blamebrampton's post and furiosity's comment on the news post sum up my thoughts pretty nicely. Though since its possible to track visitors with lj stats and friending is never private, I guess the only thing left was being able to know who said what where and maximizing cross-posting potential to include comments as well (which would be aimed primarily at social network users?).
Still, LJ as usual manages to implement new policies without really considering its userbase >_>
Anyway, since the flist is currently flooded with DNW posts thanks to the latest bout of LJ induced rage, its probably as good a time as any to post some links to random shiny stuff on the web that caught my eye over the summer:
General Shiny...
- Dante's Internet: Where will you be? - I think we all have our own special place XD Some of us might even be able to book time share locations on the upper rings every few millenia mwhahaha
- A friendly picto-guide to the perennial question: Can We Date?
- The new Sharpie liquid PENCIL <3
- How Not To Be An Asshole On the Internet: A Guide For Professional Writers (and other people)
- Snake Oil: infographic showing which supplements are more likely to actually be useful
- If you can't download Calibre, you can convert books online using 2Epub.com (formats include epub, lit, lrf and mobi - the latter of which works for Kindle users)
- Budgeting: A Visual Guide to How Small Cutbacks Lead to Great Savings
- Organize Your Life with Spring Pad - I like this particularly for the way To Do lists are implemented and the way we can save recipes, books etc
- What Fantasy Series is Underrated? - seems promising for hidden gems :D
- My favorite gay!poster this year is an ad for Virgin Mobile which I spied at the bus stop while grocery shopping. elisa_rolle also has a gay commercial tag that is totally made of win (and slashy goodness) and a tag for man candy too.
- Yes, I'm one of those adults that read YA novels
- I found this older article on used books and ebooks pretty interesting, particularly the latter half focussing on author exposure and ebook downloads.
- Ebooks top hardcovers at amazon \o/
Software...
- A great little firefox extensions post by _jems_
- If the iPad is out of your price range or doesn't fit your needs, check out these alternatives
- Lifehacker pointed out imagegrab for screencaps and ted notepad for text editing
- Comic book readers to try someday: comicrack and comical
- Easy renaming of video files: TVRename and The Renamer
- Essential Android apps
Useful Someday...
- Cottonstrips for watering plants - when on vacation!
- Low effort cooking - omg, the rice cooker is a miracle tool *_*
- A good guide to help with moving to a new home
- Online learning resources are getting better
