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LiveJournal has been here for ten years and some of its users nearly that long. What LJ does well has never been duplicated -- it's community driven, it's content driven. It's users are content producers. LJ is unique in social networking sites in that it has become a valuable repository for people's memories -- it truly has taken the place of a paper journal and many people have forsaken their handwritten diaries for an LJ which has many additional benefits but one serious drawback -- the threat of impermanence. While many people probably wouldn't consider trying to archive their Facebook status updates, many of us look to our LiveJournal's as an official personal history -- a document that needs to be preserved for future reference and grows in value each day.
-- Kyle Cassidy
This is taken from Mr. Cassidy's nomination proposal in his bid to win election to LJ's Advisory Board. I finally read through the proposals and was rather won over by this sentiment. I was also reading through the candidates' personal journals, and I gather some people feel that Cassidy is practically a lock for the election, since he is a collaborator and pal of Neil Gaiman, and Gaiman has thrown his weight behind him. Maybe. The only thing I'm concerned about is whether Cassidy may be too pure of heart and may throw his weight behind efforts to push out the more pornish aspects of LJ, especially the dark and fetishistic stuff, as if the puritanism weren't bad enough. Ah, my lovely Blossom!
-- Kyle Cassidy
This is taken from Mr. Cassidy's nomination proposal in his bid to win election to LJ's Advisory Board. I finally read through the proposals and was rather won over by this sentiment. I was also reading through the candidates' personal journals, and I gather some people feel that Cassidy is practically a lock for the election, since he is a collaborator and pal of Neil Gaiman, and Gaiman has thrown his weight behind him. Maybe. The only thing I'm concerned about is whether Cassidy may be too pure of heart and may throw his weight behind efforts to push out the more pornish aspects of LJ, especially the dark and fetishistic stuff, as if the puritanism weren't bad enough. Ah, my lovely Blossom!
