The Advisory Board met last month, resulting in decisions about some open issues in the Abuse Policy. The conclusions are posted here. I am happy with the decisions and I hope you will be too ( Read more... )

Congratulations to legomymalfoy for winning the Advisory Board Election ( Read more... )

LiveJournal's Advisory Board helps advise LJ about policies, business, user practices, and product development. Currently, the Board consists of: me, Esther Dyson, Brad Fitzpatrick, and Lawrence Lessig. LJ has decided that users should also sit on the Advisory Board (recognizing that Brad and I are both also active users). So, LJ is having an ( Read more... )

Things have clearly been crazy while I was gone. I'm in the middle of catching up, but I wanted to respond to some of the issues at play, to the best that I can ( Read more... )

Just a heads up for those waiting on a response from me - I'm reading everything you're saying in the comments of previous posts and I will be meeting with some folks at LJ when I return from "Eastover" (what happens when Passover gets celebrated during Eastover because that's when folks have time off). I will have limited email/internet access ( Read more... )

::groan::

While offline this week, I learned that LJ has changed its account levels. Needless to say, Brad's pissed. I'm pissed. Not only because we both vehemently disagree with this change, but because they made such a change without consulting us. Or rather, we were both at a lunch a while back where they asked us what we thought and we ( Read more... )

Last night, the folks at LJ posted a draft set of policy guidelines for the public (and us advisory board folks) to review and comment on. It's not a final policy because LJ doesn't want to make this kind of change without community feedback and consideration. They are letting the public know at the same time as the advisory board knows. I'm ( Read more... )

I have exciting news. I've decided to join the advisory board of LiveJournal. It's been brewing for a while, but it became official today ( Read more... )

::wave:: Thanks to the folks at LJ, I was able to snag this name back from my poor decision years ago to call my blog's syndicated feed danahboyd. The reason that I'm starting a new public LJ is because I have some fantastico news: I've joined the advisory board of LJ. w00t ( Read more... )