lj was sold and is now fully, 100% dead?

Reading old LJ is 97% cringe, 3% other

But that other category can be kinda cool!

Also -- wow, new owners, huh?


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Sometimes (usually, always, literally 100% of the time?) I see emails stack up in my inbox, and one of the big reasons I hesitate to clear them is the knowledge that replying to an email simply invites another reply. So where's the progress? The slothful introverted kernel of my being whispers "if you reply you'll just have to deal with it again ( Read more... )

When advertising gets it right, it gets it right:

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Part of what made Mad Men so compelling was the idea that you can't sell things without really understanding on a visceral level how people work and what they want. I suppose that's the dark side, seeing advertising as pure manipulation: figure out the buttons to press, and then press them for fun ( Read more... )

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Eric: We've run a really tight ship... except for the part where I posted all of our plans to my livejournal.
Brad: Again?!?
Dave: I like how even though we all think Eric is an evil genius, we don't put it past him to post our secret plans to his fucking livejournal... TWICE.

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Facebook has all kinds of behind the scenes stuff going on to decide what pops up on the friends feed. Unfortunately, it doesn't seem great at differentiating between "trainwreck" clicks (because they make me frustrated or elicit schadenfreude) and "actually friends" clicks  (because I care about the person and/or am interested in the content ( Read more... )

[will take you to the mountain]

Well, so much for San Francisco! New plan: Rosslyn. Rosslyn is where we will make our stand.

What could possibly go wrong?

Holding down the Live Journal fort is solemn, lonely work. But one day everyone will come back and how clever I will be for never having left?

Yeah that's probably how it's going to turn out.

That's like, basically never true, but it is right now. Two solid weeks of more than adequate rest.

Weird.