Well, my wife came home announcing she had a LiveJournal. That was pretty much all I needed to see that if I was ever going to converse with the rest of the group, I’d need to jump on board the bandwagon as well. Just remember folks, this is how Microsoft sucked us all in; the next step in the evil plot, after giving away a free token, is to entice people other people to join, then when critical mass is hit, revoke the free token. Poof. Captive community.
I still intend on maintaining livejournal.wwco.com, but more as a migration project.
You guys can just look at this as me caving into social peer pressure, with the added benefit that I no longer have to be anonymous to you.
UPDATE (6-Feb-2006): I did the LiveJournal thing on our servers, willing to pass out free full-featured accounts to anyone that wanted them. Turns out that was an interesting social experiment… no one, save Danny, wanted one. It turns out that LiveJournal has an established audience, and the authors there count on the perception that there will be voyers. So, in fact, it was not about having an online diary after all. The biggest hurdle was migrating content from the official LiveJournal site to the local one, a feature that was added a number of years later. Since people were willing to pay (and for less features) to use an existing service, I’ve abandoned the project. I’ve just finished importing my own LiveJournal entries into my blog, which seems to provide a much richer environment.