I have a large number of friends who use LiveJournal for their blogging/journaling.  I think they actually provide a pretty cool service and I like a lot of their community building things.  At the same time, I find myself frustrated with parts of it.

The biggest thing I get frustrated with is comments.  Since many people on LJ are fairly anonymous, you can end up being on the friends list of people who you are at most only aquainted with.  Even though you read these people’s posts every day, and they may feel comfortable with you reading them, they still aren’t someone you know face to face.  So I find myself wondering just how acceptable it is to be responding to some people’s posts.

The other thing I run into with comments is wondering how much I’d like to share with all the other people who can read comments on a post.  In many cases I’d prefer to just email a response if it is a subject that is fairly personal.  But sometimes it feels weird for me to be emailing things like that to a total stranger.

Anyone else here use LJ? What are your thoughts about it?

Alexa has released a new search service in conjunction with Google.  It’s pretty interesting.  Here’s the result I get when I pull up the page on my site.  It’s kind of interesting. Though I’d like my traffic rank and links pointing in numbers to be better :).

What blogging archetype am I most like?

You are a David Weinberger.
You are smart, savvy, interested in why people do what they do,
enjoy questioning yourself and are not balding.
Take the What Blogging Archetype Are You test at GAZM.org

The interesting thing about thisis that I’ve been reading David’s book Small Pieces Loosely Joined (and am just about to finish it actually).  I’ll be posting a review once I finish it up.

Last week someone from a mailing list I’m on was in town for work. A number of us from the list got together for sushi last Thursday night. Since the list was a rave related list I brought along a mix CD, something I usually do for people in the scene I meet. He was like, “oh cool! Is this the one that starts out with all those funky samples? I love listening to that one when I work out.” It’s cool to know that people I don’t know face to face are downloading and enjoying my music. It makes me happy.

Random music related observation. Some of my favorite music is the stuff I listened to when my life was at its lowest point. I’m starting to realize that as I collect music from that time period. I wonder if it’s because music was the one place I could escape to and feel good back then.

Up way too early to get into work early so I can leave early to get to my massage. I need it this week. Though I don’t feel quite as stressed as I did for the last one I had. I actually found myself getting MORE tense as the massage went on. Of course, we’d just let go our DBA earlier that day and I think that had something to do with it.

Diogenes the Cynic. “Most men are within a finger’s breadth of being mad.”

[Quotes of the Day]

Augh. I don’t often swear here, but my local WB affiliate is a bunch of fuckwits. I was watching Angel and it was right at the end. And right as you about to see what the big cliffhanger is it suddenly flips to ‘Tonight on the 10 o’clock news’. Then flips back just in time for the credits. Luckily a friend kept me appraised of what happened. Oh yeah, and I was right about what would happen.

I fear I am getting sick again. This isn’t fun. I’ve had a sore throat all day. Ugs. I’ve done so well with keeping healthy and it sucks.

The fourth episode of Chobits continued to keep up the level of entertainment of the previous episodes.  It’s interesting seeing how the story is progressing along compared to the manga.  I think within the next two weeks it will catch up.  Chi is definitely one of the more interesting ‘robot girl’ characters in recent past.

Dragons, the policeman knew, were supposed to breath fire.