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Never heard of any of newsday crossword obituaries classified jobs high school sports insider these entities except for livejournal, and that only in parody. Still it& ,s news 12 corp ct times sad to see something people enjoyed close down. Newsweek sale for top high schools zombies tumblr konami code sean hayes straight jacket glee. Newsmax newsweek gold stock adv to buy jokes health buying tv media kit. I kind of figured this newsboys born again lyrics songs wiki shine albums tour jesus freak would happen. No one used vox after the first year, newsies bad romance lady gaga broadway lyrics cast soundtrack quotes songs torrent as far as i can tell. I stopped using it for blogging after a month, and just newsday. Com topdoctors pressplay used it to host mp3s. . Vox exploded and got really good for a while, but it seemed to tail off about a year ago (certainly in my social circle). The tag search was useless and it was a bit. Gimmicky? The navigation and posting was kind of alright with a touch of clunky, and perhaps it wasn t the best solution. My blog there has been transferred to typepad for free, which i have had no previous experience of, so i ll see how that goes. The purported reason for the decision by six apart (to support one platform properly rather than two half-arsedly) seems sound, but i ll have to see how typepad works. Some of the backend stuff (from my perspective, rather than any back end engineering knowledge) looks very similar, so maybe it ll be minimal disruption. I ll miss the question of the day, though. A great idea to try and provoke posting in the lazy. . I was an avid ljer from about 2001 to maybe 2005. For most of that time, it was the center of my online social networking, and for a sad while most of my social life. These days, i still check and comment on my friends journals, i syndicate my blog posts and phonecam flickr uploads, and i occasionally participate in communities, but it no longer as big a presence in my life (grumble mefi grumble facebook grumble grumble) as it has been. Anyway, i remember when vox debuted and we (ljers) all scrambled for accounts. And got them. And friended each other. And. Nothing. No one used it. No one could figure out what to use it for. We had livejournals an the community. What the hell was the point of another one? Like many products, it was a solution to a concocted problem. Unlike the successful ones, however (and, for that matter, very much like products such as wave) the problem was so ill-defined that no one could figure out a reason to be bothered to solve it. . I kind of figured this would happen. No one used vox after the first year yeah, that& ,s what i saw happen- plenty of friends had them, then all of a sudden, silence. The last post in my neighborhood was in 2008. . Vox always seemed to be a good idea that 6a couldn t figure out how to resolve into a finished product. It wasn t half-assed, it just always had the sense of missing something or another that would have helped give users a reason for participating in vox rather than livejournal, myspace, or whatever else. I can t feel much over its passing because it was never much of a part of my life, and it definitely a sign that facebook is the juggernaut here, but oh well. It was a nice try. . It sad. Didn t vox start out as requiring a login to read other vox blogs? I m sad to see livejournal and vox die and be replaced by twitter and facebook. I personally love twitter but the short form is very limiting. Facebook works pretty well for what folks used to do on lj, but the walled garden thing means the content is forever locked inside facebook. . Feeling personally disappointed by this, as i ve just begun paging through jonmc epic 300-top-song series from a few years ago and dunno whether a month will give me time to finish. When i started, i thought, wow, cool. These links still work! The web ephemeral qualities dismay me. . I thought it was great when it first came out. To me that was the big draw. Plus all my lovely internet friends were adopting vox, so it made sense to at least give it a go. I even met a couple people through vox (through mutual friends, really) that i still maintain contact with. But the searches were useless. Tags didn t work. I can t even count the number of times i went looking for some post i made on my vox blog only to give up, frustrated, after thirty minutes of searching through my archives and trying various tag searches. Also? The friends neighbors thing is kind of pointless when everyone you know has stopped blogging. I used their move to typepad free thing as well. I don t want to lose the things i left at vox. Not surprised they closed it up - it always seemed unfinished to me. For a long time i was ok with that, thinking it would evolve and get better. It just. Never did. . I m sad to see livejournal and vox die livejournal isn t being shut down. It not the same as it used to be, for sure--they ve been trying to make the platform more marketable. Since i joined, the company