RL and Six Apart

[pinkwafer]

Argh! *collapses*

Too much stress. :/ Advance warning: you probably won't see me around much over the next week (read: you shouldn't, yell at me if you do). (RL important exams don'tcha know

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[redatt]

I don't think that I'll ever stop expecting an RL tag to lead to revelations about Remus Lupin ;o)

Good luck with your exams.

Webloggs are more independent entities than are LJs. LJ is a community with a lot of interaction between users, and with individual journals connecting one to another; webloggs are more like magazines, the authors write articles about their chosen subject(s) -- readers can write in (and some blogs do have comment pages or visitors books) and get a response, but if you want to read someone's blog, you either have to visit the site, or get it on a feed (like bbc news!).

[pinkwafer]

Hehe, sorry! Here, have an RL icon at least. And thanks for the "good luck", I just hope I don't need it.

Ah, I see, that does make sense, I can see why they're differentiating between the two then. I like the magazine analogy too. :)

[heinous_bitca]

Hi! I'm here via fluffyllama's list, we're exchanging today. :)

The real difference, as I see it, between LJs and blogs is something that was defined in one of those posts somewhere about the buyout.

Blogs are outward-facing. One to many publishing, putting something out there, dangling it in the ether.

LJs are inward-facing. While you are basically doing the one to many thing, LJ is more of a community. You're posting for your friends list (likely), and they can easily respond back to you and to each other, making it a community. The threaded commenting on LJ helps that a lot, because as I'm sure you've seen, a few people can have their own conversation in your LJ.

[ah yes, it was in Brad's post on news. We have experience with making "inward-facing" community sites, whereas their sites/products tend to be "outward-facing". They want some of that inward-facing action.]

Does that make sense? I think I bungled it. *sigh*

[pinkwafer]

Darn, I missed out on the flist exchanging fun.

No, that makes perfect sense. I do post for my flist, and don't expect other people to really read/be interested, whereas webloggers are writing specifically for unkown people. I much prefer LJ!

[flimpy]

I agree with the others in that blogging is more about putting yourself 'out there', while LJing more about networking and building a sense of community.

I certainly hope you're right about Six Apart. *Wibble*

Good luck with exams! <33

[pinkwafer]

Yay for community!

Mind you, LJ was down a lot of yesterday for me, so maybe I'm wrong about 6A... *hopes not*

And thanks, hope I don't need it :)

[___horrid]

[pinkwafer]

*hugs* Thanks love, the bright colour has definitely woken me up, hopefully I won't bungle the mental maths part now! :)