Comments on: LiveJournal and SixApart, Take 2

By: Noumenon

Noumenon — Sat, 08 Jan 2005 10:07:58 +0000

to crschmidt who parenthetically introduced me to the “inurl:” search syntax: Thank you so much!

By: Shannon Ahern

Shannon Ahern — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 21:40:47 +0000

I LOVE this:
“The key to me that I have not seen in any other situation has been threaded comments, with email notifications built into the interface. The lack of threaded comments, and the lack of email notifications, is something that I believe has led to the fact that most other blogs have much less interaction than LiveJournal does: you have to remember to read a post again to see the comments someone sends to you, and that’s just not the right way to do it. Push, not Pull, is the way to improve communication.”

This is why I *hate* standard blogs. And Newsgator is just the poor man’s substitute for the genious and LOGIC presented by the LJ email notification system. I have been begging my developer fiance to write a “friends list” functionality for his DasBlog site for well over a year. I think it is utterly stupid that one has to click on each listsed reference to another cool blog. It is lame, and LJ does it SO MUCH BETTER.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 19:25:52 +0000

Okay, you win.

By: matt at lightwind

matt at lightwind — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 17:43:28 +0000

Six Apart to buy LiveJournal

There have been rumors circulating for a couple of days about a potential buyout of Danga by SixApart, MT’s parent company. Chris, who’s blog I read a bit now and again, had a couple of write-ups about it, and it’s…

By: Christopher Schmidt

Christopher Schmidt — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 15:42:20 +0000

Regarding your statement on not being able to search LiveJournals: that’s a personal choice, specified in the user options, to specify anti-spidering meta tags. For example, a search for “inurl:www.livejournal.com/users/crschmidt/” brings up 2100 hits on Google.

Regarding comment emails: it’s not that the author can’t get email, but, for example, I have no way to have email sent to you when I post this comment. I’ve not seen any other sites that do this either, including the ones you mentioned.

There is a major difference between using LJ as a blog and using it as a journal. Most weblog software can only be used as a blog: LJ *can* do both, although it’s better as a journal.

By: djchuang

djchuang — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 15:38:44 +0000

A little different perspective - I’ve found much more interaction on non-LJ blogs, like those using MT, Typepad, Blogger, and the MSM so much more often refers to blogs using these tools, than LJ. I just fond out the other day that LJ blogs aren’t even searchable via search engines, so there’s less traffic. LJ is great, like you’ve alluded to, for a circle of friends, but if one has something to say to the Internet public, some other blog tools may be more helpful. And of the 3 blog tools I’ve mentioned, I do have a email-me-when-someone-comments function.

By: M

Thu, 06 Jan 2005 04:13:38 +0000

It’ll be interesting to see how this plays out, ’cause MT/6A is for blogs, and LJ, well, it’s not really blogs. An LJ is blog-y, but the communities/comment threading and e-mails/icons/etc., not to mention the intentions of the LJers, make it much less like a real blog and more like, well, something else, a journal community, I guess. Blogs are more newsy, more about sharing information or views. LJs are more about sharing the news of your personal, day-to-day life, less about attracting readers and more about reading about your friends.

By: xoe

xoe — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 01:57:03 +0000

I’m hoping that the first scenario is the true one, simply because it would make the most sense as far as selling goes. Brad seems quite excited about LiveJournal from what I can tell & I’d have a hard time believing that he’s ready to give it up completely. One would hope that he has enough business knowledge to make an educated decision about the matter.

By: Life | Journalized » Blog Archive » Classes and more

Life | Journalized » Blog Archive » Classes and more — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 01:48:43 +0000

eers over at LiveJournal? Chris Schmidt, a volunteer at LiveJournal, hypothesizes here and here .” Sources close to LiveJournal creator Bra [...]

By: Jay V

Jay V — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 01:39:54 +0000

I used to refer to some people as bloggers and others as LJers, and I like to see someone in the field acknowleding the difference between blogging and journaling. ^_^