Alien-Human Hybrid

Well. I've decided to pack up shop and move to Livejournal. Please feel free to join me there; I hope that you will. The problem (and for anyone who does not have a Livejournal, the annoyance) is that I often friends-lock my entries, not because they're intensely personal but because I feel better keeping some of my posts visible only to the people I know or want to know. If you are interested, sign up for a Livejournal account -- it's free -- and request to be my friend (God only knows why you'd want to!). Then, you can read my friends-locked posts, even though I do not promise they will be entertaining or worth reading.

I know this is a lot of trouble but I enjoy posting on Livejournal much better than posting here. And it's getting difficult to maintain two blogs, so I'm going to try to blend the two and create a kind of potpourri blog. A little of everything.

Here is my new home, which is still Alien-Human Hybrid: http://jorvik.livejournal.com/

(Livejournal's address is http://www.livejournal.com/.)

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Posted by Sara at 11:48 AM | Permalink | Comments

Some great (in my opinion) Livejournal communities:

• SistersBronte is delightful if you're into the Bronte sisters. And, c'mon. Who isn't? By the way, I'm convinced that someone's favorite Bronte says a considerable lot about him or her.
• Academic_Anon is for (sometimes "recovering") academics.
• HipsterBookClub is useful for finding new reads or revisiting old ones.
• StoryBookLand is a community for those interested in the art of children's literature.
• I like old photographs, so VintagePhoto is a blast.
• For your muppet fix, here is muppets, a community devoted to muppet thoughts. There's also muppet_icons, which is barrels of fun.
• And here's a community of people who are fighting for a second X-Files movie. Death by Excitement, anyone?
• There are also some creepy communities, ones that advocate alcoholism, eating disorders, strange fetishes, etc. But I'm not going to link those because I don't believe they deserve the attention.

And now, back to persistently avoiding my final Literary Studies paper.

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Posted by Sara at 12:12 PM | Permalink | Comments

I think Livejournal is different from "other" blogging sites, perhaps Livejournals aren't even blogs in the traditional sense (if there is a traditional sense). I think Suzan, who insulted our professor, said this well: Many of the entries in LJ may refer to events or discussions that happen in another venue, be it instant messenger, telephone, or face to face, and there is much recursive, esoteric, and self-referential conversation that takes place on LJ that simply doesn't occur in a one to many blog paradigm.

Livejournal hastens the process that Colin often diagrams in class: the one where X number of knitters are blogging and communicating with one another, and X number of Lamont supporters are blogging and communicating, and then some knitters crossover to the Lamont blogs because they're also Lamont supporters and vice versa. So there's this ever growing, ever changing blog community. Livejournal makes that process easier. You can set up a Livejournal, search for common interests and join communities based on shared interests. Then, through commenting in a community or clicking on a blogger's user info, you can decide to "friend" a blogger, allowing both of you to be on one another's friends list, which gives each of you permission to view each other's friends-locked entries. The cool thing is you always have control over who can view your entries. And you can even create your own community and decide who can and cannot join your community by becoming a maintainer of a community.

I've mentioned this before, but Livejournal is its own species, sort of.

I'll probably return soon with a list of some cool things I think are happening at LJ, but for now, it's me and my tissue box. We are one these days.

For the record, I disagree with this:
Colin said...
Well, I'm a very bad professor. There's no getting around that.
4:49 AM

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Posted by Sara at 9:07 PM | Permalink | Comments