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

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[JavaLord]

Blogging sucks. I'd rather code in java all day. The majority of Blogs are digital garbage.

Great

[Anonymous Coward]

Rumors.

Mac rumors. Blog rumors.

What next? SlashDOT rumors on /.

Re:Great

[Anonymous Coward]

Reputable sources say that GNAA is moving to buy a majority stake in VA, parent of OSTG, parent of slashdot. What motives they might have for this is unclear, however Johnson Long, a source who claims he's butt buddies with the leader of the GNAA, has indicated that the GNAA may be replacing the OSTG banner across the top of the page with random quotes from their anthem, Gay Niggers From Outer Space.

Re:LiveJournal

[stupidfoo]

I agree. Your web site consisting of

#!/usr/local/bin/php
<?
$pageTitle = "homepage";
header('location:sircol/index.php');
exit();
//echo("Redirecting to Sircol page...");

?>
<?include_once("includes/html_in clude_top.php")?>
<!--include_once("stats/stats.p hp")?-->
This is oskard's website. Still being constructed.
<?include_once("includes/html_includ e_bottom.php")?>

is much much better! :p

And don't get me started about this page: http://users.wpi.edu/~oskard/sircol/index.php

It's hot! (you might have a server problem, btw)

Re:LJ. bleah

[Twanfox]

I've actually had that happen. An ex-roommate wound up making some commentary about the manner in which we parted ways, and all his friends commented about how bad I must've been and how sorry they were that he had to live with me. Only thing is that while I admit I was not the best roommate, neither was he and wound up doing much the same as I did. That just never came out as valid since once we parted ways, he managed to be immaculate about his affairs.

Took a few years just to sort out the animosity between us to be on speaking terms all because of that incident.

Re:LiveJournal

[oskard]

It wasn't supposed to be insightful, just my opinion. I don't enjoy reading them, I don't like them

No Siht. look what happened here

[Anonymous Coward]

No Shit. Look what happened here when this was bought by the shirts -- more annoying ads than you can throw a lifted skirt at.