I've updated my blog.

[veek]

This one.

Anything worthy of posting, I'll be posting there from now on. Posts here will appear but rarely. I realize this will be inconvenient for some (all?) of my LJ-hound friends, but as I've mentioned before, I am not particularly enamored of the social dynamic potentially (!) created by LiveJournal. I don't like that friends-lists cannot be hidden, and that it's potentially hurtful to someone if I don't list them as "friend". I don't like worrying over whether to lock my posts, and wanting to create a different custom group for every locked post I do make. If there's private info I want to share, I'll share it individually. I like hosting my blog on my own (host's) server space. Et cetera.

I know there's a way to cross-post private bloggage to LJ, but don't really have time to figure it out. I think there's a way to make it an RSS feed, but again won't bother with that. If you'd like to read what I post on there, please bookmark it. If not, I promise to not be offended.

(Note: this is not an "I hate LiveJournal" post. I actually quite like it. I just want to have my own thing. And possibly cut down on feeling obligated to read my "friends" page.)

Comments

[valancy17.livejournal.com]

I've always found it off-putting that people might have hurt feelings from being removed from my "friends" list, too. Good for you!

[fishfoo.livejournal.com]

I've recently been thinking about doing the same thing.

You're using MT, so an XML feed (http://www.wordsend.org/log/index.xml) is created by default. It's easy to make an lj RSS feed account for that feed, if you're interested. (This is more or less what I'd end up doing, if I were to do an off-lj blog.)

In my case...

[firespiral.livejournal.com]

I find that "friending" communities is helpful. I get the journals of people who have similar interests delivered to me in one place, without having to "friend" specific people. I usually scan past those entries that are not of interest to me. I also bookmark LJ journals of people who I want to look in on from time to time, but not see everyday.

This works especially well with people with whom I have a bad history, or exes, or exes of exes etc...

Comment on your new blog.

[westernactor.livejournal.com]

Hey, I like it and don't have a problem with your leaving LiveJournal. It's not for everyone. And I'm not sure I was ever hurt you never added me to your friends list, if you were wondering. :)
But regarding the new blog, it doesn't seem like wide displays very much. I know nothing about Movable Type, but is that common? Or is there a way to make the text wrap to the window? If you're going for something specific, that's fine, but I thought I'd mention it in case you hand't noticed it.

[tablesaw]

What about the hyperlit blog?

[nothings.livejournal.com]

I found this part of your explanation a bit confusing:

I don't like that friends-lists cannot be hidden, and that it's potentially hurtful to someone if I don't list them as "friend". I don't like worrying over whether to lock my posts, and wanting to create a different custom group for every locked post I do make. If there's private info I want to share, I'll share it individually.

Nothing about LJ obliges you to try to lock posts to various friends groups. You can just as easily make all-public posts to LJ as all-public posts to your own blog (which is what you appear to be saying you'll do).

I don't like that friends-lists cannot be hidden, and that it's potentially hurtful to someone if I don't list them as "friend".

I'm not sure how moving your journal off LJ and "cutting down feeling obligated to read my 'friends' page" is going to solve this problem at all, if the psychodrama is about people wanting to be on your friends list for the sake of you reading them. (If the psychodrama is them wanting to be on your list because of locked posts, then you just tell them "I don't have any locked posts".)

I'm only down on this because, invariably, I don't bother reading people's off-LJ journals. Not that bookmarking and reading a journal separately is that hard; but 20 of them is that hard, and I'm already reading around 95 in LJ.

An experiment: come back in two or four weeks and tell us how you've been going about reading the LJ journals that you did want to read--are you reading them via your friends page after all, or are you reading them one at a time, manually, with bookmarks? (The latter being what you're asking us to do.)

[zrblm.livejournal.com]

Hrm. This may finally motivate me to install one of those RSS aggregator thingies.

Hello!

[hermesbrain.livejournal.com]

I initially stumbled onto your journal in reference to a thread in _sunyata's journal with regard to your culinary expertise. After poking around a little, read your review of Espen Aarseth's Cybertext (which it inspired me to order). I concluded a) that you were an intelligent, skilled writer, and b) that aside from having interesting friends, we share a mutual interest in computing, linguistics and cognition, among other things. So I thought I'd add both you and your RSS feed, and introduce myself. Don't feel obligated to add me back if you don't care to, just wanted to say hello. :-) Nice meeting you.

-Brian