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Unitarians, Gaming, Cancer, Sociability, LJ dying?
My presentation to the Melbourne Unitarian Church on The Future of Planet Earth. On the wider scale, it seems that there is a strong emergence of religious humanism among Unitarian Universalists. The former president of Meadville Lombard Theological School, is the author of a new book, Reason and Reverence: Religious Humanism for the Twenty-first Century. All this comes as I'm reading Richard Dawkins' "The God Delusion". It will be nice to make comparison.
In gaming news, my review of Fantasy Imperium is up at RPG.net. I have several others coming up very soon. Will be attending Arcanacon this week. HeroQuest Glorantha pbem has had over 120 posts in the first two weeks and is now into the third scene. Everyway Aesheba game successfully wrapped up last Friday. Before one adopts online roleplaying first get a real life, merci,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
baralier. For designers and swordfighters, this magnificant (if bloody) article on real swordfights. To his credit, Mitchell Toy engaged in correspondence with me over his concerns of "video game violence" (personally I think "fake realism" is a problem).
anthanum alerted me to Cure for Cancer. Further research reveals that it is having trouble getting funding.
Caught recently up withdarklion and SO whilst in Melbourne. Turned 39 on Saturday, and, as for the past three years, completely forgot the day and ended up dining with Paula the MCF, Craig and caseopaya who provided a very fine french cuisine dinner for me - and some very Australian cookies ;-) Had a visit from the mad and dangerous to know, dukeofmelbourne today.
Is Livejournal Dying? since introducing ads? For Firefox users there is a neat login tool and adblocker.
In gaming news, my review of Fantasy Imperium is up at RPG.net. I have several others coming up very soon. Will be attending Arcanacon this week. HeroQuest Glorantha pbem has had over 120 posts in the first two weeks and is now into the third scene. Everyway Aesheba game successfully wrapped up last Friday. Before one adopts online roleplaying first get a real life, merci,
baralier. For designers and swordfighters, this magnificant (if bloody) article on real swordfights. To his credit, Mitchell Toy engaged in correspondence with me over his concerns of "video game violence" (personally I think "fake realism" is a problem).anthanum alerted me to Cure for Cancer. Further research reveals that it is having trouble getting funding.Caught recently up with
darklion and SO whilst in Melbourne. Turned 39 on Saturday, and, as for the past three years, completely forgot the day and ended up dining with Paula the MCF, Craig and caseopaya who provided a very fine french cuisine dinner for me - and some very Australian cookies ;-) Had a visit from the mad and dangerous to know, dukeofmelbourne today.Is Livejournal Dying? since introducing ads? For Firefox users there is a neat login tool and adblocker.
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The LJ usage stats are interesting, but I'm not sure it correlates strongly with the introduction of ads. It's more likely due to the rise of MySpace which seems to have ensnared the vast majority of teenie-boppers who are less interested in journaling than in socializing--something MySpace is probably far better suited to than LJ. Eh, they can have 'em.
On that note, I wonder how many LJers have also moved over to SixApart's MySpace clone VOX.
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The LJ usage stats are interesting, but I'm not sure it correlates strongly with the introduction of ads.
*nods* Probably more coincidence than anything else.
MySpace is god awful. The interface is just terrible.
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No, it doesn't, and I don't think that post says it does (did I miss a key sentence maybe? it's possible)--it's been happening for the past two years, about, since early 2005. It's a long term trend and correlates more with the purchase of LJ by Six Apart. However, I'm with you--I think it's a saturation of the social networking market.
Supposedly a previous fling with banner ads WAAAAAAY back in LJ's history did correlate with a strong decrease in activity. But that is very much the past, and the Internet is a bit different now.
As for Vox, that's a bit harder to determine. Vox is annoying in a lot of ways for hardcore LJers, despite how AJAXed up it is.
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Alright I pay that (metaphorically speaking).
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Ah, a misread on my part - the key sentence is "This changed in early 2005, after LJ became a part of 6A..." etc.
Hmm... It's not ads, it's 6A!
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No, it probably doesn't; I was responding more to what Lev wrote after the link ("since introducing ads").
The AJAX stuff has found its way into LJ as well, especially if you use one of the VOX-based journal styles (which I do). Unfortunately I noticed that it severely degraded performance when viewing journal pages in IE 6. I had to turn a lot of the scripty crap off on my journal to get an acceptable level of responsiveness.