LiveJournal: Russia's unlikely internet giant

[ftmichael]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17177053

LiveJournal: Russia's unlikely internet giant
By Robert Greenall BBC News

Comments

[ganimede]

I think I missed the notification about LJ Media, although I was already aware that there was the plan to turn some of the larger comms like ontd into independent entities.

I don't think LJ is obscure, certainly not when you think about some of the people who have journals here and it's hard to say it's dated when it was doing the tagging and commenting aspect of social networking way before Facebook and most other web 2.0 stuff. And I think the thing Russians using the communities aspect more than other nationalities is bollocks when you think about the amount of comms that were on here before the Russians found it. And the amount of people that come to LJ for that reason.

there is life in the old goat yet
This needs to be an icon.

[ftmichael]

*nods* I agree that it's not obscure, although it does have a lot less activity than Facebook. But some of that is just the nature of Facebook, like the bloke said at the end of the article - on LJ people are writing longer and more thoughtful things, not just churning out sound bites. But agreed also that non-Russians weren't using communities feels like bollocks; the communities were very active before the Russians ever got here. Although they've only boosted it since then, and presumably they're not also posting to personal journals whereas we do more of both, I guess.

Hee, it so does need to be an icon!