[NEWS] Five Internet links: Geocities, Livejournal, Tumblr, Quora, predictions

[rfmcdonald]

• CityLab takes a look at Geocities, one of the first online platforms for websites, looking at how it tried to create and maintain online neighbourhoods.


• Ars Technica looks at the promise--sadly unfulfilled--of pioneering blogging platform Livejournal. It really could have been a contender.


• Think Progress notes, more than a month after the purge by Tumblr of NSFW blogs, the far right remains active there.


• This Huffington Post India article looks at the rising presence of pro-Hindutva answers put forth by Indian users on Quora.


• Ars Technica notes that researchers can now, even if you do not actively participate on social media, predict what your content would likely be.

Comments

[dewline]

2. Tragic, what's happened to LJ. But I'm not going back.

3. One suspects that the people running Verizon planned that outcome for Tumblr. Dammit.

5. Disturbing.