4 posts tagged “livejournal”
Lore Sjöberg: You and Your LiveJournal and You
Do you have what it takes to create a LiveJournal? Well, ask yourself this question: Are you able to put words together? Not in complete, grammatical sentences, mind you. Are you able to take a word and another word and place them one after each other? Then you're set!
Still, if you want your LiveJournal to contain more than two words, you may want a little push in the right direction. Here are some simple LiveJournal guidelines.
Do take quizzes. The best quizzes are the ones that tell you what you are. You fill out a bunch of questions and find out that you're Adm. Adama or Princess Daisy or a crowbar. This is important because not only do they fill space -- your main goal as a LiveJournalist -- but how can anyone know the real you unless they understand that of all the Pokémon, you're Charizard?
Do create your own personalized icon. It's easy to do; just take a screenshot from your favorite movie or TV show and combine it with a quote. The quote doesn't even have to be from the same movie or show. Don't worry about copyright. If you use copyright material in your LiveJournal icon, it's open fair common something. Public something. more...
additional reading:
this place feels more bloggy than journally. i think i like feeling more journally.
the difference? blog articles traditionally are written for a public audience, while livejournal posts are traditionally written for friends.
recently i caught a 6A employee using the terms interchangeably. i still think there is a fundamental difference and rescind my first notcomet wishlist item of importing LJ posts to here. this blog is not a journal -- i'm not ready for my public.
bonus reading material:
alright! now i wanna know why i should double and triple post my photos and text?
todo:
- get my livejournal exported to here
- get my flickr photostream rss captured here
I suppose i have to prod