Six Apart BusinessWeek Article

[foxfirefey]

News gleaned from a comment by beckyzoole.

Six Apart's Booming Blogosphere (BusinessWeek Online) -- Updated: 5:00 p.m. PT Sept 25, 2006

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"MONEY COMES KNOCKING." indeed.

[a_muse_d]

Trott says Six Apart's new offering is focused not on early-adopting college kids but people who may have aged out of MySpace or LiveJournal's target audience and don't wants blogs to include random comments from teenagers.

that's the biggest load of horseshit ever. i bet half the Vox population are highschoolers who lied about their ages. as if that didn't happen here, too. but that's why i screen comments from people not on my friends list.

i had a Vox account for a couple of days but i'd mistyped the username and that alone pissed me off so much that i had them delete the account. or maybe they didn't, and it's still hovering out there, userless. hah. i wouldn't be surprised if they haven't just so they can keep the usercount up.

Two of Six Apart's tools are supported by ads. LiveJournal is a blogging and social-networking community primarily for the under-30 set, offering free, subscription, and advertiser-supported blog services. It alone boasts 11 million users. A recent addition, Vox, is similar to LiveJournal but has more privacy controls and is focused on a more mainstream audience. Since opening a test version in June, Vox has been completely advertiser-supported.

it would be nice if people could figure out and accept the fact that LJ has a little over 1 million ACTIVE journals and that most of the others aren't updated even once a year.

well clearly they want people that are older with a steady income to move to Vox where they will be constantly innundated by ads so they spend said income.

oh, wait, i ignore ads now, anyway. there's this thing called SATURATION and OVERSTIMULATION and knowing what's actually an ad that shuts it out from the concious mind. not that i ever want to see a flash ad on LJ, let alone a google ad. EVER.

okay, so flash ads amused me once or twice, but i'd kindly poke the eyes out of the person who thought they were a "great idea!!@!21!" because they give me headaches if i don't scroll them out of sight or block them entirely and make it so i have to click it for flash to play. which i've set my mozilla to do for all flash now, which sometimes makes me sad.

[a_muse_d]

i've plagiarized your entry in my own journal and linked it back to here.

[foxfirefey]

Wootles!