More blogging thoughts
Friday, May 15th, 2009 07:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
charmianI finished uploading the LJ journal to wordpress.com. To avoid people complaining about the importing of comments, I made the backup visible only by me. Maybe I should upload a backup of the entries only (no comments) to Dreamwidth as well; although, the appeal of uploading to a wordpress installation is that finally, people can search your blog, so maybe what I should do is re/up to WP.com and then abort the install when it starts doing all of the comments.
I keep on wondering, out of more of a curiosity standpoint, where the people on my flist would go if LJ did suddenly fall into the sea etc. Mind you, I don't think that'll happen. Right now I'm kind of feeling that I want a change of pace, which is why I'm blogging more at Dreamwidth. I also feel like reducing the 'fandomness' of my blog; or, maybe what I mean is that the perspective from which I relate to media has become less of a 'fandom' perspective, and more of a maybe general reader perspective. Or maybe the type of fandom I'm mentally in has shifted.
Maybe this has something to do with my participation in Saiunkoku fandom in the role of a translator/summarizer rather than my normal opining. When you opine or write long pretentious reaction posts, you know that your audience is reading you for your opinions or because they find you entertaining, and it comes with the territory that their either agree with you, or even if they disagree, that they're at least finding the opinions valuable. People who have no interest in opinions which disagree with their own don't bother to read your journal. Therefore, even if there may be disagreements, at least you'll attract the sort of people who are interested in the same aspects of the series. However, if you do translate, then everyone who wants to keep up is obliged to read. This is one reason that I removed the translation/summary posts to my WP blog on my own domain.
I think what I would like to do with the LJ account, I suppose, is use it for locked posts and posts directed to people on LJ. In other words, go friends-only there. I'm not going to delete the journal itself, but I may end up locking all of the posts.
Actually, I think other blog services have really improved their privacy functions. LJ no longer is necessarily the only one that has locking functions. Both WPMU and Tumblr seem to have the functions of a "secret blog," although I haven't tried either one of them.
I wonder how a completely "secret blog" compares with an LJ style journal whose existence is public, even if its content can be private, or a journal which can have private and public sectors? Socially, what are the consequences? Well, one is that the "secret blog" is truly a black box (this is probably what some people truly WANT on LJ though, and actually, I can't think of any reasons not to give them it); its existence can't even be easily seen, especially because WPMU's private blogs allow you to automatically code all external links through a referral privatizer. I'm not sure about Tumblr's secret blogs because I haven't tried them out (anyone want to be invited to my test private tumblr?).
Whereas, with an LJ style code fork, you can't exclude yourself from the directory, nor can you privatize your profile page to a select group. However, the privacy of LJ is clearly visible, with all of the LJs that advertise their friends-lockedness. What would it be like if everyone had a public facing identity, with the option of creating a private facing one(s), which was totally invisible?
I keep on wondering, out of more of a curiosity standpoint, where the people on my flist would go if LJ did suddenly fall into the sea etc. Mind you, I don't think that'll happen. Right now I'm kind of feeling that I want a change of pace, which is why I'm blogging more at Dreamwidth. I also feel like reducing the 'fandomness' of my blog; or, maybe what I mean is that the perspective from which I relate to media has become less of a 'fandom' perspective, and more of a maybe general reader perspective. Or maybe the type of fandom I'm mentally in has shifted.
Maybe this has something to do with my participation in Saiunkoku fandom in the role of a translator/summarizer rather than my normal opining. When you opine or write long pretentious reaction posts, you know that your audience is reading you for your opinions or because they find you entertaining, and it comes with the territory that their either agree with you, or even if they disagree, that they're at least finding the opinions valuable. People who have no interest in opinions which disagree with their own don't bother to read your journal. Therefore, even if there may be disagreements, at least you'll attract the sort of people who are interested in the same aspects of the series. However, if you do translate, then everyone who wants to keep up is obliged to read. This is one reason that I removed the translation/summary posts to my WP blog on my own domain.
I think what I would like to do with the LJ account, I suppose, is use it for locked posts and posts directed to people on LJ. In other words, go friends-only there. I'm not going to delete the journal itself, but I may end up locking all of the posts.
Actually, I think other blog services have really improved their privacy functions. LJ no longer is necessarily the only one that has locking functions. Both WPMU and Tumblr seem to have the functions of a "secret blog," although I haven't tried either one of them.
I wonder how a completely "secret blog" compares with an LJ style journal whose existence is public, even if its content can be private, or a journal which can have private and public sectors? Socially, what are the consequences? Well, one is that the "secret blog" is truly a black box (this is probably what some people truly WANT on LJ though, and actually, I can't think of any reasons not to give them it); its existence can't even be easily seen, especially because WPMU's private blogs allow you to automatically code all external links through a referral privatizer. I'm not sure about Tumblr's secret blogs because I haven't tried them out (anyone want to be invited to my test private tumblr?).
Whereas, with an LJ style code fork, you can't exclude yourself from the directory, nor can you privatize your profile page to a select group. However, the privacy of LJ is clearly visible, with all of the LJs that advertise their friends-lockedness. What would it be like if everyone had a public facing identity, with the option of creating a private facing one(s), which was totally invisible?
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Date: 2009-05-15 05:52 am (UTC)It says: "New members will be allowed to post. They will not be able to make any changes to this tumblelog's settings, unless you promote them to an admin. "
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Date: 2009-05-16 05:17 am (UTC)When you opine or write long pretentious reaction posts, you know that your audience is reading you for your opinions or because they find you entertaining, and it comes with the territory that their either agree with you, or even if they disagree, that they're at least finding the opinions valuable.
Aren't political blogs the same? There are so many, no one bothers to read the ones they don't agree with or aren't amused by. I don't think it's a fannish mindset, per se, because you can be fannish in other ways besides oping. And general readers aren't any more willing to expose themselves to fiction outside of their comfort zone than fannish readers - just because they don't get as involved in the story doesn't mean they want to read something that's alien to their interests or contradicts their beliefs.
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Date: 2009-05-16 05:21 am (UTC)I don't think it is something which solely applies to fandom. I was more talking about myself and my fandom style of blogging, which is mostly opinion/reaction based, except for in Saiunkoku fandom. Frankly, I wish someone else would translate/summarize, but it seems no one else is interested in doing so, sigh.