LJ

[perlmonger]

I don't (yet) know if the rumour that Brad is going to sell LJ to Six Apart has any truth behind it, but all I can say to danah boyd's posting on the issue is Word.

If it does happen, I suspect that LJ will end up a shell; an expanding enhanced-sharedholder-value shell perhaps (at least for a while), but ultimately a dead thing.

We'll see.

Comments

[sneerpout.livejournal.com]

I will be devastated if LJ ends in its current form. I have no interest in running a bogstandard regular blog that I have no way of moderating access to.

Writing for an audience on a platform accessible to all is something I've been doing all my adult life. It's called journalism and I don't do it for free. My journal is my own space where I can write about anything that pleases me or, more commonly, does not, and I do it for myself and the people I respect, like and trust.

*sigh*

[ramtops.livejournal.com]

it's the community aspect of LJ that I'd miss - I've met some really good people here ...

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Yes. Exactly so.

(Though I am clearly not of the fourth estate)

I've attempted webloggage once or twice as an experiment and it just feels entirely wrong. I've also met (and indeed have been priveliged to see the inner life of those I knew from Whitby/Slime/Usenet) far too many fine people to just walk away from this thing.

I feel more discomfited by this news than I would have expected.