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It's August, and we're winding toward autumn; there was almost a feeling of it in the air this morning. And the light is starting to have that slanted quality, and while the leaves aren't turning yet, they're closing on it.
There's a post in the works about the trip to Tallinn, but it's at home in Semagic, and it'll be late this evening, if not tomorrow, before it sees posting. Meantime, I was thinking over some things while I was more offline than usual in Finland.
Posting to livejournal is not like a mailing list. It's not shared like a mailing list is; it's your journal and you decide what goes in it, and people do post anything they want to. It's not like private email, either - even if you filter it to one person only, it's still appearing to them like any other post. It's certainly not like writing a letter longhand, and it's not like a paper journal or diary either. Most likely, it's its own thing, but I can't help reaching for a metaphor. It's most like a column in a small-town local newspaper.
This is because it's got about the same readership level - if a column in a local paper is any further in than the fourth page, you can bet there are only about thirty people who will read it. And they're all local. And further, they're all going to have their own opinions on the matter, especially if you're writing about something local. The localities may be virtual on livejournal, but they're localities nonetheless.
With that in mind, would you publish what you do in your livejournal in a local newspaper?
There's a post in the works about the trip to Tallinn, but it's at home in Semagic, and it'll be late this evening, if not tomorrow, before it sees posting. Meantime, I was thinking over some things while I was more offline than usual in Finland.
Posting to livejournal is not like a mailing list. It's not shared like a mailing list is; it's your journal and you decide what goes in it, and people do post anything they want to. It's not like private email, either - even if you filter it to one person only, it's still appearing to them like any other post. It's certainly not like writing a letter longhand, and it's not like a paper journal or diary either. Most likely, it's its own thing, but I can't help reaching for a metaphor. It's most like a column in a small-town local newspaper.
This is because it's got about the same readership level - if a column in a local paper is any further in than the fourth page, you can bet there are only about thirty people who will read it. And they're all local. And further, they're all going to have their own opinions on the matter, especially if you're writing about something local. The localities may be virtual on livejournal, but they're localities nonetheless.
With that in mind, would you publish what you do in your livejournal in a local newspaper?
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Although the more that I think about it, I should really swap them around, seeing as LJ posts can be private or restricted. Meh. Might transfer the blog over here at some point...
An interesting thought just struck me. There's huge interest in the personal letters and journals of dead famous people - you always hear about them being donated to museums and such (the letters, not the dead people!). In the future, will there be an online museum, containing the blogs of dead famous people? Where you can go read and say "Jesus, so and so might have been a brilliant actor/author/humanitarian, but they sure wrote some drivel on blogger!"