Well livejournal hasn't killed IDM, by any means.
The way livejournal works seems to make things work a little differently than
either mailing lists, or blogs. The idea of friends whose journals you read
regularly, and mutual friends, is a little like friendster, but without the
whole circle-jerk feel that friendster has. You write in a livejournal because
you want to record stuff - like you would in a private journal, but also
for a presumably sympathetic audience. It's less ephemeral than e-mail lists,
yet still encourages some spontanaeity in discourse. It doesn't seem
to precipitate flame wars like mailing lists. It's just that magical admixture
of features and limitations that seems to be successful and self-reinforcing.
On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, cutups wrote:
quoted 4 lines Its funny how livejournal has definitely massively taken> Its funny how livejournal has definitely massively taken
> away traffic from mailing lists. I might just have to sign
> on because most lists are ghosttowns these days...
>
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