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andrewducker) wrote2002-01-12 11:26 am
andrewducker) wrote2002-01-12 11:26 am
Why Livejournal?
I've kept a kind of journal before. I downloaded Radio Userland because it allowed me toconstantly get up to date news headlines from any news site that I wanted(and it was fantastic for that). But it did far more than that, it was also a web server in its own right, and included the facility of publishing a weblog (either individual entires of ones based on news stories).
If you take a look at the remains you can see that the problem was that it tended to inspire notes entirely based around news stories - not a lot of use really for anything other than my thoughts about current news.
So when I moved computer and reinstalled Radio I didn't carry on with the journal. Until recently, when Joe showed me Livejournal and I felt my old writing urge come back (I used to write a lot, more on that some other time). And I decided it was well worth the $10 to for a trial run at it. And it's been so much fun I suspect I'll be here for a long time.
Anyway, Radio version 8 has just come out and it looks fantastic and does all sorts of cool stuff, and I was tossing up whether to do my journal entirely internally again, or carry on with Livejournal. And, in the end, what sold it to me was that Livejournal has a community. I've found interesting people here and they've found me, and this just in the first month. I haven't made deep friends yet, but I definitely get the feeling that I could given time.
So Livejournal stays. And I'll need a different reason to justify spending $40 on Radio.
If you take a look at the remains you can see that the problem was that it tended to inspire notes entirely based around news stories - not a lot of use really for anything other than my thoughts about current news.
So when I moved computer and reinstalled Radio I didn't carry on with the journal. Until recently, when Joe showed me Livejournal and I felt my old writing urge come back (I used to write a lot, more on that some other time). And I decided it was well worth the $10 to for a trial run at it. And it's been so much fun I suspect I'll be here for a long time.
Anyway, Radio version 8 has just come out and it looks fantastic and does all sorts of cool stuff, and I was tossing up whether to do my journal entirely internally again, or carry on with Livejournal. And, in the end, what sold it to me was that Livejournal has a community. I've found interesting people here and they've found me, and this just in the first month. I haven't made deep friends yet, but I definitely get the feeling that I could given time.
So Livejournal stays. And I'll need a different reason to justify spending $40 on Radio.