LiveJournal, journallers, bloggers and more

[Note: this is a repost as you can’t edit a post with a poll in it.]

A child­hood friend of mine, Mark, found my journal many months ago and then joined up, becom­ing bourdieu_boy. Then he found that what he wanted to do with the journal didn’t really suit the style of LJ, and he set him­self up a Word­Press space (I knew this, but I was just reminded because he poin­ted me at a sem­inar he did last year about the BBC’s rep­res­ent­a­tion of China).

I like the style of the space a lot and it has been a better way to read his more aca­demic writ­ing. There have been art­icles around the place too about blog­ging versus journ­alling. I’ve been won­der­ing for a while about how my vari­ous blog­ging is done. There’s a lot of per­sonal blog­ging that goes on under the sur­face on this LJ and I’m think­ing I might sep­ar­ate the polit­ical blog­ging from the per­sonal blog­ging and also run a sep­ar­ate space for my poetry. Many of you already know that I have a space for my poetry on my own site but adding a poem always means a lot of work cat­egor­ising and re-upload­ing pages because it’s not data­based, although it is these days, thank good­ness, based on tem­plates and CSS.

I guess I’d then have three dif­fer­ent sites, two Word­Press ones and an LJ one, and there’d be some way I’d use the vari­ous syn­dic­a­tion options of all three to con­tinue the space that is cur­rently mord­wen’s lounge.

This is an enorm­ous pro­ject. I think some market research is in order.

[Due to the nature of text-based com­mu­nic­a­tion there may be some mis­un­der­stand­ings here. I want to point out that I am in one of the best moods I’ve been in for months and months. All the ‘neg­at­ive’ bits of this are tongue in cheek and were designed to add a little humil­ity to what I thought was look­ing arrog­ant. Also, the ‘how often do you read’ is sort of ‘how often do you read your friend’s page?‘for LJ users. Since this poll has been adjus­ted since it was first posted, the first four respond­ents’ responses (hal­lor­an­elder, damien_wise, qamar and splodge­n­oodles) aren’t show­ing up but I have seen them. If you guys want to re-fill in, you’re welcome…]