Kids these days, they say, can't write anymore. Long form communication is dead. The Internet is just pictures of cats and What I Ate Today.
Except... some of the most prolific bloggers I know are also prolific on Twitter and/or Facebook and crosspost. These prolific types also are not on, or no longer on LJ -- most use WordPress. Doesn't quite translate to the end of blogging. Being successful, that is.
I have what is to me a large LJ Friends Page, and I read the digest a couple of times a day. Non-LJ blogs I use Blogger to give me a digest. There are slow days, but I get something every day.
Randall Munroe, of course, knows how to capture all these feelings, with xkcd in stick figures:
The alt-text from a mouse hover reads, "[image: Oh, because Facebook has worked out SO WELL for everyone.]"
Of course LiveJournal hasn't made it easy, ever since they sold themselves. The Russian owners, the whole customer service debacle of LiveJournal Release 88 -- which was never completely resolved, etc.
Dreamwidth isn't particularly active among the people I follow, but the community is nice and the customer service is outstanding. I blog on Dreamwidth and crosspost to LJ -- there are subtle differences between DW and LJ and it's easier this way. And Anonymous comments are easier on LJ, alas, from the crap I get. But Mrs. Dr. Phil is amongst the many who don't have accounts on either and I'm not cutting her off. Various open login options exist including Facebook -- and everyone has trouble with them. And yeah, I also crosspost a link to LiveJournal from Facebook.
But I have a Permanent Account on LiveJournal, so there's no reason NOT to post/crosspost/comment there. And I have no desire to roll-my-own and put a WordPress or other blog on my website. So I'm on LiveJournal til they close down the servers.
Which hopefully isn't any time soon.
Dr. Phil
http://www.livejournal.com/~dr_phil_physics/
http://dr-phil-physics.dreamwidth.org/
http://www.dr-phil-physics.com/
(Guess which one of these three is grossly out of date... grin.)
