Updates to Omniture on LiveJournal

We’re making a change to the way we've been gathering statistics on LiveJournal and wanted to let you know the plan and details in advance. Back in January, we announced that we'd start using Omniture SiteCatalyst as the system that lets us dig deeper into how members and visitors use LiveJournal. Back then, we had only used Omniture's tracking on the site-schemed pages of LiveJournal (those are the ones with the LJ menus and header, not the ones that follow your journal's style). With this... read more

Cross-posted from the Red Umbrella . @ tRU: Read | Comment Crossposted here for obvious reasons… Just a conglomeration of posts/comments/articles I’ve come across as the drama has unfolded. (And yes, it is drama, but no, it is not silly.) Just a really really sloppy draft for now, will clean up (and possibly update) later. Comms of interest: no_lj_ads ljspeaks Posts of interest: Features vs. Ads Poll (serenadesha) Nosik Interview Audio (thevelvetsun) Nostalgia: LiveJournal’s...

Interesting.  Found a link to this sometime yesterday.  Nothing they've mentioned seems particularly amoral, but yeah. *opts-out* Passing on the link if anyone else was interested: http://community.livejournal.com/lj_biz/242602.html

x-posted: one_man_riot ; queer_punks ; alternatrans So...Livejournal has been bought by a Russian company called SUP that allegedly(?) has ties to former KGB people. LJ has banned some interests by removing the ability to search them, including: fags faggots fag hags ( girlfags ) girlfags ( girlfags ) transfags *fag/s Go here to see what else they've banned so far.. http://elfwreck.livejournal.com/228345.html?thread=2006265#t2006265 More LJ sketchiness...

LJ is offering random-selection data mining for their users. The LJ announcement post is here along with simple directions on how to exclude yourself from this practice. Thought I'd put this up in case anyone else wasn't aware, though knowing my f-list, I'm miles behind the times.

x-posted: one_man_riot ; queer_punks ; alternatrans So...Livejournal has been bought by a Russian company called SUP that allegedly(?) has ties to former KGB people. LJ has banned some interests by removing the ability to search them, including: fags faggots fag hags ( girlfags ) girlfags ( girlfags ) transfags *fag/s Go here to see what else they've banned so far.. http://elfwreck.livejournal.com/228345.html?thread=2006265#t2006265 More LJ sketchiness...