Mutating LiveJournal

LiveJournal's leadership has made it clear that their future American business strategy lies in generating new traffic rather than catering to the service's current small-but-loyal membership.

-- News/ LJ

I can understand Brad's move to cash in on his ingenuity and efforts, but I wonder if he feels any pangs of regret over selling us out. Well, it's not like I have much of an e-life anyway, and so long as they can keep things running, I suppose it may not matter that much to me.

True, there is this sense that maybe it is time to put away childish things, but it's not like I have any good real-life options, and it still somehow feels a little meaningful to 'publish' my nonsense to the indifferent world at large, though a little more of the thrill wears off every year.

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Mutating LiveJournal

LiveJournal's leadership has made it clear that their future American business strategy lies in generating new traffic rather than catering to the service's current small-but-loyal membership.

-- News/ LJ

I can understand Brad's move to cash in on his ingenuity and efforts, but I wonder if he feels any pangs of regret over selling us out. Well, it's not like I have much of an e-life anyway, and so long as they can keep things running, I suppose it may not matter that much to me.

True, there is this sense that maybe it is time to put away childish things, but it's not like I have any good real-life options, and it still somehow feels a little meaningful to 'publish' my nonsense to the indifferent world at large, though a little more of the thrill wears off every year.

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Charles Dickens

I said I have one more article on Charles Dickens in the hopper. Let's take advantage of this slow Saturday afternoon to get that out of the way. Here is much of it anyway. It tees off from a BBC TV-adaptation of "Great Expectations" but goes on to a richer discussion.

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Charles Dickens

I said I have one more article on Charles Dickens in the hopper. Let's take advantage of this slow Saturday afternoon to get that out of the way. Here is much of it anyway. It tees off from a BBC TV-adaptation of "Great Expectations" but goes on to a richer discussion.

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Mr. Saturday Night

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Mr. Saturday Night

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