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I will probably be out of touch writing-wise for a day or so, until I get connected in San Antonio Somehow. I'll try to send audio posts if someone will transcribe them!

http://wsriley.com/labs/ljpic/pic.php
If you insert your LJ handle into this form, it will generate a map of North America with all your LJ friends, using their pics.

Thanks to cellio for pointing it out.

Several of you said that you felt online journals/blogs facilitated communities rather than forming them. (I hope I'm paraphrasing this correctly.) Several of you mentioned that you make friendship/reading decisions based on knowing the person in "meatspace" (as it were ( Read more... )

In my previous post, I asked some general questions about why people write in blogs, etc. The discussion there, on communities, is interesting ( Read more... )

Some of my custom groups of friends weren't working the way I thought; I went in and (I think) fixed it, so over the past two weeks or so (if you care) some entries you may not have seen will pop up. Or not.

I'm really pissed at the "Friends" page. When I click on the menu, I get goldenstag's entry from 6 Feb, at 2:06 pm. Not that I don't like him, or that post, or anything, but to get to the most recent stuff, I have to use this URL: http://patsmor.livejournal.com/friends?skip=0Anyone ( Read more... )

For some reason, the source of which I haven't exactly figured out, I was grumpy and unpleasant and whiny yesterday on line here and in email. I apologize, and, like always, wish I could take back every word. :-(

• That they'd get the darn email notice thing fixed.
• That when Semagic says "you have new entries from your friends" it would take me to where the new entries are. I hate going back 3-4 days looking at the number of responses and trying to figure out what's happening.

Especially when it's one of those fascinating and fun tangential riffs ( Read more... )

I found a RSS feed from the museum; once a day they put up a cool item/picture/whatever with a good description of it.

Click here to have it show up in your "friends" site once a day.

http://www.livejournal.com/friends/add.bml?user=rijksfeed