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Rambling about EBooks
Inspired by this post by theferrett. (I mentioned him in a comment, so I had to go check out what he's been saying recently ( Read more... ) -
LJ activity continues to drop
From the Statistics page today (12/22/07)
* Total accounts: 14500541
* ... active in some way: 1718931
* ... that have ever updated: 8869876
* ... updating in last 30 days: 958074
* ... updating in last 7 days: 543214
* ... updating in past 24 hours: 148189
To check back over the last couple of years, there's ( Read more... ) -
HAPPY SOLSTICE! Have some meta to wake up from the longest night!
Reply to http://community.livejournal.com/otw_news/16030.html in regards to the first line of the anti-fanfic bingo card available here.
These five are in two overlapping categories: crime and literary ethics.
( You'd think it was murder or child abuse, the way they carry on, not obscure points of tort law ) -
Some arguments against fanfic
The Organization for Transformative Works was recently mentioned in several blogs; http://community.livejournal.com/otw_news/15044.html has links ( Read more... ) -
Support requests security change
Request #826044
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Fannish news - Change in YouTube TOS
http://community.livejournal.com/fandom_lawyers/55864.html
"As part of their new 'Community Guidelines'... they have just edited their Terms of Use about what is not on the allowed uploading material, which includes (but is not limited to) this little paragraph ( Read more... ) -
For my Jewish friends...
Christmas, as we all know, has become a secular holiday. Like any other secular public event, there are standard practices and rituals of participation.
And here they are, all neatly listed on a Geocities page for your easy viewing:
Hilchos Xmas
ETA excerpt:
3. DECORATING THE TREE
1. AS WITH ALL MITZVOS, THE TREE SHOULD BE TASTEFULLY19 DECORATED ( Read more... ) -
Still waiting on reply
On Dec 1st (before the SUP buyout announcement, I think), I opened a support request about the flagging feature:
( What is 'offensive content'? ) -
About those blocked interest searches
I made a post at ljspeaks. It's long. With lists.
Banned Interest Terms. Note that these aren't exactly "banned;" they just don't work when you try to search them ( Read more... ) -
Hi, new frendzez!
So. I made this post about search terms blocked at LJ. (Found out they've been blocked since just after Strikethrough 1.0)
It's a popular post. Much-linked. Plus, I have a whole swarm of new friends at LiveJournal. *blink*
Then... TheLJStaff posted updates. Two of them. One in LJ_2008; one in LJ_policy.
Updates on the LJ Advisory Board.
Updates ( Read more... )