has changed hands twice. They ve added ads and focused on shiny rather than practical features. The one major improvement, tags, was long overdue and is still incomplete. There still an active community there, though. Livejournal especially has been known for its strong fandom presence, although these days it seems as though these are not the customers that livejournal wants. Fandom is still hanging around there, although many are moving to dreamwidth--a code fork set up in part by former lj employees that has better features and no ads. Dreamwidth still requires an invite code to join, but if anyone who wants an lj-like blog not on lj, you can memail me and i ll send you one. (unless i run out. But i ve got quite a few. ). Lj still has pretty strong communities, though the last few years of antics have pissed off a lot of the userbase (shutting down any group dealing with child abuse, including, you know, abuse survivors. , or now allowing comments to be cross-posted to facebook, including from locked posts). . Wow, thanks for that link, cgc373. Abba zabba is amazing. . I used to be a heavy user of lj, until i got out of the habit and then felt a bit like i wanted to put a bit of distance between the soul-baring i did then and the person i am now. I d still be sad if it did close down, though. Mainly because it showed i used to be both a good writer and an epic drama queen. There were are some excellent communities on there, particularly for niche interests (hate on hp slash all you want, but where else will people write it? ) - theladiesloos, fatshionista (shame the inbetweenies com is mostly sales posts as i m not fat enough for fats), the various style comms. Mind you, it would be death to all those rating communities run by people far too old to participate in such teenagerdom. . They may not be shutting down livejournal. But then again, they& ,re not shutting down friendster or myspace, either. I hear usenet still operates, too. . Livejournal isn t going anywhere anytime soon. As far as i know, it the single biggest online community for the entire russian federation. Sort of like how orkut is inexplicably huge in brazil. . Parent company of livejournal, which is now owned by sup, a russian company. Livejournal is doing great in various international markets. Sixapart appears to be in trouble. . Hah, apparently i was the only one who actually used my vox blog. That said, i definitely liked typepad and lj better, so. Yeah. At least they are going to let me switch my stuff over. . Mathowie was a fan, once upon a time. I seem to remember being one of the people who took up his offer of an invite, but i never used the thing. . There seems to be confusion here. Sixapart is the former parent company of livejournal, which is now owned by sup, a russian company. Livejournal is doing great in various international markets. Sixapart appears to be in trouble. This. I pretty much only use lj these days to read my friendspage, but then i don t post much to my twitter or fb either. There have been some folk moving over in various capacities to dreamwidth, but lj is not going to be abandoned by fandom for a long time, if ever. Facebook works pretty well for what folks used to do on lj, but the walled garden thing means the content is forever locked inside facebook. Facebook does almost nothing of what lj does. Actual blogging is practically non-existant on facebook. The notes feature is the closest, but the only time i ve seen them used is when people crosspost from lj. For me the closest competition to lj would be typepad or wordpress or blogger, but none of those have the community friends aspects of lj. And filtering is hugely important to lj. There is now something sort of like that in fb, but then there still nothing like the friendspage. . The only vox i ever read was jonmc s. It was good, but i never felt any need to get my own, really, and didn t really understand why he chose that platform. . Sixapart invented the lj, though, whomever owns it now. They most certainly did not. I still remember the shitfit across the entire damn community when sa bought them up. . Sixapart invented the lj, though, whomever owns it now. Nope, that would be danga. . Vox is one i d not heard of, and i m signed up to a lot of them due to a stint working on a fairly useless myspace also-ran, so i wonder if it was ever all that much of a blip on the radar. And hey, now we have ping! One in, one out i guess. . Though, oddly, it seems danga is still owned by 6a while lj is now owned by sup. Weird. Anyway. Love lj or hate it, danga is also responsible for giving us memcached (first developed for lj), and it& ,s a pretty invaluable part of any large website. . From wiki. On december 1, 2008, six apart announced the acquisition of micro blogging website pownce. On december 15, 2008, six apart shut down the micro blogging website pownce. That sounds like a story that needs more explanation. . Shocking. Also, livejournal is some of the worst blogging social networking software on the planet. . Also, livejournal is some