LJ sold...
Jan. 6th, 2005 10:39 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
julietIn case anyone's missed it, LJ's been sold. To Six Apart (who run MoveableType etc etc). Post from Mena of Six Apart, Six Apart FAQ.
All the above links emphasise that no changes are planned, LJ isn't going anywhere, etc etc. It should be noted that LJ's been a private company for a good while now; moving ownership to another private company who are also involved in blogging, recognise the different strengths of LJ & MoveableType, and are smallish with no immediate indications of Evil, isn't necessarily a big deal.
Those of you in cynical mode may wish to back up your LJ (I shall be; but then I've been meaning to anyway for ages): various tools available.
Update: although two of those are Win-only, and I wasn't able to get the third to work first time (& now have to wait an hr to try again due to their caching system). Anyone got any Linux/Mac archiving tool suggestions?
Oh yes, & apparently there's some kind of Big Divide between LJers & webbloggers. How bizarre. The main reason I prefer LJ is the Friends page meaning that I don't have to keep checking through a huge list of bookmarks for new content. I can see no huge religious war here.
All the above links emphasise that no changes are planned, LJ isn't going anywhere, etc etc. It should be noted that LJ's been a private company for a good while now; moving ownership to another private company who are also involved in blogging, recognise the different strengths of LJ & MoveableType, and are smallish with no immediate indications of Evil, isn't necessarily a big deal.
Those of you in cynical mode may wish to back up your LJ (I shall be; but then I've been meaning to anyway for ages): various tools available.
Update: although two of those are Win-only, and I wasn't able to get the third to work first time (& now have to wait an hr to try again due to their caching system). Anyone got any Linux/Mac archiving tool suggestions?
Oh yes, & apparently there's some kind of Big Divide between LJers & webbloggers. How bizarre. The main reason I prefer LJ is the Friends page meaning that I don't have to keep checking through a huge list of bookmarks for new content. I can see no huge religious war here.
