Do any of y'all use Goodreads? Just curious. My interest is piqued, but I hardly need to keep up with yet another web site. Still, I'd be interested in hearing about it from any of you who do use it.

Today marks three weeks to the day since I joined Twitter. I've gathered a lot of information about it during that time. This will not surprise anyone who knows me well: if something really sparks my interest, I immediately enter full-on research mode and must obsessively devour completely immerse myself and learn everything I can until I feel like ( Read more... )

Handling online life after real life death:

• Deaths of gamers leave their online lives in limbo (LiveJournal)
• New services promise online life after death (CNN)

I don't think I need a Legacy Locker; as long as one keeps one's will up-to-date with such information, I don't see that it is necessary. Still, I'd want my husband or designated ( Read more... )

streamweaver did something quite nifty: he generously created a personalized meme for his LJ friends by asking questions designed just for them. I'm delighted to have my own little mini-interview, particularly because, as a journalist, I'm more often the interviewer, rather than the interviewee! Sincere thanks, Scott. They're good questions, and some of them ( Read more... )

I don't normally do much with LiveJournal memes, but I sort of like the historic connection value of this one. (It occurs to me in a stream-of-consciousness sort of way that the word meme, broken down into syllables, is me! me! *grins* Given the way they're generally used in journals, I think it's rather apt.) Anyway, the question:

Where and ( Read more... )

I think I am finally bored with DAoC. I really don't like the direction the new expansion is going; I definitely want to take the guild leader hat off. I have wanted the latter for a while, but kept going. The guild is going really well right now, but the game itself . . . it just feels so effortful, so laborious to log on, and a game shouldn't be ( Read more... )

weetanya brought this up in her LJ some time ago, but it's something I'd been wondering about as well. I just wonder . . . how much do you feel like you're "performing," or writing for other people? Is your journal just for you, and whoever reads it does so at their own risk, as it were?

Poll Defining Your LJ

Excitement from the Long Lost Internet Friends Department:
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Got that DVD we ordered from the guy on eBay - whew. This is part of why I don't do online auctions 99% of the time - I was getting very worried. Matter of fact, I literally had the site for SquareTrade pulled up in Mozilla, ready to fill out a request for mediation, just when I stopped to go check the mail for the day to give the guy one last ( Read more... )