And following his request (and ignoring his use of bleh terms), I'm doing just that.
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Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 21:19:56 -0500
From: Medlir <medlir@livejournal.com>
To: letters@technologyreview.com
Subject: Blog This By Henry Jenkins
Bleh, I'm somewhat disappointed at the mentioning of blogger.com by name
with no mention of livejournal.com even though LiveJournal has 487678
users, and it's open-source code is used by numerous other sites
including:
http://www.deadjournal.com
http://www.parajournal.com
http://hive.egnu.org
http://journal.shadowriders.org
http://www.fearthedark.net
And other sites that mimic it such as...
http://www.dreamjournal.org/dj/
http://www.zx-2.net
http://www.woohu.com
There's also a rather large contingent of "web journalists" who abhor
the terms "blog", "blogger" and "blogging", and would never use them to
decribe their web journaling. Bloggers are almost by definition *only*
the people who use blogger, and not any other service or method of web
journaling such as LiveJournal, GreyMatter
(http://www.noahgrey.com/greysoft/), or even the custom and manually
updated solutions that many people use. I got the impression the
article was supposed to be about all web journalists... *shiver* at the
use of proprietary terms to describe a web culture that's much larger
than the terms used.
Rick
aka Medlir
LiveJournal User