Free Post livejournal Even George RR Martin has left Livejournal The last big user of the first platform I used has quit: Livejournal is not what it used to be.
Free Post blogs 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 Guardian is trying
Free Post blogging 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 Independent](http://www.independent.
Free Post blogging 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):
Free Post blogging 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 in the article: Aside
Free Post blog platforms 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 worth a watch, if
Free Post digital doorstepping 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.
Free Post comments 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 can be upgraded to
Free Post bloggers Digital Doorstepping: Still not getting it Robin Hamman has posted an interesting write-up of a BBC College of Journalism debate on the media coverage of the Virginia Tech shootings. And the issue of digital doorstepping that I was talking about at the time has re-emerged. Professor Joe Foote, the head
Free Post community Digital Doorstepping: New Worlds, Old Techniques There’s no doubt that the shooting of dozens of students at Virginia Tech in the US was a horrifying event. There’s equally no doubt that the few seconds of shaky mobile phone footage of the shootings was far more compelling than then
Free Post blog platforms Blogging tools become big business [](http://www.crunchbase.com/company/livejournal)Image via [CrunchBase](http://www.crunchbase.com) Well, what do you know? Blogging is proving
Free Post admin Why Am I Here? So, why the switch to Movable Type? Why move the blog to the front of this site and move away from the photoblog model I’d been developing back on the old site? What’s the point of all this? Well, it’s all
