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[stanleylieber]

'It could be argued that LiveJournal represents a semi-private sphere, a safe space of enclosure which came about as a means of resisting a male-dominated social environment: the open issue-blog link economy, based on point-scoring and demolishing an opponent’s opinion, in the name of learned authority. Within the semi-private LiveJournal sphere,

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[stanleylieber]

Yes, and both are enriching reading (I of course followed the link to the latter article from your journal, last week). Thank you for bringing them to wider attention.

Interestingly, I'd never considered the gender distribution on livejournal (and I've been here since 1999, under various handles). In the very earliest days, most of the users I encountered here were employed in technical fields (usually Bay Area network drones, but perhaps that was just my narrow orientation, at the time). Now that I examine my own friends list, it seems clear there are an awful lot more females here than there are posting on, say, comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc.

Livejournal (again, in my narrow sampling of journals) also seems to yield a more even blend of visuals and text than other blogging sites I'm familiar with. To the extent that livejournals become more of a continous stream of comic book-like narrative, as opposed to other formats where the two elements seem more strictly delineated.

I do think O'Neil hits the nail on the head when he points out that the interaction on livejournal seems to be as or more important that individual slices of content.

As always Momus, you prove to be a fountain of jumping off points.

[stanleylieber]

Perhaps future revisions to the article(s) might include mention of cross-blog interactions, such as the interplay between flickr, livejournal, etc.

[stanleylieber]

Ah yes, but I have an encrypted irc channel, BBS and Tribe account (actually, I am/was on Friendster, but haven't logged in there in a really long time). I can't wait until the chips in my head are crashing because I have too many tabs open.

[robotar]

It's interesting: when I began this new journal I intended it to be photo-oriented. Now that I've joined onto Flickr I seem to be shifting towards that as my main method of communication. You seem to have the two rather well integrated, however!

[stanleylieber]

It's become a little strange for me, as I tend to use livejournal the same way I used to use my zines. Evidently, I think in comic books.