It’s confirmed and official now. Especially interested in this: “Will LiveJournal stay open source? The parts that are open source now will of course remain open source…” Another interesting thing is that on the 6A site they’re calling everything LiveJournal does “weblogging” which I doubt few bloggers or LJers would, but it’s clearly a deliberate wording on their part. Glad this is out the door, interested to see where it goes. Congrats to Om for the scoop, too—the 6A press release reads a lot like his post.
LJers are definitely involved in weblogging, whether they like to call it that or not. Lemme see, frequent updates in a journaling system presented in reverse chronological format? Check, check, check.
Well mechanically, many press release pages and newspapers and “what’s new” pages share many if not all characteristics of blogging. I’m not so interested in how broadly the word can be interpreted, but more in how the respective communities describe themself.
I think most LJers would probably call what they’re doing journaling… but as Firas said… regardless of what they LJers want to call it, the information is still being presented in blog format.
YES THANK YOU, MATT. No LJer uses blogging or weblogging or whatever phrase they’re trying to implement. And you know what? Psh, I’m not changing my ways anytime soon. Yeah um- all this drama is scaring me.
Hi Jess. We’re not asking for anyone to change what they do or to call it something different. We use the word weblogging because 1) it’s the word we’ve always used and 2) it’s the word that the rest of the world is aware of as evidenced by this year’s Webster word of the year and the insane number of mentions in the mainstream press.
The whole thing is really a sematic issue. My own site is far closer to a journal than to a weblog, as greater than 75% of my posts are just about my life and thoughts. However, I also link to things on the internet, which makes it a weblog in the traditional sense of the word (if anything can be considered “traditional” about this topic).
Anyway, we have a great respect for Live Journal and their users. They aren’t second-class citizens in our family. They are fully part of it and we are excited to be able to advance the ability for people to publish, express and connect in whatever way they desire. We are also really excited to have the Danga folks working with us, because they are a really talented group who we have a lot to learn from and who can now fully focus on what they love doing without having to worry about keeping their company alive.
This is not something to be worried about, this is something to be excited about! I know that all of us at Six Apart (which now includes Danga) are.