Live Journal – Berkman Thursdays – May 19

This Thursday, May 19 Josh Ain will speak on, Livejournal: Not just for teenaged girls anymore. As Lisa Williams mentioned, “Livejournal has a reputation as a hotbed for irrelevant material. A ‘typical’ Livejournal blogger is typecast as someone who blogs about trivial things: the teenage blog, or the cat blog. Yet Livejournal has been immensely successful within its chosen niche. Why are Livejournal users the AOL users of the new era? Is this reputation deserved? What technology does Livejournal possess that caters to and attracts these users?”

In this meeting Josh will examine the Livejournal blogging/aggregation platform with a specific focus on its success as a social networking tool. The group will spend about fifteen minutes on a presentation, and hear from a couple hardcore Livejournal users from within our group. Then we’ll open up the floor to discussion.

Details: Berkman Thursday Bloggers’ Meeting Berkman Center for Internet and Society Cambridge, MA
Date: Thursday, May 19 7PM
Cost: none We often go for dinner afterward which is Dutch Treat.
Agendas and Directions: Berkman Thursday Meeting Info
Participate remotely? Yes!
To listen: (only during meeting).
To ask questions: Meeting IRC chatroom. Directions: Berkman Thursday Weblog Meeting IRC chat
Audio archives: We attempt to archive audio of meetings so you can listen after the fact. Details at the group’s weblog above.

Comments

[Rup3rt]

I understand where you are coming from but.... The user statistics at LiveJournal contradict your statement. The typical user is very probably female and extremely likely to be a teenager.

http://www.livejournal.com/stats.bml

They are also the CIOs of the future!

[Bill Ives]

You raise a very good point and I made one change in the description. In fact, I recently learned through the blog for upcoming BlogHer that women represent roughly half of all bloggers. A Perseus Development Corp. survey (12.04) reported 56 percent of blogs are created by women. A Pew Internet survey (1.05) reported that 43 percent of bloggers are women. This is a good thing and hopefully the teenager diaries by both boys and girls will lead to better and more open online communication as they grow older. .