Beteena,
I've read a fair number of LJ posts. I still think both LJ and other
blog formats work like this:
One person (or a group of people who have assembled for the long term
specifically to post the blog entries) posts on a regular and/or
frequent basis. The post is like a short magazine article or essay.
Then, other people comment on the post. Many of the comments are on the
"Great work!" or "I agree!" lines. Some are substantive, but even so,
not usually more than a paragraph or two long.
I would argue that this is a different format from a discussion group
like h-costume, where anyone can broach any subject at any time, and it
is easy for multiple people to engage in each discussion. If in a blog
format, one person is responding to another's blog on his/her own blog,
and then people have to respond to that post, it's just a lot harder for
this to be a general discussion where everyone can tell what is going on.
That does not mean I am "attacking" LiveJournal. I'm saying that a blog
format, where one person provides most of the content and others respond
to it, is different from a more general discussion group. I am also
not against hanging out in a community for the sake of doing so. It's
just that I personally am not interested in doing that.
Fran
Lavolta Press
www.lavoltapress.com
On 8/6/2011 2:09 PM, Beteena Paradise wrote:
The live journal community is VERY strong. It isn't a group reading a
journalistic type of blog. It is all of us reading each others personal blogs
and interacting as a community. These days LJ has been under a lot of attack so
some people are moving to dream(something that I can't remember the name off the
top of my head) or blogspot. But they are still keeping their LJ journals open
as the format of it is more conducive to community.
Teena
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From: Lavolta Press<f...@lavoltapress.com>
To: Historical Costume<h-cost...@indra.com>
Sent: Sat, August 6, 2011 9:31:19 PM
Subject: Re: [h-cost] Where is everyone hanging out these days?
Of course, blogs have been around for a long time. But, I typically see them
used more as form of journalism (one person posts regularly/provides most of
the content, a few others briefly comment) rather than discussion.
I'm really more interested in substantive information than "chat" or "belonging
to a community."
Fran
Lavolta Press
www.lavoltapress.com
www.facebook.com/LavoltaPress
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