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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,

Comments

[lucers]

i had no idea people treated us with scorn. that's very interesting

[stanleylieber]

I've encountered that attitude before. It's interesting because livejournal has so many users that a representative sample is unlikely to be found simply by surfing for one's interests. For example, I've never stumbled across some of the 'types' of livejournals cited in the article.

[moustacherides]

did you check out his flickr account?
it's fun. I've never seen so many pictures of
people staring at computers...

[moustacherides]

THE blogtalk downunder flickr account. sorry.
not HIS.

[stanleylieber]

I didn't even see that link the first time! Thanks!

[imomus]

I'm glad you're finding that O'Neil thing of use. It's very much designed as a leveling response to Clay Shirky's essay Power Laws, Weblogs and Inequality.

[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

[stanleylieber]

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

[stanleylieber]

I think the whole of the article is somewhat more impassive than the excerpt might seem. Salient observations though, all.

[stanleylieber]

Is this a thinly veiled argument for strong AI?