davidfcooper

Live Journal combines blogging with social networking and as such occupies its own niche. As a blogging platform it's not as nimble as blogspot, wordpress, or Tumblr, and Facebook is clearly state of the art for pure social networking. I hope it doesn't fall between those two stools. If, however, it cannot continue independently, rather than folding and disappearing the lesser evil would be being acquired by a more sophisticated blogging platform that aspires to improve its social networking function by importing an existing community of loyal users. Alternatively, and less desirable, it could become a blogging application on Myspace or Facebook.

Not only are we told to anticipate The End of Books but now we hear that Blogs are Dead. But most Twitter users continue to blog in long form and link to their blog posts in their tweets: thanks to friendfeed links to my LJ posts appear as tweets.