On Nov 3, 2003, at 3:29 PM, Kent williams wrote:
quoted 18 lines The way livejournal works seems to make things work a little>
> 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.
saying that livejournal doesnt bring about the flame warrior in people
leads me to believe that you havent read much on livejournal. ;-p
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