Ten years ago, I started this journal as a dumping ground for my reading notes. It evolved from there: I'm no longer in school, have gone through cycles of deluge and drought where writing is concerned, and now I use this LJ account primarily as a private journal ( Read more... )

If you can only read one post today, go read this one.

As you may have noticed on news, voting for LiveJournal's User-Representative Election has begun. Check out the candidates' platforms here.

Me? I'm casting my first category vote for legomymalfoy. On a personal level, because I've "known" her from various online circles for a few years now, and she's definitely a person of integrity ( Read more... )

Madness #1:
Following up on my post yesterday, here is something new on the LJ-front -- LJ is now censoring user interests.

This is something that I can't claim to not affect me, because while my own listed interests weren't censored, the entire move belies the "culture of openness and collaboration" that SUP was just talking about in its latest ( Read more... )

Apparently, LJ has gotten rid of the option to create future Basic (no-pay, ad-free) Accounts. If you haven't heard yet, it's because this was-and in a way, still is-never announced. A small reference was made in this LJ news post that The Powers That Be have "streamlined" the registration process. Elsewhere, this was explained as "simplifying" the ( Read more... )

Happy 3 year LJ anniversary to me!

Can't believe it's been three years already. I definitely don't post as much as I used to, but I'm still reading other people's journals a lot, and I've spent more face-to-face time in RL with some of you than last year. It's cool, to think back on how I ventured into NYC only knowing two people (my housemates), ( Read more... )

There's still one more hour left for this:

LJ is offering $30 gift certificates for DonorsChoose.org. There's a post about how to make a request on the most recent lj_biz post here. It's simple, all you need to do is request a gift certificate by sending LJ an email at donorschoose@sixapart.com. (ETA: No need to say anything fancy either. Just a simple ( Read more... )

Just a heads up in case you missed it: LiveJournal started using Omniture to track 5% of its journals. Now, I'm somewhat familiar with Omniture. When I used to work at my Internet job, we used Omniture to track sales and site visitation stats. It's a good way for Web-based businesses to learn about their traffic. But in case you don't want to have ( Read more... )

In 2005, when SixApart first bought LiveJournal from Danga Interactive (or, as LJers usually put it, from Brad), they made several promises, and one of them was that we won't see ads, ever. See this post when 6A first acquired LiveJournal. Scroll down to one of its FAQs and you'll see (emphasis mine):Q: Are you going to put ads on our journals?A: ( Read more... )

I'd like to point everyone to the latest news post.

It's the latest installment in a series of post made to address the recent LJ account purge karfunkel. In case you have no idea why Six Apart (which bought LJ in 2005) CEO barakb25 has been posting so much in LJ's news community lately, here's a Firefox news article about the whole incident. [Disclaimer on ( Read more... )