The last big user of the first platform I used has quit: Livejournal is not what it used to be.
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A collection of 12 posts
Afternoon Tea Reading: National Newspapers
Some links about our friends in the nationals that have been hanging around in my Chrome tabs for too long now: The Independent has switched its blogs from Livejournal to WordPress. Makes sense. LJ always seemed like an odd fit.…
The Independent partners with Livejournal
[](https://i2.wp.com/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Livejournal-logo.png)Image via [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Livejournal-logo.png) *[The…
Blogs Becoming Social Networks, Says Six Apart (Europe)
Paid Content’s interview with Olivier Creiche of Six Apart. Some interesting thoughts on the usage and evolution of Movable Type (and why they flogged Livejournal to the Russians):…
Six Apart and Livejournal Part Ways
Six Apart has flogged Livejournal, home of my very first blog, to a Russian media outfit that rejoices in the name Sup. Business Week has a good analysis of what this might mean. There’s a couple of good points…
Six Apart on Future Blogging
I’m not a huge fan of Robert Scoble‘s very static video interview style (I don’t think he really takes advantage of the visual nature of the medium), but this interview with some folks from Six Apart is…
Digital Doorstepping by the Guy Doorstepped
Robin Hamman finds an interesting follow-up from one of the Virginia Tech Shootings witnesses that he originally contacted. Well worth a read.…
MT4 Thoughts: Commenting
First thing that I’ve discovered in Movable Type 4 that makes me really, really happy: comment registration. You can actually sign up to be a registered commenter on any MT blog natively under version 4 – and those user accounts…