Some things that are becoming clear. . . .

Livejournal.ru is a completely different beast than Livejournal.com. Socially, demographically, culturally, growth potential -- they have nothing in common.

Right now, most young'ns in the Western world are using MySpace and Facebook and the like -- LiveJournal is not really part of the teener crowd so much. Who are we? We're Usenet exiles, science fiction writers, fanficcers, roleplayers. We skew older, and geekier than the general population. An active livejournal.com user is more likely to be a geek, be a pagan, be some other form of "weird".

"Normal people" who blog will be using Blogger or some other specific blogging software. "Normal people" who do social networks will be using MySpace, Facebook, or one of the other dedicated services. We folks on LiveJournal are doing a little of both on the same service.

But livejournal.ru is different. It's mainstream, it's bigger than MySpace and Facebook combined in Russia -- and it's growing. LiveJournal.com is shrinking. To me, that's one of the biggest take-away messages from chipotle post here. Look at that chart. Active users are fewer, while cob-webpages are skyrocketing -- and LJ pays for those.

And, as he points out, the growth is in livejournal.ru.

Is it technically and economically feasible to separate them? SUP paid $30M for LiveJournal -- because it's worth that in Russia. It's not worth anything like that in the West.

Schpeil 2008

The 2008, Which is to say, the
5768, Purim Schpeil by the
Students of Temple B'Nai
Brith in Somerville,
Massachusetts

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Stuff that's going on today.

Let's see. There's a production of Twelfth Night at MIT, which I'd like to see. It's the Boston Burlesque Expo main event show tonight. A friend is holding a Green Liqueur and Liquor party. I'd like to get together with temima. And there's at least one other event which I'm forgetting about.

I can't do ALL of these things. . . how come all the cool things happen at once?