What Cat said (which I seem to be saying a lot . . .)

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yuki_onna on the decline of LJ, and the fact that the first step in getting back to the “glory days” is to pony up and be interesting.

I can’t promise 30 straight days of engaging blogging — in fact, since I’ll probably be sans Internet for a few days in mid-July, it’s quite impossible — but comment here and tell me some topic you’d be interested in seeing me write about, and I’ll see what I can do. Writing is of course fair game for requests, but so is anything else: entertainment, politics, my hobbies, anything where you have reason to think I could say something substantive about it.

The whole reason I’m not interested in Twitter and Facebook is that I prefer content-full posts of moderate length to brief snippets of humour or what have you. Anything I can do to encourage that over here, in my main Internet home, is worth a try.

0 Responses to “What Cat said (which I seem to be saying a lot . . .)”

  1. anghara

    The whole reason I’m not interested in Twitter and Facebook is that I prefer content-full posts of moderate length to brief snippets of humour or what have you. Anything I can do to encourage that over here, in my main Internet home, is worth a try.

    And amen.

    I would love to see an essay about how your journey through the history of England has affected you. What have you learned that you never knew you never knew, as it were? What have you “always known”, but found out was wrong?

    I am fascinated by the Onyx Court books and I want (selfishly) all I can get about them…

    • Marie Brennan

      Heh. I’ll see if I can do a coherent post on that; it’s wrestling the giant mass of stuff into some kind of communicable shape that’s the real problem.

  2. janni

    Not clear to me lj is dying, only that on a regular basis everyone worries it is. 🙂

    My lj is still an interesting place with interesting posts, anyway …

    • Marie Brennan

      “Dying” is a dramatic way to put it, but I know that many of the people I friended because they were friends of mine IRL have wandered away, and I periodically add new people to the writer/professional side of my flist because activity has fallen off. To some extent that’s natural entropy (attrition will always happen), but it does seem to me that the number of people posting frequently, with material of substance, has declined over time. There’s certainly nothing to be lost by encouraging more activity, and I like that this one takes the form of “I will do more to be interesting” rather than demanding that other people do it for you.

      • janni

        There’s certainly nothing to be lost by encouraging more activity, and I like that this one takes the form of “I will do more to be interesting” rather than demanding that other people do it for you

        Definitely, about that.

        (Yes, I am way behind on my replies! :-))

    • green_knight

      It’s not dieing as such, maybe, but most of my posts used to get two or three comments, and now frequently get none; a busy post would get twenty to thirty comments, and now frequently gets ten or twelve, and I’d start my day by going to at least ?skip=50 if not 100, and now I can often come back after 8hrs away from LJ and am still on the same page.

      Not dieling, just fading away, and I’m including LJ/DW as one entity. (I *like* DW, but I participate in LJ quite happily, it’s not the users I have a problem with.)

      • Marie Brennan

        I find that’s true, too; comment activity has died off quite noticeably.

        • green_knight

          I’m glad I noticed it on other people’s threads first, because otherwise it would make me really anxious (and maybe cause some people to believe they’re not interesting and that nobody reads it anyway and why bother posting?)

          I know there have been days when I thought ‘do I make this post, I will only be talking to myself again’ – mostly, I post anyway, but it’s… a lot less fun.

  3. shartyrant

    Posting about anything just at least maybe more than once a month seems to work best. A lot of people just like to lurk and I seem to have a lot of people who lurk OFF of livejournal and still come to my blog (which is weird). I am on both Twitter and Facebook (loathe the first to use I admit freely) and use Facebook more for offline friends. The offline friends rarely if ever come to the blog so it sort of balances out. Same with the Twitter. I post a link there to my blog if I want them to come see.

    As for what I would like to see here is reviews of anything of interest to you whether it is books, movies, folklore tales you encounter or just about your trips or travels. More books snippets are always a plus (as I am greedy that way). Anything about writing works too.

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