This Week in Social Media

[mdlbear]

Interesting couple of articles on Ars Technica:

Nostalgia: “The Linux of social media”—How LiveJournal pioneered (then lost) blogging (h/t to wcg)

Pre-nostalgia: Tumblr’s porn ban is going about as badly as expected | Ars Technica

Another fine post from The Computer Curmudgeon (also at computer-curmudgeon.com).

Comments

[madfilkentist]

That's more than I'd ever known about the history of LJ.

[mdlbear]

The very old stuff is new to me -- I joined in mid-2002, so that second screenshot looks like what I remember from those days.