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Alternatives to LJ...
Mar. 23rd, 2008 03:26 pmIronically, given that LJ has become my blogging platform of choice, I've been trying to seek out some vague alternative. Not because of all the reasons given for the recent so-called strike, but because:
1. It has the feel of antiquated technology
2. You have to be in it to feel the benefits of it. Which nobody has the time to do these days!
3. It's exceedingly newbie-unfriendly
4. I'm not exactly confident that if LJ goes belly-up, exporting your data would be an easy process
and yet... once you're in it, it just somehow works. It's a platform that encourages commenting very easily. It's relatively easy to catch up on posts. I'm reasonably confident that posts I mark friends-only or filter-only won't be picked up by Google. Which keeps me here.
But then I've just found a new service, which seems to have much of the same LJ functionality, at least in terms of filtered posts. I've only just registered so must play around with it sometime, but it'd be good to have a bolthole just in case things really start happening.
So if you feel the need to have a bolthole and just experiment, take a look at http://almostwitty.multiply.com/journal - it's already let me import my LJ posts. I'm also keeping an eye on the![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
elsejournal community.
and now, back to complaining about the lack of snow where I am!
1. It has the feel of antiquated technology
2. You have to be in it to feel the benefits of it. Which nobody has the time to do these days!
3. It's exceedingly newbie-unfriendly
4. I'm not exactly confident that if LJ goes belly-up, exporting your data would be an easy process
and yet... once you're in it, it just somehow works. It's a platform that encourages commenting very easily. It's relatively easy to catch up on posts. I'm reasonably confident that posts I mark friends-only or filter-only won't be picked up by Google. Which keeps me here.
But then I've just found a new service, which seems to have much of the same LJ functionality, at least in terms of filtered posts. I've only just registered so must play around with it sometime, but it'd be good to have a bolthole just in case things really start happening.
So if you feel the need to have a bolthole and just experiment, take a look at http://almostwitty.multiply.com/journal - it's already let me import my LJ posts. I'm also keeping an eye on the
elsejournal community.and now, back to complaining about the lack of snow where I am!
