Confessions of a Ferris Wheel Junkie

and now for something with depth

Or an entry with links:
So - apparently LiveJournal is on the verge of being owned by Six Apart - proprietors of MT and TypePad. Interesting...
This scoop came to me via the lovely Prema; and can be read about Here.

Also seriously worth checking out via Prema's lj - Bloggers Without Borders - a citizen journalism hub. Besides the coolness of the idea itself - lets side track and focus on how hot 'citizen journalism hub' sounds! It's catchy, it's well-intentioned, it's well-informed. And it's doing a lot in the way of Relief news and support in the wake of what could be largest tragedy of our lifetimes.

And not to be understated in conjunction with paragraph 1: yeah - I still have my livejournal . My thoughts do not fall into the assumed categories of oh man what if you have to always pay for livejournal from now on... Rather I am interested to see what developments unfold. If it is a payment issue, I'm sure I'll just let mine lapse and go by the way of time. But I dont see that being the issue. I see the issue as keeping the appeal to the kiddie bloggers. Livejournal traditionally appeals to the high school set - the kids well aware of the coolness that is blogging yet unaware of how to procure a site from which to use MT or other tools. (Or, not lucky enough to have a Blog Mom as cool as Lay-C.). Does the young appeal continue to grow or falter? Or does the entirety of the blog community not even blink at this swallowing up of a phenomena?
Either way - we'll all blog on again. Even if things get a bit too heavy, we'll all blog on again.
(Shame on me for that poor poor song reference....)