[conlang_learners] Livejournal

[Jim Henry]

2009/9/10 Eugene Oh <un.doing at gmail.com>:
> Livejournal is a great idea, IMO, though would we do that (if there are
> enough people with LJ accounts) in conjunction with or to override the
> mailing lists that have been put forth to Sai?

I suspect that the community is liable to be small enough that
splitting it up into one group that's mainly conversing on the mailing
list and another that's mainly conversing on LiveJournal would be
injurious.

Also, I reckon all of us know how to use a mailing list, but not all
of us have LiveJournal accounts and know how to post there.

What exactly are the advantages of LiveJournal over a mailing list for
a project like this?

> 2009/9/10 Rachael Amarant <amarrach at hotmail.com>
>>The site is particularly useful because we can post as often
>> as we like and as long as we like.

True of a conlang.org mailing list too.

>>We can also include pictures and add tags
>> to posts which means that we can easilly find older posts which are stored

That could be useful, though we could also store pictures on
FrathWiki, where the MediaWiki software would probably be more useful
long-term for organizing a large amount of comments on Kēlen and texts
in Kēlen than a LiveJournal community with tags on posts.

>> in an archive. In addition to the above we can also add various links to
>> other sites of interest.

You can put links in plain-text email to a mailing list and most email
clients will allow the reader to click on it.

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Jim Henry
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