some links which may be of interest

A staff member responds to both the dissatisfaction over the cross-posting and the incidents with staff members behaving inappropriately:

http://news.livejournal.com/129945.html?thread=90277529#t90277529

Another staff member confirms the 50/50 stat, and explains the staff's reasoning behind the exemption for Cyrillic services:

http://news.livejournal.com/129945.html?thread=90331545#t90331545

Here's also an interesting post about web 2.0 and web 1.0
http://nikkiscarlet.dreamwidth.org/285367.html

( further thoughts on the split in LJ user practices )