"I don't know why, but I know I can't stay."

[greygirlbeast]

It turns out denial is insufficient to stave off The End. I'm thinking of NCSoft pulling the plug on City of Heroes and Villains, but only because someone pointed me to this article: "The Demise of a Social Media Tracking Platform: Tracking LiveJournal's Decline." It's a good article. Still, I don't want to leave. But I have been systematically

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[greygirlbeast]

The real problem remains in keeping the virtual community intact after a move (or when LJ evaporates).

This is, obviously, crucial for me. And Twitter and Facebook doesn't permit that, no matter how many followers I have. Theoretical followers. Also, I think "evaporation" is optimistic gradualism.

I'd forgotten about "Hinterlands," but his Spook Country has me hooked right now.

I love Gibson's more recent novels, but I still prefer the earlier stuff. I dislike saying that, given how much I hate my own earlier stuff, and knowing many authors fee; the same way about their own.

[greygirlbeast]

Yes, on both accounts.

Oh, but we are all to busy to stop and blog or read blogs these days!

[greygirlbeast]

Conveniently, it seems not to run on Macs.

[niamh_sage]

Thanks for this link! Off to try it now.

[from_ashes]

Once I released my book, I decided that I would only cross-post to LJ from my official website blog. I use that for anything I publically post, but the thing I love about LJ is that I can also just post things for friends. There's some personal things that I would never make public and LJ has been a way for me to get those things out there.

But as less people use it, it's becoming more of a private journal that only I read. And that's truly the sad part. I'm not going to post those things on Facebook or Twitter.

[greygirlbeast]

But as less people use it, it's becoming more of a private journal that only I read. And that's truly the sad part. I'm not going to post those things on Facebook or Twitter.

This is a sane response. I can't believe the private shit people post on FB and Twit (or on LJ's that aren't friend's only, for that matter).

[seph_ski]

Sometimes I think I like the thought that the many years worth of entries I've made could just disappear. I see it as equal parts loss and release from a burden. I've been writing "morning pages*" for many, many years, and as I fill each cheap spiral notebook, I use the wire to bind it tightly into a roll and set it aside to burn the next time we have a fire. Granted, I put more thought into blogging that I do in those pages, and I have tagged a lot of my blog entries in a way that makes them somewhat valuable resources, but at the same time I feel like everything I cling to is a commitment, a burden that a number of my brain cells and a quantity of my energy must be dedicated to, and to be released from that burden sometimes feels more like a blessing than a tragedy