of the worst blogging social networking software on the planet. Why do you think so?. I remember when lj was just servers in brad room. Good times. I know the very recent changes to lj have lots of people i follow leaving in angry swarms, and it was already on its last legs (unless, as mentioned, you re into fandom communities it seems). Really upsetting because frankly i still think it the best inelegant solution for a certain kind of blogger (like, um, me). Twitter doesn t work if you re rambly like me, and also it a pain in the ass to set up in any way that is usable since there so much filtering involved. Mobility isn t more important than those things to me, so it not for me. So you want something you can easily, stably export as well as just look at like a standalone web page of what you ve written. That is if it avoids changing to be like all the others, which doesn t look likely. Ugggg. Sometimes i really want a reboot. Yes, i am that curmudgeon with the lawn when it comes to the web. I miss 1996-2004 or so reeeal badly. . Also, livejournal is some of the worst blogging social networking software on the planet. So, tell me a better platform that has fine-grained friends-filtering controls on individual posts, communities, friendspages, etc. (dreamwidth does have better code overall than lj, but it lj-derived, so i would say it the same platform. ). Tumblr is the new livejournal. Not really. The cultures are completely different. The constituency and the people it attracts are completely different. There are no communities, and the comment field is made for individual comments rather than discussions. . I know the very recent changes to lj have lots of people i follow leaving in angry swarms, and it was already on its last legs (unless, as mentioned, you& ,re into fandom communities it seems). But fandom communities love angry swarms!. Surprised it lasted as long as it did. Took it for a test drive when it launched, was mildly impressed with it and the ease-of-use. But as noted upstream, it didn t do anything particularly unique that couldn t be done elsewhere. And this serves to emphasize something i ve believed for a long time people who really enjoy blogging, social-networking, etc, really really really need to have their own site. Don t rely solely on lj, vox, 6a, mt, wp (), or even blogger - or myspace or facebook or twitter. Get your own domain and use it. Make it yours. Something that can t be taken away. . There not much i can add, because a lot of people said the same stuff i was going to 1) sup owns lj now, not 6a, and thank god. Yes, this fb twitter integration thing is bullshit and stupid. And there was one fuckup after sup bought lj, but compared to the 6a years, it still tons better. Not as good as when brad ran the joint, but i ll take sup over 6a anyday. 2) vox dying? Hahahhaa. I m sorry i hated that thing. I tried it, and there were some interesting features, but it just seemed like it wanted to be myspace which isn t what i was looking for. And meena cutesy widdle designs doesn t sell it for me. 3) i still contend that lj is the greatest social networking site blogging site around. It features of both, and it still has the greatest fine-grained controls for filtering than any other site i ve seen. (as kmz said). There is just nothing like it. I think buzz could ve gotten it down, but their approach was all wrong. A lot of my friends still love lj and will continue to use it. Some have moved on, that ok. But my core friends through the years are still hanging around, maybe not as active, but they re there. My friends aren t all fandom folks either. I ve got plenty of psychedelic magick anarchist-socialist type friends on there. Some days, yes, it lonely. I wish there were an lj revival, at times, but then. I wish it was still small enough to not be mainstream, cuz really? Myspace? Fb? I ll pass. I still think the ultimate is a gopherspace social network. Let get cracking on that! Lolvox. . Davidmsc surprised it lasted as long as it did. Took it for a test drive when it launched, was mildly impressed with it and the ease-of-use. But as noted upstream, it didn t do anything particularly unique that couldn t be done elsewhere. And this serves to emphasize something i ve believed for a long time people who really enjoy blogging, social-networking, etc, really really really need to have their own site. Don t rely solely on lj, vox, 6a, mt, wp (), or even blogger - or myspace or facebook or twitter. Get your own domain and use it. Make it yours. Something that can t be taken away. Well - that what diaspora will do, in theory. . Dwroelands has livejournal ever published an api? One of the appealing things about twitter and facebook is the relative ease of finding alternate clients. Lj has a page listing a lot of clients for different platforms - i use xjournal on my mac, and the web page on my android phone. And if you wanna write your own client, they ve got some docs on that (near the bottom). As to vox closing meh. It always felt like 6a attempting to take lj and repackage