What Is This Ninth Month Doing Here
Sep. 1st, 2010 09:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aseSeptember, I am not ready for you.
As you know, Bob, every time![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
news posts, there is a race to be the first to find an offensive item in the LJ news post. Sometimes I roll my eyes and wonder why the noise and fireworks. This time, reliable sources are raising concerns about a security hole. LJ has introduced blogger-like "pingbacks" showing who links to a post, which may show locked content to people who weren't granted access. (See rivkat's post, by way of friends-of surfing through cofax7's journal).
When it comes to LJ/blogging, my rule of thumb is "text will get out", so even in locked posts, I try to write posts that will be embarrassing but not a safety or security hazard if they get loose in the world. With that said, I use LJ/DW as my after-hours hangout; Facebook is my pipeline to college friends, coworkers (past and present), and family; linkedin is strictly business. These groups need different information, so I dislike the thought of cross-posting. A screed about, say, feminism and Star Trek movies is not going to fly in Facebook's least common denominator environment. And the LJ/DW crowd doesn't need monthly "still in SF, still awesome" updates. The take-home message: I can't stop you from cross-posting anything I say on LJ/DW to FB or any other platform, but I will totally judge if you do. This is the only warning I will post.
(I'm not on Twitter. It doesn't embrace my multi-paragraph style to my satisfaction: when I decided I'd use it to post song lyrics chosen to illustrate my mood, as a self-parodying Web 2.0 performance piece, Twitter choked on the very first 170-character Neil Finn lyric fragment I tried to post. Compression by disemvowelment, I decided, would take self-parodying emo one step too far.)
If people are looking for DW invite codes, I have a bunch. Comment or PM and I will deliver.
As you know, Bob, every time
news posts, there is a race to be the first to find an offensive item in the LJ news post. Sometimes I roll my eyes and wonder why the noise and fireworks. This time, reliable sources are raising concerns about a security hole. LJ has introduced blogger-like "pingbacks" showing who links to a post, which may show locked content to people who weren't granted access. (See rivkat's post, by way of friends-of surfing through cofax7's journal). When it comes to LJ/blogging, my rule of thumb is "text will get out", so even in locked posts, I try to write posts that will be embarrassing but not a safety or security hazard if they get loose in the world. With that said, I use LJ/DW as my after-hours hangout; Facebook is my pipeline to college friends, coworkers (past and present), and family; linkedin is strictly business. These groups need different information, so I dislike the thought of cross-posting. A screed about, say, feminism and Star Trek movies is not going to fly in Facebook's least common denominator environment. And the LJ/DW crowd doesn't need monthly "still in SF, still awesome" updates. The take-home message: I can't stop you from cross-posting anything I say on LJ/DW to FB or any other platform, but I will totally judge if you do. This is the only warning I will post.
(I'm not on Twitter. It doesn't embrace my multi-paragraph style to my satisfaction: when I decided I'd use it to post song lyrics chosen to illustrate my mood, as a self-parodying Web 2.0 performance piece, Twitter choked on the very first 170-character Neil Finn lyric fragment I tried to post. Compression by disemvowelment, I decided, would take self-parodying emo one step too far.)
If people are looking for DW invite codes, I have a bunch. Comment or PM and I will deliver.