Hatrack River Forum: OK LiveJournal users, what do I need to know?

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Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :

Broke down and set up an LJ page, just to learn how to use these things.

Tips? Tricks? Pitfalls?

Posted by Stan the man (Member # 6249) on :

I use Google for my blog stuff.

Tip: Don't stink at design like me.

edited to add: I'm gonna get addicted to visiting your blog. Just letting you know. Your columns are awesome and this will only make it more addictive. [Big Grin]

[ February 28, 2005, 02:35 PM: Message edited by: Stan the man ]

Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :

Not especially. LJ's been around for years, columns on it now would be pretty old news. I am thinking of it as a potential marketing method for my column, though.

I've always just run my own sites in the past, doing my own design and running my own scripts, but I never seem to remember to go post stuff. There's a blog on the front page of my site at chrisbridges.com and I'm lucky if I remember to post there once a season or so. But with LJ you can post by e-mail! Very handy, indeed.

Posted by blacwolve (Member # 2972) on :

I just friended you, hope you don't mind, I'm lynnet.

Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :

Feel free. Friends are always good [Smile]

Posted by Hobbes (Member # 433) on :

Friended is a verb now? [Wink]

I'd friend you but I don't have LJ, despite posting there about once a week.

Hobbes [Smile]

Posted by xnera (Member # 187) on :

You've been friended. [Big Grin]

I used to be active in LiveJournal Support, so if you have any questions, let me know and I can either answer them or point you in the right direction.

Posting by email is cool. There's also posting via phone. Any since you're a Paid Account, you likely have an account on pics.livejournal.com, which is their beta photo hosting service. Oh, and if you're going to be posting really long entries (or stupid "memes"), make sure you use an LJ-cut.

Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :

Friending has been a verb in LJ for a long time. [Smile]

I'll friend you, Chris! (even though I already have too many friends... >_>;; )

[ February 28, 2005, 04:38 PM: Message edited by: Ryuko ]

Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :

Anybody use any of the downloadable clients?

Posted by HollowEarth (Member # 2586) on :

This is English. We reserve the right to change at will which part of speech a word belongs to.

Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :

This is English. We reserve the right to change at will the part of speech to which a word belongs.

Posted by Little_Doctor (Member # 6635) on :

Personally, I like Myspace.com You can ahve a blog, and meet a bunch of cool people! [The Wave]

Edit: That doesnt make it too much different form any other blog, does it? I guess I just like the way its organized better.

[ February 28, 2005, 05:43 PM: Message edited by: Little_Doctor ]

Posted by Annie (Member # 295) on :

Oh, thank you for rescuing that poor little preposition out there. The little guy had me worried.

Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :

Just doing my job, ma'am.

(whistles, swings up on horse, rides off into fully grammatical sunset as theme song swells)

Posted by Dragon (Member # 3670) on :

One of my friends uses a downloadable client to post, but I don't remember what its called...

(and I friended you too, btw, I'm ArrowToAshes)

Posted by Lime (Member # 1707) on :

Consider yourself friendinated. I'm nichlswolfwood.

I like the Logjam client (under Linux), but Aurora (I think that's right) is good for Windows posting. If you use Firefox, then Deepest Sender also works well, though it's mp3 detection doesn't as far as I can tell.

[ February 28, 2005, 07:31 PM: Message edited by: Lime ]

Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :

The LJ meme is spreading like a virus...

Posted by xnera (Member # 187) on :

Waaaaaaay back when I used Semagic for a while. I don't use a client these days, unless you count Notepad as a client. [Razz]

I usually type longer entries in Notepad first just in case the web update page decides to crap out on me.

quote:
I like the Logjam client (under Linux), but Aurora (I think that's right) is good for Windows posting. If you use Firefox, then Deepest Sender also works well, though it's mp3 detection doesn't as far as I can tell.

LogJam is by a former LiveJournal developer, so I'd trust it for reliability. I've never heard or Aurora, and I don't see it on the clients page. Where'd you find it, Dan? I'd be interested in checking it out.

My advice with clients is to stick with the more well-known or popular clients. There's less issues with clients than with other tools a la those posted to lj_nifty, but I'm very leery of third-party utilities ever since the "make my journal friends-only" tools that erased every entry that didn't have a subject. I'd rather paranoid about losing data from my journal.

Did anyone see Six Apart's new LiveJournal page? I like it. They also added a LiveJournal section on their Support page.

Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :

Chris...one of your entries says that plans are "underfoot" for your column to appear in print. For real?

Tell us more!!!

Posted by HollowEarth (Member # 2586) on :

In my defense, I knew that it was wrong, but I couldn't figure out why.

Posted by Chris Bridges (Member # 1138) on :

There's been an ongoing project to make our paper more interesting to the younger demographics. At one of the recent meetings -- where teen and twenty-something interns and employees are asked their opinions -- my column was brought up and praised. Since then there has been talk of bringing it to the print edition, but I've no intentions of jinxing it or making assumptions. If it does, cool, if not, I'm having fun online without length restrictions.

It'd be a kick, though [Smile]

Posted by Bob_Scopatz (Member # 1227) on :

Good luck!

Posted by Ryuko (Member # 5125) on :

You can always post the long version online...

[Smile]

I use Semagic and I like it, though at this point it's less cool, since it can't show me pictures of my icons and my emoticons. It does, however, make sure that I won't lose my entry or whatever, so in that respect it's nice.

Except it always blinks when there's new entries on my friends page, which is just... distracting.

Posted by Anna (Member # 2582) on :

I friended you too (I'm annafrenc)
I'm already happy at the idea to read your blog [Smile]

Posted by xnera (Member # 187) on :

quote:
Except it always blinks when there's new entries on my friends page, which is just... distracting.

You should be able to turn this off in the options somewhere.

Posted by Vána (Member # 6593) on :

I use a client, but I have no idea which one. It blinks with there's a new post to my friends page - I don't think it's distracting, though. I love it!