Migrants to IJ, 2007

I recommend everyone read My thoughts on the sale -- again -- of LiveJournal by Insomnia, who used to be the "all things business" manager of LiveJournal back in the day (2000-2002) and has a lot of insight regarding the recent sale of LJ to the Russian company SUP. There is more info in the comments as well, regarding LJ's data mining capabilities, etc.

Hi everyone. I just defaulted from LJ ;)

I have collected some links which may be outside stewardess' post. Some of them include commentary on LJ postings such as news on LJ.

These two cover LJ entries/commentary from Russian users.

I'd appreciate it if people could also link me to more that you've found, whether official or unofficial. Thank you!



P/s: Er, I would like to friend people from here... Part of the reason I've been using IJ less is because I am not familiar with anybody or with anything in it. :)

SA is so happy with what they have done that they are drunk on a Monday, and want to party

Nevermind the fact that they have worried and pissed off users that just want clarifications on stuff and think it's too soon to be celebrating this news.

Via stewardess: Kremlin Seeks To Extend Its Reach in Cyberspace - says that the Russian government is encouraging pro-government sites and blogs, trying to drown out opposition voices.

And when the entire country of Estonia was subjected to a Denial-Of-Service attack, well, they came from Russian IP addresses.

I'm sure there are other examples, anyone?

(ETA: fixed first link, other useful links in comments)

Or so reports Mashable, here.

Won't this just stir up the hornet's nest, eh? I think I'm going to go hide under a desk for a while.

ETA: and here's a link to LJ's News post.

I used an old RPG account on LJ, wrote a fairly smutty entry, and marked it as Adult Explicit. But the feed seems to be just fine. Maybe they'll do something to it later, but in the meantime, any minor could read any journal via rss without going through an age challenge. My example: mean_prof.

Six Apart has announced a new censorship tool in lj_biz (for once 6A has linked to a pedophile witch-hunt related development from news, instead of completely burying it in lj_biz).

Amusingly named Voluntary Adult Setting, the feature allows us to flag our own content as adult.

Rest in my insanejournal.

Shamelessly stolen from plush:



Livejournal

Working hard everyday to make it as convenient, quick, and simple as possible for every red-neck, quasi-religious, shamelessly bigoted, hopelessly hypocritical, hyper-sensitive little asshat to determine what kind of content will and will not be allowed, for the protection of it's revenue stream safety and well being of the precious, innocent children.

Because SixApart just doesn't have the manpower to censor you all, and it's easier to dupe it's users into doing it for them.

My boyfriend who hasn't paid for a Livejournal-related service in months got a random charge for $4.00 from Livejournal. I can not even THINK of anything Livejournal sells that is $4.00. The Livejournal abuse team has yet to respond back regarding this, but we're both pretty pissed off. He has no automatic payments, he hasn't even used his card for a LJ service since February (The April one was paid with my own card).

I figured I would post it here for people to check their own cards and watch out. I'll let you know what LJ has to say for themselves when they get back to me. I'm correct in saying there's nothing that would amount to $4.00 on their site, right?

( Screenshots or it didn't happen )

[edit]: Turns out they turned on automatic payments on an account he canceled and no longer uses. This should become very interesting.

To quote from <lj user="fandomtossed"> on GreatestJournal, some rather important news that has been kept on the EXTREME end of the discretion scale. Barak is no longer the CEO of 6A.

"Semi-unlinkable and definitely uncommentable announcement

Press release

Movable Type founder Mena Trott's blog entry

New CEO's statement (full of hot air & signifying nothing). Somehow I doubt he'll get fandom and LiveJournal." { Originally written by msilverstar }

I've been digging around for more on 6A/Barak "Borat the Hutt" Berkowitz and came across this gem:

http://r2.nokia.com/nmc2004/speaker_09.jsp?sid=9&ca=sbs and http://r2.nokia.com/nmc2004/pdf/berkowitz_sharing_a_mobile_life.pdf

I haven't posted it to the "news" thread on LJ yet because I imagine it'd be screened and someone there would contact that site to take the file down. But in any case, I've saved a copy of it should it happen anyway.

Slide/page 28 is particularly lolarious, and that whole presentation explains why his Vox blog is nothing BUT photos. Also, there was much cacklesnorting that they never took "CONFIDENTIAL" off of those slides.

( More Barak Bitz )

And then there's this from SixApart: http://www.sixapart.com/about/news/2007/09/were_opening_th.html

You know, it would be nice if they actually put that in LJ's news. GRRR!

Edit: They have an affiliate program?! WTF?! http://www.sixapart.com/pronet/affiliate

So, there's a new "news" post up at LJ, and -- no big shock here -- a brief mention of a new CEO but NO mention of the Omniture/data mining thing. Go figure! And while the elusive foot-swallowing Pepsi-crested burr86 hasn't yet been spotted, they've been screening some comments... yet again! Oh, and there's a hefty helping of pimping Knocked Up, yes, yet again! I guess lj_biz is the new news, and news is now ads.

Posts to "news" there aren't news anymore, they're just nice reminders why InsaneJournal is so much better. ;D

Edit: Burr is page 1, I fail at reading!