tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8903848080840259127.post8620260831585151900..comments2024-02-16T14:10:12.166+08:00Comments on Bibliophile Stalker: Essay: Blogging in the Speculative Fiction CommunityUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8903848080840259127.post-10978366411611962172008-12-11T15:50:00.000+08:002008-12-11T15:50:00.000+08:00I also came over from Jay Lake's LJ... I actually ...I also came over from Jay Lake's LJ... <BR/><BR/>I actually have a presence on a lot of sites, but I'd say I use LJ primarily for my blogging and Facebook primarily for my personal one-on-one contacts.<BR/>I do, however, have my Facebook account set up to automatically cross post all my LJ posts.<BR/><BR/>One thing I find Facebook invaluable for is keeping contact with people in other countries (I'm and American expat in China myself- so this is an important issue to me.) Many people don't blog but will join FB and leave short status update notes, post photos of where they are, etc. Also, LJ and Blogspot have both been blocked by the Chinese govt before- they're open now- so that definitely made me more Facebook-oriented.<BR/><BR/>(I also think the LJ friend-unfriend drama is overstated, btw.)Bridget Chttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00409602560063383273noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8903848080840259127.post-10436914854964070952008-12-11T06:57:00.000+08:002008-12-11T06:57:00.000+08:00Hi,nice article. My publisher advised me to start ...Hi,<BR/>nice article. My publisher advised me to start google alerts to get my work noticed. I'm hitting so many different blogs, having to create accounts all over the place. Now I have no clue how many I have, there should be less to choose from. Or I need to learn to connect them or something...<BR/><BR/>Author of G.E.N.I. Genetically Enhanced Natural Intelligence<BR/>http://www.eloquentbooks.com/G.E.N.I.htmllitlflamehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07276949653249560411noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8903848080840259127.post-34935941868341038772008-12-11T01:35:00.000+08:002008-12-11T01:35:00.000+08:00Here via Jay Lake's LJ:LiveJournal makes it easy t...Here via Jay Lake's LJ:<BR/><BR/>LiveJournal makes it easy to build community. It's also easy to add feeds from blogs outside LJ. If you have a paid account, you enter the URL in a specific field. If you don't, you ask your f-list to do it. <BR/><BR/>And the drama over reciprocal friending is overstated. It's never happened to me.<BR/><BR/>burger_eaterAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8903848080840259127.post-19536873512820285862008-12-11T01:16:00.000+08:002008-12-11T01:16:00.000+08:00I use LiveJournal primarily because it's easy to r...I use LiveJournal primarily because it's easy to read and saves time, and I don't want to spend my days doing blog-related things. <BR/><BR/>The main reason it is easy is that I can put all the blogs I read in one place. Unless bloggers have a feed that works with LJ, I don't read them. I just don't even think about it, despite having saved several in my browser as favorites. The feeds that require me to leave LJ to comment also suck up too much time.<BR/><BR/>Also, unlike every other blogging tool, LJ provides nested commenting. There's nothing as frustrating and time-consuming as searching comments to find what responded to what.<BR/><BR/>Finally, I use LJ because it's where I started, the majority of other writers I know (and non-writer friends) use it, and it works. I'm also on Facebook and Myspace, but I have yet to find them useful except as advertising tools for upcoming releases, celebrations, workshops, etc.<BR/><BR/>PS: I got here from Jay Lake's LiveJournal blog.<BR/><BR/>ChrisChris McKitterickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14480146565677403882noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8903848080840259127.post-70190930983000707782008-12-10T14:57:00.000+08:002008-12-10T14:57:00.000+08:00Happy to have been of help :-)Happy to have been of help :-)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8903848080840259127.post-41183249700341755222008-12-10T08:03:00.000+08:002008-12-10T08:03:00.000+08:00Hi S.M.D.! Long time since we last heard from you....Hi S.M.D.! Long time since we last heard from you. Glad to see that you're still reading my posts. =)Charleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02773038335190893557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8903848080840259127.post-18824833353907272122008-12-10T07:52:00.000+08:002008-12-10T07:52:00.000+08:00In my experience a vast majority of SF/F book blog...In my experience a vast majority of SF/F book bloggers, amateur writers, newly publihed writers, etc. are using Wordpress or Blogger (an equal spread, I think). The really big names in SF/F tend to be on Livejournal, but I also find most of their blogs rather boring in comparison to some of the folks on Blogger, Wordpress, or even Typepad (Scalzi is on Moveable Type I think...).<BR/><BR/>It really depends. I think the reason you see a lot of the big names using Livejournal is because LJ was the big thing back when they were hitting it big. I find Livejournal horribly limited in comparison to other platforms, and I imagine a lot of new writers who have grown up in the Interwebs world are finding much the same thing, which is why you see more of their kind in the Blogger/Wordpress community.<BR/><BR/>It's entirely possible than in another 5 years we'll see Blogger/Wordpress become the new dominant niche platform for new popular writers.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13571452656553970472noreply@blogger.com