| mostly friends-only |
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while i have occasionally posted stuff publicly, the vast majority of my entries nowadays are friends-only. comment if you think i might want to add you. (all comments screened)
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| InsaneJournal is the 2nd biggest LJ-based site |
[11 Mar 2012|05:14pm] |
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As far as I can tell, in very late December 2011, the total number of accounts on IJ surpassed that of Blurty, making IJ the second biggest site of all of the sites that I know of that are based on LJ's codebase, behind only LJ itself.
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| State of IJ |
[12 Nov 2011|11:45pm] |
So, IJ crossed the 1 million account mark maybe 11 months or so ago, and I'd kind of noticed that, and noticed that the pace of growth here was actually slightly increasing and remaining consistently higher than the growth at Dreamwidth, but somewhere over the summer, things changed.
That is, IJ started growing a *lot* faster and substantially faster than Dreamwidth. And IJ crossed the 2 million account mark about a month ago.
Graph of IJ and Dreamwidth numbers of accounts over the past year
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| the growth of IJ and other similar-sized LJ-type sites |
[16 Feb 2010|02:58pm] |
(I don't know if this kind of thing is interesting to other people, but I certainly find it interesting to look at these numbers and graphs and whatnot.)
There appear to be only 3 LJ-type sites reporting over 100k and under 1M accounts: IJ, DeadJournal, and Dreamwidth (Blurty is slightly over 1M and LJ is over 25M). These 3 sites all report about 450k-650k accounts right now. more interesting, though, is what the graph of number of accounts over the past 8 months or so (since a little before DW's data starts) looks like.
First, note that DJ is essentially flat (they are growing, but at a much slower rate than IJ and DW) and IJ has now far-surpassed DJ to be (probably) the 3rd largest LJ-type site (behind LJ itself and Blurty).
Second, note that IJ's account total is increasing faster over time (concave up) while DW's is increasing slower over time (concave down), and IJ's growth rate (slope) is steeper than DW's throughout the timeframe. It might be that the more people that come to IJ, the greater the general interest in IJ; it might be that DW has somehow begun to saturate its potential market. Also, given how very large a number DW opened with, I have long been suspicious that their initial numbers were not real (perhaps accidentally).
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| an IJ note |
[06 Nov 2009|04:31am] |
depending on measure (that is, using the "size:accounts" measure as opposed to the "userinfo:total" measure), InsaneJournal passed DeadJournal to become the 3rd largest LiveJournal-based site around Thursday, October 8, 2009.
(At a rough estimate, IJ will pass DJ to move into the #3 spot based on the "userinfo:total" measure in about 2-3 months.)
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| can't wait!!! |
[26 Apr 2009|05:24am] |
(ad seen while surfing the web)
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[21 Mar 2009|07:38am] |
i've just started playing with lala.com--it's looking interesting in that it seems that it will give me access to a large chunk of what i've got in itunes via the web, but without having to actually upload stuff (it looks at what i supposedly own on my own computer and matches it up to stuff in its library). also, they've got really good pricing on songs both for streaming only and for mp3 downloading and they've got albums that the itunes music store and amazon mp3 store don't, like Belleruche's Turntable Soul Music.
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| 100 books meme |
[21 Dec 2008|12:54am] |
Italicize what you started but didn't finish.
Bold what you read all the way through.
Underline what you loved.
Strike what you hated.
( 100 )
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[06 Oct 2008|02:53am] |
this web site is about the only place i really pay attention to for election info:
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| lyric snippet |
[19 Jun 2008|12:14am] |
blew into town one night
and the crowd like waters parted
he headed straight toward her
and aimed to finish what he started
Grand Ole Party, “Look Out Young Son”
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[29 Apr 2008|03:19pm] |
So, about an hour ago, MoveOn.org sent out an email saying that they'd posted the finalists in the "Obama in 30 seconds" contest/campaign for rating. About half an hour after that, the site obamain30seconds.org seems to have died.
Anyone want to venture a guess as to the probability of attack versus load issue?
Edit: seems to be back up after about 20-30 minutes of down time. Also, it looked like moveon.org was down for the same time period.
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| interesting... |
[06 Jan 2008|03:19pm] |
92% Mike Gravel
92% Dennis Kucinich
85% Joe Biden
82% Chris Dodd
82% John Edwards
82% Barack Obama
79% Hillary Clinton
69% Bill Richardson
34% Rudy Giuliani
26% Ron Paul
20% John McCain
15% Mike Huckabee
15% Mitt Romney
13% Tom Tancredo
4% Fred Thompson
2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz
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| this fucking meme took me more than a fucking hour! |
[05 Jan 2008|02:33am] |
Step 1: Put your music player on shuffle.
Step 2: Post the first two lines from the first 37 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing. [i skipped tracks that didn't really have lyrics (about a dozen non-classical and about a dozen classical], of course, as well as tracks where i couldn't understand the first line(s) nor could i find the lyrics online [another dozen or so], and anything that wasn't a song [about half a dozen]]
Step 3: Strike through the songs when someone guesses both artist and track correctly.
Step 4: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING!
Step 5: If you like the game post your own.
( the lyrics )
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[24 Dec 2007|12:08am] |
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"where everything was beautiful and nothing hurt"
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| music meme |
[19 Dec 2007|12:22am] |
Open iTunes. Click the column header for “Play Count”. What are the first five songs listed?
"Stolen Car" - Beth Orton
"Barricades and Brickwalls" - Kasey Chambers
"Blue Light" - Mazzy Star
"The Truth" - Handsome Boy Modeling School
"Mad About You" - Hooverphonic
Click the column header for Last Played. What are the first 5 songs?
"Born to be Wild" - Steppenwolf
"House of the Rising Sun" - The Animals
"Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" - The Jimi Hendrix Experience
"Man's World" - Natacha Atlas
"Son's Gonna Rise" - Citizen Cope & Santana
Click Party Shuffle. What are the first 5 songs?
"I Love Myself Today" - Bif Naked
"Soak Up the Sun" - Sheryl Crow
"Elevation" - U2
"Rocket Man" - Elton John
"Drive Away (End Title)" - Thomas Newman (soundtrack from Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events)
Click the column header Year. What are the first 5 albums from 1994?
Mellow Gold (Beck)
Empire Records (soundtrack)
The Trip Hop Test Part One (various)
Live Through This (Hole)
Blue Wonder Power Milk (Hooverphonic)
Click the column header My Rating. What are the first 5 albums?
The Sopranos (soundtrack)
Back to Black (Amy Winehouse)
Dilate (Ani DiFranco)
Paris in April (April March)
Verve Unmixed 2 (various)
Finally, look at the bottom of your iTunes window. How many days of music do you have?
11
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| simple, anonymous measure of whether or not anyone gives a shit |
[02 Nov 2007|12:39am] |
it's anonymous; it doesn't track anything but the total number as far as i can tell; it's a simple click.
*HUGS* TOTAL!
give me more *HUGS*
Get hugs of your own
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| favorite lyric of the year, probably |
[25 Oct 2007|12:58am] |
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crashing, not like hips or cars, no, more like p-p-p-parties
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