On the 9th of April, I deleted my LiveJournal. I wrote about it at length. Suffice it to say that I, too, share in the concerns of many many other users that the new Terms of Service imposed on LiveJournal's user base pose too great a threat to the rights of users to be tolerable ( Read more... )

Dwight on Facebook linked to a Metafilter feature noting that the servers of Livejournal--the social networking and blogging platform I got started on, the social networking and blogging platform that I still use--has moved to Russia. In light of that country's issues with basic freedoms, it's probably worth considering ending blogging on this ( Read more... )

Two weekends ago, I had to reset the passwords on my different social networks. My E-mail had somehow become compromised, and my Facebook was briefly used to post spam in a single discussion group, so everything had to be changed, immediately.

I had to go to Facebook; I had to go to Livejournal, that site that started everything; Google+ and my ( Read more... )

Some time ago, Bruce Sterling linked to Anil Dash's essay (published at Medium) describing the many features of the early blogosphere that were lost in subsequent generations, but could plausibly be brought back.

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Going through IWPR's recent archives, I was very surprised to see the article "LiveJournal Returns in Kazakstan, But Now Facebook is King", by one Botagoz Seidakhmetova, which noted that the ban on Livejournal had been lifted in Kazakhstan in November after four years. That it had been banned at all is something I had been unaware of--Global Voices ( Read more... )

At the beginning of the week on Livejournal, first Keith R.A. Decandido then Steve Roby took part in an interesting meme. What are my Livejournal userpics, and what are their backstories?


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Back in October of 2005, Livejournaler Heather Cooze posted in the Toronto Livejournal community a complaint about the steeped tea sold by Canada-founded chain Tim Horton's. This post has since been revised, apparently in response to criticism the author received, but in the original version she said that the decision of Tim Horton's to sell tea ( Read more... )

It's that time of the year, again. How many people are still on Livejournal in any capacity, even as readers only?

Via Nicholas Whyte I found Lindsay Gates-Markel's essay at The Toast. It's a sensitive essay, about the importance of LiveJournal to her--as a person, as a writer--and one that evoked substantial amounts of nostalgia for me.

(Oh, if only the platform hadn't been left to decay! My friends page is still populated but it is no longer what it was.)

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Mathew Ingram suggests that Medium is starting to occupy the online space once occupied by Livejournal. (I really should get back to my account there and see what's what.)

When it first emerged, and for most of the time since then, Medium has been seen as primarily a place for long-form posts or articles, in part because the site has a clean and ( Read more... )