Thursday, January 06, 2005

The Sale of LiveJournal to Six Apart

In case you missed the news of its sale, LiveJournal has been sold to Six Apart (who are the company responsible for Movable Type - their weblogging product - and TypePad - their service).

There's much in Brad's post about how nothing is going to change, but then we've all heard that before with the sale (and subsequent resales) of CiX. CiX is now a system I hardly ever use as it's now a shadow of its former self.

I really hope LiveJournal doesn't wither and die on the vine in the same way. Yesterday I set up my own Blogger Blog with spooky foresight: I just hope I don't have to rely on it instead.

For me, the benefit of LiveJournal is that it's not about publishing my thoughts and deeds to the world and his brother - although I do do that, of course - it's about my Friends list and the interaction I have with them, both online and In Real Life. That cannot easily be replicated.

Similarly, one of the best features of LiveJournal over my own Blogger Blog and indeed Captain Blue's MSN Blog of d00m! (or even [info]captainbluemsn) is the ability to choose who has access to my ramblings on a per post basis rather than a global one.

I really hope LiveJournal remains the same.

One intial bad sign is that from now on anyone can have a LiveJournal account rather than just over 13 year-olds. I expect we'll see lots of "OMG!1!1!!!1111" comments to our journals in due course...

posted by Captain Blue @ 9:35 AM  

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