>Can you fill us in a little about LiveJournal and Drivel? >It seems like a blogging service like blogger or bloglines. Is it? >If it is a web service why would one need Drivel?
While waiting for Scott to talk about Drivel... Livejournal is one of the earlier blogs, from the days before people realized what blogs were. It is easy to use and has a reputation of mainly being popular with high school girls, but does have a larger following. I use Bloglines, but only as a blog reader, because its blogwriting capabilities are rudimentary, you write articles and no one can comment on them... Blogger has more capabilities, but some folks don't want to deal with them (even if Blogger is easier than many), so many people who just want quick and simple use Livejournal. Livejournal gives you the ability to write entries and others to comment on them. See for an example, the blog for the St. Louis "community": http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=stlouis You can create a list of "friends" and with a click can see all their latest posts, and can easily see a list of people who have put you on their list. For an example, a friend of mine has an LJ (he's Brad, he likes the attention): http://www.livejournal.com/users/bradhicks/ and as with most blogs you can link to specific articles: http://www.livejournal.com/users/bradhicks/196970.html and can see friends lists and such: http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=bradhicks So Livehournal is very good for keeping track of friends and their interests, which is why it appeals to kids, and sometimes adults too. But editing it is normally on-line with all the potential slowness, so I can see why folks would want to do as much as they can using a PC-based GUI front end like Drivel. Tom _______________________________________________ CWE-LUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.cwelug.org/ http://www.cwelug.org/archives/ http://www.cwelug.org/mailinglist/
