Rumors True: Six Apart buying LJ. Don't panic.

[azurelunatic]

Brad confirms: LJ's really been sold, and he's all happy because he thinks he's as shitty at management as we think he is, and he likes their management style.

LJ's sticking around, not going to go poof. We'll get TrackBack, so woo! (for the non-technical among us: you'll get to see who's been linking to each journal entry, which rocks all kinds of socks.)

I'm cautiously happy, and I've asked a few questions on page seven or so of the growing wankfest of comments. bradfitz says he'll keep answering questions as they come in over the next couple days.

There will be a new TOS to review, and you will have to read/agree over the next few days in order to keep posting here. I'm not worried, but I am overcaffienated, which makes me hyper and jittery.

Comments

[wibbble]

> We'll get TrackBack, so woo! (for the non-technical among us: you'll get to see who's
> been linking to each journal entry, which rocks all kinds of socks.)

It's not really that impressive. You'll get to see who is putting your posts in the 'TrackBack' URL field when updating their blog/journal. It's not as clever as, say, using referrer information to determine who has left links.

[azurelunatic]

Oh, damn.

That sucks donkey rocks. Ah well. It would have been nice. Hm, I wonder if something more clever is in the works. But that's subject to referrer spamming...

[wibbble]

Nothing more clever is in the works. TrackBack is used widely across pretty much all blogging software.

(I played with it a bit when I was playing with http://publishing.edgeoflight.co.uk/ )

[crisavec.livejournal.com]

I still have some concerns about the new TOS...Whenever Lawyers get involved they tend to ALWAYS work on behalf of their side, wich would be LJ/6A, and not the users/customers.

[azurelunatic]

The part that raises my hackles is the combination of the portions that say that they reserve the right to deny you access to your content at any time, and the part that says that they have the right to sell your content back to you. I would guess that it would be used in the first case to preserve someone's journal if it were being used in a court case, and the second case, if they were to do bound prints of people's journals to sell them a la Cafe Press, so that they could point out in the TOS, "No, we don't have to give it to you for free, we can sell you this printed book of your own material because we say we can and you agreed to it", but the paranoid in me knows it could be used for bad things.

[crisavec.livejournal.com]

You caught the same bits that I did.

[azurelunatic]

Nice to know we're on the same page.