Read My Blog if LJ Goes Under

I’m sure you’ve heard the news that the com­pany run­ning LiveJournal has a non-​​technical skele­ton crew man­ning the ship right now.  A stiff breeze could take the whole thing down in that sit­u­a­tion.  Welcome to the Bush Economy! We may be get­ting rid of the man, but his effects shall be felt for years to come.

Anyway, The vast major­ity of my Blog read­ers are on LJ.  Do me a favor?  Go here: http://​www​.jere​mi​ah​tol​bert​.com/​b​l​og/
And book­mark my page so you can find me in a post-​​LJ world should you need to?  Coming up soon, I’m going to try and make a post for LJ folks on RSS feed read­ers like Google Reader so that you can read all ofy­our for­mer LJ friends in one place should the unthink­able hap­pen.  In the mean time, it might not be a bad idea to down­load the XML files for all your posts in LJ in case you need to migrate to another service.

If you’re a mem­ber of the F&SF com­mu­nity from LJ and you’re relo­cat­ing to new digs, drop me a line and I’ll post an announce­ment here about your move.  I’ll keep an updated list of LJ han­dles. Hopefully this won’t be nec­es­sary, but if it is, I want to do some­thing to help pre­serve the community.

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    1. Adrian Faulkner says:

      As I twit­tered, more info (press release) from LJ Inc.

      http://​live​jour​nal​inc​.com/​p​r​e​s​s​_​r​e​l​e​a​s​e​s​/​2​0​0​9​0​1​0​6​.​php

      I’ve backed up my account (man­mela) but not plan­ning to move due to hav­ing a per­ma­nent account

    2. Jeff says:

      The real blink­ing red light in that announce­ment: the new head of the shop is the VP in charge of finance and admin­is­tra­tion. Whenever that hap­pens, it means that things are really desperate.

      I per­son­ally use ScribeFire in FireFox to auto­mat­i­cally send all my posts to both LJ and Blogger. I fig­ure if both of them die, it’s because there is no longer reli­ably deliv­ered elec­tric cur­rent on Earth.

    3. Jeremiah Tolbert says:

      Yeah, that was my thought too, the VP.

      Re Blogger and LJ both, hilar­i­ous, and true probably.

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