In Soviet Russia, LJ updates you

[sigma7]

So yes, LJ has struck an iceberg and is taking on water. It's taken a while for (')SUP to take a shot at the Six Apart School of Epic Fail Management, but it looks like they're getting a running start, at least. (I also like the friendly tone of the CNET article -- "affected by the layoff" being the most passive term for "shitcanned" that I've seen lately from someone who wasn't actually cutting the strings.)

So it's time to ask what color your blog-parachute is -- me, I've got my never-updated Blogger site (I should've jumped on it sooner, if only to gank my preferred username from whichever Malaysian cockblocker claimed it and has since done jack with it), my created-last-night (in a prescient trance?) Twitter feed (which I don't plan on using much as I have no mobile devices and will cut off my own hands before I use LoudTwitter, but at least I got my username this time), and the truly crafty have probably stumbled onto my low-key presence in a few other sundry corners of the Internets.

As most of my f-list have already noted, if LJ does take a double-tap to the head in a back alley off Gorky Park (and I don't expect it to disappear tonight or tomorrow but I don't expect to see the end of another year of paid time), the real loss is going to be the communities established via LJ -- my f-list is an unmitigated web of awesome, and I don't see a social service out there that stands to replicate it. But if you haven't backed up your LJ yet -- PC users, grab LJArchive and everybody else try ljdump (points to alasdair for tracking down the latter) -- now is really the best time. Go now.

Comments

[dvandom.livejournal.com]

An Italian cockblocker grabbed dvandom.blogspot.com, even though dvandom is my Blogger ID. Grr.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

There should be a neologism for ID cock-blocking blogger. "Blogblocker" doesn't quite encompass the level of spite implied. "Cockblogger" is an entirely different time of Internet personality. "Blogcocker" is about the closest I can arrive to that Aristotelian ideal, and yet my brain is trying to invent what else that could possibly mean and I'm successfully stopping it from engaging that line of thought every time....

[autobotsrollout.livejournal.com]

Wordpress is better than Blogger anyway.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

All of my preferred IDs are blogcocked on WordPress, unfortunately. Though from using WP installed locally, I concur -- it's the gold standard of blogging interfaces right now.

(No, "blogcocked" doesn't quite work, does it?)