept, highlighting a "danger to the ( Read more... )

WorkChoices ad pulled after staff rip-off claim

The Federal Government has withdrawn one of its WorkChoices advertisements after an actor who also ran a painting business was accused of failing to pay one of his staff ( Read more... )

http://copperbadge.livejournal.com/1382363.html

http://imaginarycircus.livejournal.com/123898.html

http://community.livejournal.com/innocence_jihad/159327.html

Oh, and all the comments here: http://news.livejournal.com/102095.html (start at about page three).

http://community.livejournal.com/lj_biz/241428.html?thread=11268884#t11268884I see 6A ( Read more... )

There are days when I realise that my cynicism is somewhat eclipsed by that of the Universe. This is one of them.

US cannot account for 190,000 guns in Iraq: report

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For starters - I'm not going to be getting a GreatestJournal account[1]. I'm not going to be quitting this LJ account. I'm not going to be stomping off in high dudgeon to another site, and playing the whole game all over again ( Read more... )

So, the online interview of Chris Williams of FanLib (abbreviated hereafter as FL) by Professor Henry Jenkins has been and gone. FL haven't answered any questions, and they're still playing the dazed and confused line, trying to convince everyone that the fans on LJ are completely and utterly bonkers, power obsessed, and just too demanding. This ( Read more... )

First off, happy birthday to smtfhw. Many happy returns, and dancing rodents ( Read more... )