About the future of this journal: moving my writing activities to Dreamwidth
Why Dreamwidth?
Dreamwidth, which I tested thoroughly while it was still in closed beta, offers a lot of awesome features that make cross-posting, commenting, foreign-commenting and generally maintaining my writing journal a lot more easier than the other services I'm using (IJ, JF, LJ). For example:
- DW allows crossposting to other sites - such as IJ and JF - and changes made to the DW-post will automatically applied also to the cross-posts. This makes corrections in posted chapters a lot more easier for me than now. In addition, I can set the cross-posted entries to redirect commenting to DW rather than having the commentaries fragmented between the different services.
- DW allows to import your journals from different sites into your DW journal including comments; thus I now have all the nice comments from my LJ times *plus* the comments made on IJ back in one journal (and feel finally complete again).
- DW's limits for entry and comment word counts are a lot more generous than on the other blogging sites (300.000 characters for entries and 16.000 for comments [for comparison: LJ 65.000 & 4.300!]).
- DW's split the friending procedure into "subscribing" and "granting access". Subscribing allows you to keep track of journals on your reading list, but you don't have to reveal your private posts to the subscribers, that's limited to those whom you granted access and those can be filtered further. Makes following your preferred writing a lot more easier. :)
- DW allows to refer to people on other blogging services correctly, without duplicating their user name as belonging to their service.
- You can log into DW with your LJ- or IJ-identity (as Open-ID) and if you validate your email address, then you have virtually all the features of a free account (minus posting entries of course): you can keep a reading list, receive notifications of replies to your comments; you can even upload up to six icons.
- and much more.
In 2008, I moved my writing activities away from LiveJournal when I couldn't bear the uncertainty and annoyance there any more and I found a new, cozy home here at Insane (and let's face it: "insane" is a nice adjective for a physicist in popular culture *g*). I was happy when quite a few of my readers followed me along and got accounts over here as well. Which is the reason that I feel slightly guilty about moving yet again. Therefore ![[info]](http://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) solo and I together offer seven invite codes for settling into DW to our readers. I will keep cross-posting to IJ. I will keep watching my friends list here and I am entirely happy to have IJ as reliable backup archive for my blog entries. But I will set comments to take place on DW from now on and I hope people will bear with my wish for comfort and visit me there as well. Comments to this post are still possible. Growl at me if you feel to do so. (But I make no guarantees about how my rather possessive ficus benjamini might behave about it.) Edit: Invite code count: 1
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After playing around a while - and spending some time checking the imported entries from both LJ (active until March 2008) and IJ (active since I think May 2007; I imported my LJ sans comments back then) - I have the following summary:( on to the long summary )
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Thanks to solo I'm now the proud owner of akk @ Dreamwidth, which I'm going to use as a full-fledged mirror to akk @ IJ. :)
They are currently in closed beta and you need an invite code to open an account of your own, but their implementation of open-id (you can just use your livejournal account for it and they even allow your open-id account up to 6 icons!) makes "foreign commenting" really easy. I also like the option of anonymous commenting with a captcha, in case of spam. That's better than just blocking ano-coms.
I used their nifty import feature to salvage all the comments left to my stories on Livejournal.
However, importing those from IJ didn't work (yet). But that's a known bug and I hope I can copy the IJ comments later on, once that one's sorted out.
I'm certainly curious about how this specific electric sheep turns out!
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A few days ago, I learned about Dreamwidth from solo, which seems to be a truly nifty service once it starts. They are working hard to make moving over from LJ (IJ, JF) as painless as possible, including porting comments! There's a lot of thought being put into the project to avoid most of the inconveniences (for example of friending & friendslock, etc.) on LJ and how to make it smoothly interact with an existing account elsewhere (like here on IJ). :)
If you want to know more: here's the DW-FAQ.
Special Tag: "Do Androids dream of electric sheep?"
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Using LJArchive's word count tool on my Insanejournal resulted in some weird discoveries:
The most often used word with at least four letters as of today before this post is "Subaru" (1563 + 267 "Subaru's"), followed by "Seishiro" with 1329 (+ 331 "Seishiro's") and "Tokyo" at 400 is a distant third to those two. I used "Sakurazukamori" exactly as often as "coffee" (139)! The "Sumeragi" (246) are mentioned twice as often as the "Sakurazuka" (123). "Fanfic" equals "magic" with 108, while "marks" are one count before "phone" (110 to 109). "Kill", "nice", "fandom", "final" and "thanks" form a group with 61 counters each, followed by "japan", "blossoms", "Fuma", "inside" and "pentacle" with 60 and I'm ("Kniggendorf") an "illusion" at 76!
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| 2008-12-14 10:28 |
| Printing blog stories |
| Public |
| nerdy |
| be be be beeeeep! |
| blog, guide, info |
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If you want to print a long text posted in a blog based on the same code as IJ (or LJ fr that matter), there's a simple way to get rid of the elaborate styles and sidebars that are useful for blogging but a waste of paper in archive. Just create a bookmark, give it a recognizable name and copy the following javascript code into "location":
javascript:location.search+=(location.search?'&':'?')+'usescheme=lynx&format=light'
If you are reading a blog-page you'd like to print (or if the style is hard on your eyes), you can just click the bookmark and the page will reload in light-format. This does not change your settings!
...geez. I meant to post this ages ago, when I came to IJ.
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| 2008-04-18 22:08 |
| IJ Web Hosting poll |
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| content |
| blog, info |
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squeaky has posted a poll about which option for a new web hosting provider we as his customers would prefer: http://squeaky.insanejournal.com/72463.html.
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wildilocks created a Wikipedia page comparing the various Livejournal code sites out there.
It's interesting to me that after LJ itself, IJ has the highest updated-in-the-last-24-hours rate despite being only on rank 6 in the total user count [site watched 26.3.2008; data from 23.3.2008]. :)
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| 2008-03-16 11:34 |
| [LJ warning flag - the next one] |
| Public |
| GRRRRRR |
| X-Japan - Standing Sex |
| blog, goatse.ks, info, rant |
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Read Stewardess' post at Insane about LJ's new most popular interests (in comparison to what they normally are).
It's nice to know how much you and your work are valued, also nice to know with what it is listed and associated.
Thanks, SUP, you are making a superior effort of making me feel at home on my Insanejournal.
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| 2007-11-30 10:46 |
| AKK@LJ set to "adults only" |
| Public |
| indifferent |
| MeatLoaf - Bad for Good |
| blog, goatse.ks, info |
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The goat finally shed an "age blocking tool", allowing users to a) censor themselves or b) be judged by the passersby [read about it here].
Since they only have three ages in their books - babies, young teens, and dirty adults (NG - "all ages", PG-13 - "adult concepts" (*snort* about that name!), X - "adult content") - and the majority of my fics isn't exactly pacifier-material, I set the journal to "adult content".
If that blocks any of the people who friended me there: if you are over 18 - check the age you entered in your profile (mustn't be displayed) when you joined LJ. If you are under 18 - welcome on Insane!
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| 2007-08-28 17:44 |
| probably missed replies |
| Public |
| home? |
| awake |
| Ich will alles! |
| blog, info |
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For the last couple of days - a week at most - I didn't receive Insanejournals comment notification emails due to a fascistoid new "feature" of my ISPs basic mail server setting. (Resolved now, by setting my IJ account to a different email address).
In case I didn't reply to your posts or comments, it's likely that I failed to spot them. I'm sorry for that. Please comment here in case I still "owe you an answer". :)
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