it as something they felt comfortable with, lj diverse user-base never seemed to be something they were at all interested in dealing with. Still using my lj. My circles are still largely on it. One of these days i ll sit down and recreate my custom style on dreamwidth and move things over there, all the fiddling with ads and tracking isn t making me happy. . I like typepad quite a bit. Had a vox account, but only to comment on other people& ,s vox blogs. Just seemed a little weird to me. . Older books are made out of trees, right?. A hunter shoots a bear. . Newer. Blu mar ten is an electronic-type production group that started out in the mid 1990s as the duo leo wyndham and chris marigold. Initially making drum n bass in an atmospheric vein and dropping their first single in 1996, the duo signed to ltj bukem good looking label the next year, where they resided until 2001. After parting ways with glr, they mixed things up and dropping a uk garage breaks single, a techno single, and even a mashup of thin lizzie and the carpenters, all before finally releasing their first album in late 2003. Jump ahead to 2009, and the duo is a trio, with two more albums to their collective name, and their revamped website that is now home to a collection of mixes new and old, a growing collection of videos, and a peak into the evolution of a track. . One of their earliest claims to fame was their remix of erykah badu on on (discogs) in 1996, which reached the mainstream top 10 music chart, according to wikipedia (though no mention of which chart). That remix captured the duo downtemo, atmospheric drum n bass sound, which they would carry through a series of singles, split-releases and a handful of remixes. Up to 1999, the most blu mar ten tracks included in one release was the everglade ep, which had four tracks of pure bliss, with a spot of persian influence. It wasn t until 2003 that the duo released an album, continuing their relaxed sound but leaving some of the d n b behind. In 2004, michael tognarelli joined the duo, and they continued their output of drum n bass alongside breakbeat and deep house. The first album for the trio of blu mar ten was released in 2007, their second record on the relatively new exceptional records label. In 2009, the trio started releasing their music on their own, coinciding with the rebirth of their website. Beyond the usual promoting of new material, they dig out lost samples, works in progress (which they call sketches), even the evolution of an idea to a proper tune with samples spanning years of progress. And in the crate of mixes they ve posted, there are seven mixes recorded to cassette from 1992 to 1997, recorded and shared for over 10 hours of dnb memories. And if that wasn t enough, you can hear a 1 hour mix of blu mar ten. Blu mar ten on the youtube panda drum n bass tv channel, run by panda, aka peter altarbor. Final tidbit the post title is in reference to their third blog post from the then-newly revamped website. . Oooh, small world. I think this is where i drop vg roots into the conversation and see which mefi users reveal their taste for apple drink. . Sorry, i posted a smartass in-joke comment which probably wasn t helpful. Have self-flagged it, perhaps a kindly mod will remove my sillyness. Apologies. To try and be more helpful on second attempt i actually know these guys, but this post is so comprehensive i struggle to think of what to add. About the only thing that isn t covered there is their attitude to the business end of music. They re very much on top of the whole industry revolution w. R. T self-distribution, self promotion (social media etc), filesharing piracy, and so on. Not to say they agree with the extremist perspectives a la napster was the best thing that ever happened, corrupt labels good riddance, all music should be free, musicians should be happy to be pirated etc - far from it - but they re not head-in-the-sand about it either. The guys (well, mostly chris) regularly participate in relevant online communities and share related articles they find, and their own direct experience, with up and coming artists. For example, the other week we were told that people coming to their site via twitter have a much stronger conversion rate than people coming from other channels such as forums, and that trackitdown auto-dcma service showed a healthy roi when they trialled it on their recent remixes collection. . Wittgenstein - thanks for the lizzie lizzy correction. Slyfen - thanks for the additional information on the band chris. He did seem to be the voice of the group, but the posts on their website aren t directly attributed to anyone, so i didn t want to give him alone too much credit. I do dig how much they have on their website, and it amusing to see random videos put to their music from chris himself, embracing the youtube format of so many fans. And blu mar ten disco? I never knew. . Older up above the world so high, what& ,s that spacecraft. Books are made out of trees, r. Newer. .
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