Comments on: On LiveJournal and subcultures

By: zephoria

zephoria — Thu, 13 Jan 2005 10:19:44 +0000

Pro-Anorexia. But it’s a particular culture so it doesn’t simply mean that.

By: coturnix

coturnix — Thu, 13 Jan 2005 05:55:05 +0000

for us techno-morons: what does “pro-Ana” mean?

By: scott

scott — Wed, 12 Jan 2005 09:23:29 +0000

nice piece, d. i like.

By: Kelvin

Kelvin — Mon, 10 Jan 2005 10:40:51 +0000

I liked the article a lot. Although I felt that some people were being somewhat unfair to Brad for assuming he can be their online Atlas and hold up their entire world, your Salon piece was dignified and actually made a point.

My response to those naysayers (on my own blog) might see a bit hard on your piece, but I didn’t really mean it that way.

And I’m sure you can’t think that 6A is evil if you use their product.

By: Day

Day — Sun, 09 Jan 2005 21:45:29 +0000

Interesting thoughts about LJers and blogging. New to this “social tool” I am amazed that someone is studying people and how they “label” the things we write and people are boxed-up into certain cultures that some people think they belong to–a bit scary.

By: Seb

Seb — Sun, 09 Jan 2005 04:32:07 +0000

There is discussion by LJers at http://www.livejournal.com/community/blog_sociology/127370.html?style=mine

By: coturnix

coturnix — Sat, 08 Jan 2005 21:16:31 +0000

By: joe

joe — Sat, 08 Jan 2005 12:40:29 +0000

I still would like to see what solid business motives SixApart has for this move… is it just “business strength” as Ms. Trott says? If they don’t intend to change LJ, how do they plan on making money off of it?

By: Spook

Spook — Sat, 08 Jan 2005 11:03:58 +0000

Pretty good article but I couldnt fill everything I wanted to say here. So I put it up on my site. Please read and let me know what you think about it.

By: Frances

Frances — Sat, 08 Jan 2005 10:44:01 +0000

I liked the article.

I had some problems with your initial posts, but through this article I understand your concerns better.
It was mostly because of the fact that I use LJ on a completely different basis than the one you describe that I thought you were a bit harsh.

You can find a longer string of thoughts about how and why I use LJ in my latest post.