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oyceterNY Times article on blogging and how it affects your personal circle.
I find this interesting because everyone I knew of who had a blog has by now moved on to LJ. I wonder if everyone's going to be on LJ two years from now after the fandom community has gone into something else entirely. I also find it interesting that lots of people are just now figuring out the etiquette of online behavior and etc. One reason I adore LJ is the custom filters. The boy said he doesn't quite get why people would want to put intimate details of their lives online for strangers to read at all. I guess it's a kind of strange habit unless one is used to the idea of meeting people and learning about them online, as opposed to IRL. Wouldn't it be interesting if fandom were the pioneer of the "new internet culture" or whatever, when the large majority of the people start figuring out what can be done with the internet?
So the article had me wondering on things like: how do I draw the line between my LJ-life and RL? I mean, is a public journal/blog an oxymoron? I know I definitely write about many more things in my LJ than I did/do in my text journal, because the text journal is mainly there for things I desperately need to get out of my system and don't have anyone to tell it to. And I've found as I grow older and find more people to trust, I write in my journal less and less because there are fewer and fewer things that I can't say to anyone. And now, with LJ, all the things that I usually don't tell my RL friends for fear of being thought of as crazy (i.e. Buffy, television, some political ranting, randomn thoughts on food and books) go here too. I guess what I find especially interesting is the clash of public and private in LJ -- sometimes I write stuff that I feel will get me comments, and sometimes I just rant about my lousy day or the cool book I just read. And sometimes I spam the friends list with useless memes, eh heh.
Another article on chain stores and pop culture.
*sigh* This is when I go into kneejerk reaction mode and start throwing tantrums about the destructiveness of large corporations that are trying to take over my world goddamnit! But the boy made a good point -- this means there's a huge niche for independent bookstores and music stores and etc. that will hopefully get MORE business because of this! Now I really want to work at a cool independent bookstore so I can get enough experience to start my own. My own independent sci-fi/fantasy bookstore... mmm... where I get to disseminate good, non-Robert Jordan/Mercedes Lackey fantasy (and hire someone who knows a lot more about good sci-fi than I do)...
Er. Anyway. Yeah.
I find this interesting because everyone I knew of who had a blog has by now moved on to LJ. I wonder if everyone's going to be on LJ two years from now after the fandom community has gone into something else entirely. I also find it interesting that lots of people are just now figuring out the etiquette of online behavior and etc. One reason I adore LJ is the custom filters. The boy said he doesn't quite get why people would want to put intimate details of their lives online for strangers to read at all. I guess it's a kind of strange habit unless one is used to the idea of meeting people and learning about them online, as opposed to IRL. Wouldn't it be interesting if fandom were the pioneer of the "new internet culture" or whatever, when the large majority of the people start figuring out what can be done with the internet?
So the article had me wondering on things like: how do I draw the line between my LJ-life and RL? I mean, is a public journal/blog an oxymoron? I know I definitely write about many more things in my LJ than I did/do in my text journal, because the text journal is mainly there for things I desperately need to get out of my system and don't have anyone to tell it to. And I've found as I grow older and find more people to trust, I write in my journal less and less because there are fewer and fewer things that I can't say to anyone. And now, with LJ, all the things that I usually don't tell my RL friends for fear of being thought of as crazy (i.e. Buffy, television, some political ranting, randomn thoughts on food and books) go here too. I guess what I find especially interesting is the clash of public and private in LJ -- sometimes I write stuff that I feel will get me comments, and sometimes I just rant about my lousy day or the cool book I just read. And sometimes I spam the friends list with useless memes, eh heh.
Another article on chain stores and pop culture.
*sigh* This is when I go into kneejerk reaction mode and start throwing tantrums about the destructiveness of large corporations that are trying to take over my world goddamnit! But the boy made a good point -- this means there's a huge niche for independent bookstores and music stores and etc. that will hopefully get MORE business because of this! Now I really want to work at a cool independent bookstore so I can get enough experience to start my own. My own independent sci-fi/fantasy bookstore... mmm... where I get to disseminate good, non-Robert Jordan/Mercedes Lackey fantasy (and hire someone who knows a lot more about good sci-fi than I do)...
Er. Anyway. Yeah.
Re: The internet is weird, man.
Sun, May. 18th, 2003 11:48 pm (UTC)Oops! Yeah, it's free registration, but you still have to give out your email and stuff. I did it a while ago because 1) reading on the web is free and 2) seemed like a good, reputable place to get my daily news fix. Or weekly, depending on how my schedule is.
I adore LJ's community, which is probably why I ended up getting LJ instead of a blog. I originally started it as a private journal, but comments are addicting! That and I like having a soapbox some people read ^_~. And the people here are great.