: Wednesday, April 21, 2009
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savageseraph: Not Nirvana, Not Really... - Color me a skeptic, but I really never thought Dreamwidth was going to be the new Nirvana. I've been around too long and seen too many incarnations of the search for the Promised Land of Blogdom to drink the dreamy Kool-Aid. My suspicions were somewhat confirmed today in the update post that was sent to Dreamwidth users -- amothea: Some thinky thoughts on DW - yesterday I ran across a story that's supposed to be 100,000k plus words but the author is posting it over the next few weeks and I think at the end it's going to be 14 chapters[...]//I ended up writing to ask why is she posting the story in such small chapters at DW since technically the limit should be around 50k words...I found out she's cross posting to LJ and well as everyone knows LJ has a 10k word limit -
- hlbr: fanfic as comunal creation - People do mind more OC with MS characteristics than canon characters made horribly out of character (OOC) and with MS characteristics.//So I began to think... why? Why would that be? What is it about a character disguised as a canon character that makes it more endurable than the same character with a new, original name? -
- gerisullivan: My thoughts on Dreamwidth - Our options will expand and contract; it's the way of the world, and it's especially the way of a product life cycle in a rapidly-changing environment. My only expectation at this point is that we'll continue to use electronic means to communicate. The internet and the world wide web will continue to evolve. If and when they stop, they'll be replaced or overthrown by the next hot thing. -
- afterthree: Why Dreamwidth? - For me, Dreamwidth is all about their ad-free business model. //Not because I mind ads, necessarily, though I know a lot of people are uncomfortable with a service that makes money of their content. It's because making money off ads on a social media site doesn't work and is increasingly proving to be an unviable business plan. -
- thefourthvine: Why Aren't People Commenting on My Post/Story/Whatever? - Sometimes you may say to yourself: all these people have me friended. And yet I posted a story (or a link, or four extremely compelling pictures of my cat, including one where she almost had a ribbon on her head) and many of them have not commented! You may wonder why. You may even be downcast in your wonderment and confusion.//Well, wonder no longer! I have been doing some careful research on this very topic, and I have all the answers. -
- dybji: Pull up a Chair, Do - And that's precisely why the GTFO reflex is forgivable: if it were about intellectual or aesthetic enjoyment of art, it's much easier to be mature. It's much easier to say, "No, sir. With all due respect, you are wrong." Or, "No, ma'am. With all due respect, I completely disagree with that interpretation."[...]This is the realm of the heart overlapping with aesthetics and it is dangerous ground. The damage can be irrevocable: just one person says, just contemptuously enough, Well, that's just absurd. And Lewis Carroll was a pedophile, you knowâ, and suddenly you're standing there with that strange ineffable feeling you got on reading Alice in Wonderland gone forever and while the appreciation may remain the instinctive impressions are gone forever. -