[LMB] OT: Livejournal

[Mark Allums]

Elizabeth Holden wrote:
>>> --- Mark Allums <mark at allums.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> So...Who's sticking with LiveJournal now that it's
>>>> changed hands?

> Why are people moving? I can understand moving because of deleted journals or censorship issues,
> but what difference does a change in ownership make?  Seems to me that since a lot of people were
> disaffected with the old ownership, which was increasingly interfering with content, it might be
> an improvement.  Since almsot every change to LJ since I joined has been neutral or negative, I'm
> not expecting much. But it's a thought.

Well, the real point of my question was the point about the Russians 
perhaps not having the same attitude towards preserving privacy as 
Americans, and possibly abusing their position as administrators to 
seriously data mine the collective LiveJournal journals for personal 
info.  But the point may be moot, if censorship was such a big issue. 
In order to censor, somebody has to monitor what is being written, so, 
there may not have been that much expectation of privacy to begin with. 
  But I wondered if that bothered anyone.

--Mark Allums


(A blog can be had cheap--but not free--on GoDaddy, or another hosting 
provider, it's just more work.)