livejournal
22 years of blogging
It’s another anniversary…
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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.
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 [http://publisherblog.automattic.com/2010/06/08/the-independent-switches-to-wordpress/] . Makes sense. LJ always seemed like an odd fit. * The Guardian
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.co.uk/ "The Independent"
Blogging
Blogs Becoming Social Networks, Says Six Apart (Europe)
Paid Content’s interview with Olivier Creiche of Six Apart [http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/419-video-interview-olivier-creiche-vp-six-apart-selling-to-sup-and-the-end/] . Some interesting thoughts on the usage and evolution of Movable Type (and why they flogged Livejournal to the Russians):
Blogging
Six Apart and Livejournal Part Ways
Six Apart has flogged Livejournal [http://news.livejournal.com/104520.html], 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. [http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/dec2007/tc2007123_052837.htm] There’
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Six Apart on Future Blogging
I’m not a huge fan of Robert Scoble [http://scobleizer.com/2007/10/12/the-future-of-moveable-type-vox-typepad-and-live-journal/] ‘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,
digital doorstepping
Digital Doorstepping by the Guy Doorstepped
Robin Hamman finds an interesting follow-up from one of the Virginia Tech Shootings witnesses [http://www.cybersoc.com/2007/07/virginia-tech-b.html] that he originally contacted. Well worth a read.
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 poster rights later, if you should
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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 [http://www.cybersoc.com/2007/05/debate_on_virgi.html]. And the issue of digital doorstepping that I was talking about at the time has re-emerged. Professor
community
Digital Doorstepping: New Worlds, Old Techniques
There’s no doubt that the shooting of dozens of students at Virginia Tech [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/6560685.stm] 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
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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 to be like any other business.