Ho, Shit

Jan. 6th, 2009 08:09 am
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Livejournal slashes network admins down to the bone.
LiveJournal, the San Francisco-based arm of Sup, a Russian Internet startup, has cut about 20 of 28 employees – and offered them no severance, we're told.

The company's product managers and engineers were laid off, leaving only a handful of finance and operations workers – which speaks to a website to be left on life support. Matt Berardo, a Yahoo executive hired on last summer, is also believed to be gone.

The quirky site, part blog and part social network, is best known for its users' weird obsessions.
Valleywag occasionally gets things wrong, but this does not bode well. Bradfitz, where are you when your people need you in their hour of need?

[Hat tip to Charlie Stross]
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Dear Livejournal:

I know who my friends are. Leave my goddamn settings and preferences alone.
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Wow, just wow. Remember my post about Judy Fenton? I got feedback, and it's a doozy: every classic usenet bullshit rolled into one post. Accusations of legal misdoings, accusations of positions far more radical than the ones I actually hold, paranoid delusions of grandeur, claims to education far in excess of those demonstrated via one's typing and grammar skills, ending with a whipped frothy tirade.

How sweet. It makes me nostalgic.

And of course, the poster is anonymous.
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I've gotten two things done: I've gotten my pink-and-white theme back, somewhat, although there are still things I want to do with the page, and I've gotten my emacs Livejournal client to post with tags. So, all in all, it's been a successful day, geek-wise. And hey, that was my first time ever hacking elisp. I'm pleased to see that it went so well.

I'm so happy that they've chosen to put tags in, although it would take me forever to update the tags on a given post. There has to be an LJ protocol for changing the tags on a post you've made, right? Not that I want to go through the approximately 445,000 words of LJ posts I've made so far and tag them all.

(Set and Osiris, is it really 445,000 words, not counting comments on other people's blogs? I guess so.)

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