JB's Miscellaneous Ramblings

thanks to ivorjawa, I too can post recursively horrible grainy pictures straight from my phone directly to the interweb.

or I can do it this way. Hm. Which is better - lj direct or via flickr?

I've developed SOME taste in shwag... I just turned down a jagermeister thong.

... or at least the installations of such that I've come across...

With LJ, comments are a (more-or-less) useful way to have a conversation... they're threaded, you can (when things are working) get notifications of new replies to comments you've left, and so on.

With the other blogs that I've come across - MT, whatever powers blogspot (Blogger and Haloscan, it seems), and others - leaving a comment and reading comments are almost exactly the same as each other - a small (too small) window pops up with all the comments that've already been left, all left justified, one after the other, no indication of who's replying to who. When you want to leave a comment, most require an email address. Do they DO anything with this information? No. Do they send you mail saying "someone's left a new comment [they can't say "in reply to something you said", as there's no threading] on a post you showed enough interest in to contribute a comment to"? No.

In short, is there any way to see if someone's replied to (or near) you? No.

Pain in the ass crapular design.

LJ has its issues, yes. For the reasons above, though, it continues to be MUCH more usable for me.

It's also free and open-source... I gather some of the others are moving away from that?

So, LJ has a 'user'/account called status - status.

If you all friended this account, you'd have seen this post and you'd have felt no need to post about the back comments that were coming in to your mailbox over the last day or so.

There are many other useful things that you can learn by reading status.

I recommend it very highly.

So, I understand why you would want to link ( <lj-user=foo>) to a user if you were discussing something related to them, but why do folks feel it's necessary to do it every time they say someone else's name in the course of a post? I might even be able to understand it if you did it the 1st time, but then why every time thereafter in the same post?

So..many of you do it. Why?