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rfmcdonaldOn Saturday, James Nicoll--ruling blogger of English-language Livejournal--linked to a new video advertisement on YouTube for Livejournal.
In it, an anonymous narrator suggested that Livejournal would meet the needs of people who would like to write at length in anonymity, to shed the public identities of Facebook and the like for something pseudonymous, even anonymous.
I said in the comments of that YouTube video that I wished Livejournal had done it before now. Visiting that page again, I see that it recorded only 647 views. That's up a few hundred since the first time I saw the video, but still. The commenter at James' blog who suggests the whole thing is moot until the people who left Livejournal for Facebook come back is entirely right.
I mentioned in May that Livejournal was also being positioned as a competitor to Medium, as a host for long-format writing. This new use is not incompatible with that previously-stated use, yet I have to wonder. Does Livejournal know what it is doing? Or is it desperately casting about for something that can keep it going in the English-speaking world?
In it, an anonymous narrator suggested that Livejournal would meet the needs of people who would like to write at length in anonymity, to shed the public identities of Facebook and the like for something pseudonymous, even anonymous.
I said in the comments of that YouTube video that I wished Livejournal had done it before now. Visiting that page again, I see that it recorded only 647 views. That's up a few hundred since the first time I saw the video, but still. The commenter at James' blog who suggests the whole thing is moot until the people who left Livejournal for Facebook come back is entirely right.
I mentioned in May that Livejournal was also being positioned as a competitor to Medium, as a host for long-format writing. This new use is not incompatible with that previously-stated use, yet I have to wonder. Does Livejournal know what it is doing? Or is it desperately casting about for something that can keep it going in the English-speaking world?
