Re: CHAT: Conblogging

On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 16:39:49 -0400, Jeff Rollin <jeff.rollin@...>
wrote:

> In the last episode, (On Wednesday 04 July 2007 16:41:05), Philip Newton
> wrote:
>> On 7/4/07, Jeff Rollin <jeff.rollin@...> wrote:
>> > Does anyone here use a blogging service for keeping track of what they
>> > are doing in conlanging?
>> Have you considered something like LiveJournal?
>> Cheers,
>
> Interesting. Not that Wikipedia is gospel or anything, but their page on
> it made it sound as if it was dying the death. Is that your experience?
For a long time, Livejournal had three account types, Free, Paid and Early
Adopter (essentially a Paid account for free, only available by invitation
in the early days of the site). The "Free" level has all the essentials
for blogging, and the "Paid" level adds some vanity and convenience
features.

Livejournal was purchased by blogging supergiants Six Apart, and there was
a great wailing and gnashing of teeth, as many saw this as the End Times
actively in progress.

The impact has been fairly slim. They now offer "Plus" accounts, which
have features in between Free and Paid, but which contain Google Ads (and
ads from some other services). They're also offering "Permanent" accounts
more often and obviously now, too -- a lifetime Paid account for the cost
of (generally) 5 or so years of Paid service.

The greatest outcry though, widely blamed on profit-hunger on Six Apart's
behalf, was the deletion of hundreds of individual and group blogs based
on a simple keyword search, after a complaint from a self-apointed arbiter
of morals and taste. It ended up in the deletion of blogs for and by abuse
survivors, fiction authors, medical professionals, TV show fans, and
several other perfectly innocent groups, which was eventually 95% or so
undone and a sincere apology offered.



Paul

PS: FWIW, my account is at http://darth-spacey.livejournal.com/
(Warning: Some content may be offensive to some readers)



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