Lotripper

I've been collecting journaling and social networking and migration articles from metafandom and other places. So here's a giant post with perhaps too much food for thought.

• A good summary of LJ management asshattry
  
  
• LJ is planning to mark journals and communities as "adult". It's not so much a problem to me that kids can't see smut (kids with half a brain can lie, says the mom). It's that anything protected from children is also protected from the general public. So anyone curious has to at probably get an LJ and get age-certified somehow, and possibly join the community to see the stories. Definitely a chilling effect.
  
  
• The Omniture tracking stats thing turns out to be not that big a deal, according to die-hard LJ critic stewardess.
  
  
• 10 Ways Flickr Builds Communities (from Business Week of all places, via bokardo)
  1. Engage
     Don’t just listen to your community. Engage
  2. Enforce
     Let the community help set standards and policies for appropriate behavior --then enforce them
  3. Take Responsibility
     Fess up immediately when you make mistakes
  4. Step Back
     Don’t be afraid to step back and let your customers take over
  5. Give Freely
     Never underestimate the allure of a free T-shirt (or sticker, or button…)
  6. Be Patient
     Take knee-jerk reactions with a grain of salt
  7. Hire Fans
     Make sure your employees are as passionate about your product as your community’s most die-hard fans
  8. Stay Calm
     Develop a thick skin
  9. Focus
     Be flexible but don’t lose sight of your priorities
  10. Be Visible
      stay human
  
  SOMEONE SEND THIS TO 6A!

( more about RSS readers, social networking, blogging in public and non-journal fandom sites )

There's a problem with making feeds (syndicated journals) on LJ and clones -- mainly important for communities. If the feed is too big, the receiving journaling system can't handle it and shows an error message that it's too big in the feed user info. This happens when the first 25 posts have a content greater than 300kb. If you are the maintainer of a community, please read this!

brown_betty ( has a solution: )


ETA: I thought I posted this over here on IJ, but it seems to have been set private, wtf? Anyway, am reposting with improved instructions, especially for communities.