LiveJournal Buyout Rumor

Aaron B. Russell writes "Om Malik reports that Six Apart are looking to buy blogging community LiveJournal.com. Rumour? I hope so. I seriously hope so. Neither Six Apart nor Danga Interactive (the company behind LiveJournal) have commented on the situation yet. What impact will this have for the users and volunteers over at LiveJournal? Chris Schmidt, a volunteer at LiveJournal, hypothesizes here(1) and here(2) ." Sources close to LiveJournal creator Brad Fitzpatrick say this is just a rumor, and that LJ is not being sold. Update: 01/06 by J : Our sources were way wrong.

Comments

Re:FP

[SlamMan]

If blogs are digital garbage, what does that make Java then?

Not being sold... like PeopleSoft?

[bc90021]

If it's "not being sold" like PeopleSoft was "not being sold", well, then, one would guess that they really are being sold.

Sell it!!

[grazzy]

.. and stuff it with ads.
Maybe the blog menace will go away.

I did my part, now im waiting for yours.

Re:Sell it!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Dude, Livejournal is Open Source.
It's the Linux to MT's Windows.

Except, unlike Linux, there are hot girls using LJ.

Re:Sell it!!

[erroneous]

I had assumed that the hive mind of Slashdot was now legally registered as a single entity.

Re:Sell it!!

[SlamMan]

Gimme a couple minuets, and wikipedia won't call it a blog anymore.

Re:Sell it!!

[dahamsta]

How about Minuets I and II in D minor from the French Suite #1?

Re:Sell it!!

[John Sullivan]

K.315a and BWV 841

LiveJournal Entry for Jan 5th.

[no haters]

Mood: Gossipy Listening to: Rumours by Keith Sweat You won't believe what I heard today...

Oh no!

[spellraiser]

Chris Schmidt has, among other things, this to say:

Sadly, I fear this will be the end of the LiveJournal Volunteer support system which I strongly support: I met the love of my life via doing support for LiveJournal, and it will be sad to imagine that others will not have that same oppourtunity [sic].

Dang, there go my chances of ever mating in this life. Damn you, Six Apart!

Re:Oh no!

[crschmidt]

Like you had a chance in the first place.

Oh No!

[Alan]

OH dea, I hope this doesn't mean the end of random, attention seeking girls showing their boobs off to their LJ friends to get comments! Say it ain't so!

Re:LiveJournal

[Anonymous Coward]

Come on now... don't lie on your resume:

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
Experienced programmer and designer.
Strong work ethic, ability to meet deadlines. Creative ideas and innovative attitude toward all projects.
Prudent in software engineering. Able to detect problematic code and design.
Proven experience to use good design and code knowledge to create professional results. Confident developer, excellent people skills with 4 years of professional experience in:
o Logo / Layout Design
o Site Construction
o Web Applications
o Operating Systems
o Software Engineering and Programming
o Marketing Strategies
o Independent and Team Project Management
o Networks

TECHNOLOGY SUMMARY
· C/C++ and Java
ASP, PHP, and Perl
HTML, XML, and JScript
Actionscript and VBScript
SQL and Access
Microsoft Visual C++, Basic, InterDev
Adobe Photoshop, ImageReady, Premiere
Microsoft Frontpage
Macromedia Flash, Dreamweaver
Many other software and languages known

You don't know PHP. If you did, I wouldn't have been able to find your resume and that picture of your GF and your friend.

sniff it

[Doc Ruby]

For the sarcasm impaired: this post seems to be a facaetious comment parodying the attitude of the corporate media towards blogs, which is that they're a threat to be bought out and quashed.

Nerds: one way to detect sarcasm is to notice any surprising detail in any statement, like a Slashdotter demanding more ads, and consider whether the statement in a sarcastic tone rather than "straight". Then, compare its effect as sarcasm with its straight effect, and then choose. In fact, you can usually risk responding to a surprising statement as sarcasm with less danger than risking the reverse. Sure, all this sophistication will require practice, but soon you'll have parallelized the processes enough not to miss a beat. And the cynicism that it generates will help you find an apartment outside your parents' basement.

Wow

[cavemanf16]

Slashdot is now reporting on rumors about blogs.

They might as well change the tag line to: "News for supermarket checkout lines, shit that we can neither confirm nor deny."

I find this comment totally inappropriate

[timothy]

since it comes with no supporting links.

timothy

Re:Hopefully not

[Anonymous Coward]

69 lines of perl, actually.