not a good day on the internet
Jan. 6th, 2009 11:14 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
foxtongueValleywag: LiveJournal, the San Francisco-based arm of Sup, a Russian Internet startup, has cut 12 of 28 U.S. employees.
CNET: LiveJournal clarified that it was "about a dozen" cuts, amounting to about a fifth of the company.
The beginning of the end. Again.
Given the current situation, I'm going to start running my LJ Archive back-up daily, instead of monthly, and cross my fingers that someone out there finds a way to make LJbook run again. I don't believe the entire site will evaporate overnight or anything, but I've been writing on Livejournal since 2003. To lose it would be a death in the family, as the site contains not only a clear and concise map of my life and a full history of my writing, it also holds all of you, my friends and family who daily sustain me. How many of us even have each others real names, let alone e-mail, address or phone number? This is the medium of the majority, if Livejournal vanished, so would our ability to keep in touch.
In the interests in making sure we don't lose what we've built if it all falls down goes boom, I've whipped together a quick little poll. Don't feel you have to fill it all out, but if you don't give me, say, your phone number, who else will call you up on your birthday to sing you e.e.cummings?
If you don't feel comfortable posting your personal information to a livejournal poll, e-mail whatever contact info you like to my hotmail address: bloodkrystal@. Also, here I am on: facebook - myspace - flickr - you.tube - del.icio.us - twitter.
[Poll #1326405]
CNET: LiveJournal clarified that it was "about a dozen" cuts, amounting to about a fifth of the company.
The beginning of the end. Again.
Given the current situation, I'm going to start running my LJ Archive back-up daily, instead of monthly, and cross my fingers that someone out there finds a way to make LJbook run again. I don't believe the entire site will evaporate overnight or anything, but I've been writing on Livejournal since 2003. To lose it would be a death in the family, as the site contains not only a clear and concise map of my life and a full history of my writing, it also holds all of you, my friends and family who daily sustain me. How many of us even have each others real names, let alone e-mail, address or phone number? This is the medium of the majority, if Livejournal vanished, so would our ability to keep in touch.
In the interests in making sure we don't lose what we've built if it all falls down goes boom, I've whipped together a quick little poll. Don't feel you have to fill it all out, but if you don't give me, say, your phone number, who else will call you up on your birthday to sing you e.e.cummings?
If you don't feel comfortable posting your personal information to a livejournal poll, e-mail whatever contact info you like to my hotmail address: bloodkrystal@. Also, here I am on: facebook - myspace - flickr - you.tube - del.icio.us - twitter.
[Poll #1326405]
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Date: 2009-01-06 10:00 pm (UTC)User numeric ids and names. It's portable as well, Perl with only a small number of CPAN modules (notably GDBM_File, XMLRPC::Lite).
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Date: 2009-01-07 08:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-01-07 10:22 am (UTC)As a lovely bonus, you can also use it to consolidate multiple lj accounts into one, if that's your bag.