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Blogging Pioneers to Break Apart

Blogging pioneer Six Apart is breaking apart from LiveJournal, another trailblazer that helped bring online journals to the masses.

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LiveJournal Users Can Now Make Money With Google AdSense, If They Pay Up First
Source: TechCrunch

It's notoriously hard for bloggers with a limited audience to monetize the traffic generated by the content they self-publish, and LiveJournal users are no exception.

Twitter DDoS Attack Politically Motivated, Says Report
Source: PC World

The distributed denial of service attack on Thursday that targeted Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal, and several Google sites may have been politically motivated.

Court: No right to shout "douchebag" in a crowded blog - Ars Technica
Source: Ars Technica

A federal court has rejected a former student's First Amendment suit against school officials who punished her for calling them "douchebags" in a LiveJournal post. Right now, the scope of student rights to online speech is anything but clear.

LiveJournal deletes 'about a dozen' jobs
Source: CNET.com

Social-media pioneer LiveJournal is the latest company to announce a round of layoffs, trimming down its employee head count in its San Francisco and Moscow offices.

The Russian Bear Slashes a Social Network
Source: Gawker

The bubble in social networking has burst, decisively. LiveJournal, the San Francisco-based arm of Sup, a Russian Internet startup, has cut 12 of 28 U.S. employees — and offered them no severance, we're told.

Five Distracting Sites That Totally Steals Your Day

Okay, so there I was: I got home, finished up whatever homework I had to do, and sat down to do my article for the day. Needing some inspiration, I started looking around some blogs and message boards I go to and see whatever topics causes a creative spark.

Livejournal leaks user photos
Source: Reputation Defenders Blog

By default, all photos uploaded by LiveJournal users are broadcast to feed readers, even if the user thinks the photo is private. Learn how to protect your photos.

LiveJournal & SUP
Source: LiveJournal News

Six Apart has sold LiveJournal to SUP. SUP is setting up an advisory board, and LiveJournal users will be able to have a greater influence over LiveJournal policies.

LiveJournal is acquired by Russian SUP
Source: Russia-IC

The Russian company SUP acquired LiveJournal from Six Apart for $30 million. SUP is establishing a new company LiveJournal, Inc. to manage and operate LJ.

SixApart Sells LiveJournal To A Russian Group
Source: GigaOM

Less than three years after it acquired LiveJournal, San Francisco-based blogging software company, SixApart has decided to sell the business to a Russian group, SUP. SixApart is the company behind well known publishing platforms, TypePad and MoveableType.

LiveJournal Says Users are Responsible for Content of Links
Source: Slashdot

Many of you might remember the previous story about LiveJournal erroneously deleting hundreds of users as suspected paedophiles, spurred on by pressure from the group, Warriors for innocence.

LiveJournal creator leaves as Six Apart fails to spin
Source: Valleywag

Word is that Brad Fitzpatrick, the founder of LiveJournal and chief architect of Six Apart, is leaving the troubled blog-software company.

Be an Instant Publisher with Easy to Use Blog Publishing Tools

Blogging is the modern day journal. You do not have to be an excellent writer; but, if you are able to show your passion for a particular subject then you will definitely be a successful blogger.

Breakdowns: A drunk employee kills all of the websites you care about
Source: Valleywag

365 Main, a datacenter on the edge of San Francisco's Financial District, is popular with Soma startups for its proximity and its state-of-the-art facilities.

23 Best Social Networking Toolbars and Plugins for Firefox (including Firevine!)
Source: Mashable!

A huge list of social networking tools. Firevine's even listed (version 0.3.1 though :-()!

Mass Deletion Sparks LiveJournal Revolt
Source: CNET

Thousands of LiveJournal customers are rebelling against the company's recent decision to censor hundreds of sex-themed discussion groups, a broad swath that has led to the removal of literary critiques and fan-written fiction about Harry Potter.

Well we really screwed this one up…
Source: LiveJournal News

Barak Berkowitz issues a public statement after a number of LiveJournal communities were suspended after anti-paedophile vigilantes complained. Nearly all the communities were completely innocent.

Mass deletion sparks LiveJournal revolt
Source: CNET

"Thousands of LiveJournal customers are rebelling against the company's recent decision to censor hundreds of sex-themed discussion groups, a broad swath that has led to the removal of literary critiques and fan-written fiction about Harry Potter."

LiveJournal say fans are pædophiles
Source: prattle.net

The People's Republic of LiveJournal: Internet Jihadists have declared war on LiveJournal, ostensibly for the sake of the chiiiiiiiiildren.

May the 4th Be With You
Source: LiveJournal News

LiveJournal has purged the usernames of inactive accounts, and people who pay for their accounts may manage and display 100 comments per page. INFORMATION RELATING TO THIS ITEM

China's Evil Censorship Continues: Bans LiveJournal
Source: Mashable!

I know we're supposed to be respectful of other cultures, but this is abhorrent to me: according to an email we got today, China has blocked LiveJournal to prevent bloggers from giving political commentary.

China Blocks LiveJournal
Source: Wired News

The Chinese government began blocking access to the popular blogging site LiveJournal on Friday, cutting off its citizens from the roughly 1.8 million blogs the service hosts.

Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy: The Greatest Generation Gap Since Rock and Roll
Source: New York Magazine

As younger people reveal their private lives on the Internet, the older generation looks on with alarm and misapprehension not seen since the early days of rock and roll. The future belongs to the uninhibited.

Kids, the Internet, and the End of Privacy: The Greatest Generation Gap Since Rock and Roll
Source: New York Magazine

"Yeah, I am naked on the Internet," says Kitty Ostapowicz, laughing. "But I've always said I wouldn't ever put up anything I wouldn't want my mother to see."

Net prankster lays bare 'Casual Encounters'
Source: The Register (UK)

A Seattle programmer who posed as a woman looking for casual sex and published the email addresses, photographs and telephone numbers of the men who responded has earned himself instant notoriety.

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