Should I split up my journal?

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GustavoLacerda (11:59:54 PM): I'm going to experiment with splitting up my journal into 3 or 4 journals.
lauraelgin (12:00:35 AM): for different ppl to read?
GustavoLacerda (12:00:41 AM): My current readers can either friend them all, or only the parts they like.
lauraelgin (12:00:50 AM): or for different subject matter that everyone can still read?
GustavoLacerda (12:01:10 AM): it's not about privacy
GustavoLacerda (12:01:22 AM): different subjects
lauraelgin (12:01:54 AM): where is the "invite a friend" link?
GustavoLacerda (12:01:55 AM): I intend to have a music journal, a journal about philosophish ideas, a journal about my geeky researches
lauraelgin (12:02:12 AM): ah. but don't you think ppl only read what they want to now anyways?
GustavoLacerda (12:02:34 AM): maybe
GustavoLacerda (12:03:05 AM): maybe they feel spammed when I post 3 pages about the bluegrass festival.
lauraelgin (12:04:09 AM): heheheh. i usually skim those. i think it's cool how you're getting so into music.
GustavoLacerda (12:04:46 AM): I guess I could learn to use LJ-cut more often


If I split them up, you can friend all my them, or only the ones you like. I wanted a better solution for "selective reading", but the folks at LJ_dev haven't caught up with this need.

What do you think?

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Comments

The Magic of LiveJournal for Intentional Personal IT

[seattlesque.livejournal.com]

Whoa. Something strange is going on because it seems to me that your LiveJournal is growing into the past. At first, it was only a few entries in 2004. Now it stretches back to entries as old as 1998. Very, very weird. It is as if there's some kind of dynamic emergence. Are you a digital lifeform, uploading yourself into a digital archive? Hmmm...or am *I*? Next will I get to see photos of you when you were a baby closed-captioned with "whoa, I'm being born! what is happening!" :)

[False dichotomies of digital/nondigital aside, whatever you are...please send an email to the account brian aht phred dawt org with the subject line V*I//*S*I*//*O*N*/**//A*R*/*Y (sans stars & stripes) at your earliest convenience, and I will figure out a way to correspond with you more directly, because you keep touching on subjects that I like very much but it seems like our communication channel goes dead after I ask you questions. It's all that darn chaos noise that filters cross-time communication.]

Someone recently told me they had a dream that occurred entirely in LiveJournal communication. They thought this was a sign that they were spending too much time on the computer and were going crazy. I told them that maybe it is like when your visual cortex speeds up so you watch TV and see the individual frames. Maybe all our interactions are digital conversations in a fluid and eternally-revisable medium, and it is only a mental analogue of the phi phenomenon that makes it seem like we're ever NOT in LiveJournal.

Maybe in the future, all websites are just LiveJournal being rendered in various states of crippleware...the authors are using the LiveJournal interface to edit with the MAKE IT CRAPPY plug-in to send it to a dot.com so that the uninitiated think they're laboriously hand-coding all that bad UI. Like in the movie Demolition Man where Sylvester Stallone is brought out of cryogenics to find out that every restaurant is Taco Bell...every website is LiveJournal! (It is all Xanadu after all, Ted Nelson has been lobbying Kubla Khan to make it a finite stately pleasure-dome.)

This idea about making multiple journals to host your various ideas is a good way to get category features. I've thought about doing it for things like my comic digests. When you combine it with the memories list, it's fairly effective. My biggest headache is to decide whether to make a journal a community or not. It seems most journals should be communities, since you have access control to say it is a community of one member and you can open it up later. But there is a problem, you cannot back-date entries in communities (yet) so when I was doing tricks like this to put entries on the same day:

http://www.livejournal.com/community/metaeducation/920.html

...it had to be from my personal account (seattlesque) and not a community (metaeducation). Tricky stuff, the art of limitation is intrinsic to design...they say also that rules are only useful because they tell you what your opponent won't do! :)