Pamela Anderson to promote Livejournal

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I am new here and since I started on LJ I noticed that most journals are either dead or friends only. And most posts in the Top are community posts. I also noticed that there are a lot of open journals in Russian here. I had a look at the Russian LJ Top 15 and translated it via Google Translate out of curiosity, sharing the translation below.

There is only one community post in the Russian top (no 9). There is nothing fanfic related in the top 50 there. There are a lot of comments and there seem to be long discussions in the comments. The Russians seem to be not only more active and open on LJ but also seem to use it differently.

Is it true? Why? Was it always like this?

And yeah, about Pamela Anderson. As much as I could understand from post no 8, she will be promoting some new video content feature for LJ users in Russia I think.

Russian Top LJ (Google Translated)

1. Miracles after the demolition !
Demolition of trade pavilions has given us a miracle ! On Wednesday at the station " Novoslobodskaya " for a few hours it was organized ground move with the traffic lights across the street Dolgorukovskaya. It is incredibly good news: do not be the demolition, no one would ever put a new light and would not draw a new zebra. 297 comments

2. Sex- ONLY
About a death trap for men - frendzone I wrote. Let us now about the death trap for women - sex ONLY. Why is this black spot just for women? Very often, women write "he proposes sex without commitment" and they do not understand why you need to give. 34 comments

3. England and Russia: According to the law will live or concepts?
I really liked the post Tatyana Solovyova on Facebook. Since LiveJournal and Facebook rarely intersect, to quote it here. Tatiana has long lived in London, and her present buzz about the demolition of unauthorized construction - looks like a wild cry of people who are not accustomed to live in a civilized world. 68 comments

4. Again required a woman's hand
When I think Skrynnik, it was the Minister of Agriculture, my first association - BUSH's LEGS. When they started in mad quantities imported into Russia, and ... no, no, I'm not even on their questionable quality! - And virtually destroyed the country's poultry industry, which could not in the complex ...71 comments

5. False marital happiness in the 90s
Yesterday was taking his sister with training and has witnessed a disgusting scene. From rocking the neighborhood came out little man, judging by his gait, good legs shook. He rushes to intercept the lady and such a cry breaks my ears in the first seconds refuse to distinguish between sounds. The reason for hysteria ...202 comments

6. What happens if you send in a weightless flight attendant ?!
What happens if I cancel the gravity ?! We live in a world of conventions, high speeds, and the gray of everyday life. Maybe gravity - just a habit ?! We are accustomed to the 3D world, special effects and computer graphics. We were so difficult to surprise some visuals, but what you see today - definitely ...58 comments

7. Cannabis
How snowfall helps police in Europe to seek clandestine cannabis producers? Comments concealed answer tomorrow upd subtleties of cannabis cultivation even know all the answers to the previous puzzle All puzzles in the journal can be found on the tag puzzle 483 comments

8. Pamela Anderson and Livejournal: what was it?
I love sex symbols. Even if they are - former. Pamela Anderson - the undisputed sex symbol. Sex-symbol does not happen. In Russia, few people watching "Baywatch", but the red-Piece Swimsuit traveling on the waves Pam know everything. 124 comments

9. Episode reckless femininity
How often we hear that we are responsible for what myself dressed: whether it is fitting dress or a stunning heels. Women, they say, almost always to blame for their misfortunes: first outfit, and only then think. It is no coincidence sandals high heels look to me ...28 comments

10. But the neighbor - worse!
Whatever dirt and not ruin our people lived, it warms the soul that there are places where still dirtier and destruction. It is faith in the fact that his neighbor is even worse, allowing a blind eye to the garbage under his window. Neighbor can be anyone, but now it's about Ukraine. Yesterday… 201 comments

11. A look at Mars from Mars Express
In a Mars orbit thirteenth year continues its work the European Mars Express satellite. This product was launched in cooperation with the Russian Space Agency - gave our rocket and put some scientific instruments and satellite built the European Space Agency. Mars Express flying by ... 13 comments

12. Why give birth in Russia is not just scary, and very scary ....
Why bomzhihi, drunkards, outcasts give birth in batches, and we are normal, healthy and educated women who do not want to? The truth is bitter. Even now, in my life everything is good, the second I'm not going to give birth under any pretext. And it is this: since the two cherished strips ...146 comments

13. What Danelia disliked Jean-Paul Belmondo
For the filming of the movie "Tears dripped" needed a car "Zaporozhets". This car stopped by the hero in a puddle and fell into the pit. The crew decided to buy a car at a thrift store, but after taking lead in order and surrender back. They were told that this "Mosfilm" director must ...54 comments

14. PR on other people's misfortunes
Is it possible to "put pressure on the mold" and make political points on the mountain the people once, literally, put up with things in the cold. Especially when he was directly involved in the organization of this lawlessness. Today, sitting in a comfortable chair by the fireplace in the role of ...36 comments

15. Who has earned on the squatter
With regard to the demolition of illegal buildings more and more interesting facts are revealed. The fact of the first. Total owners demolished the entire property - 12 people. That is a dozen. Well, not bloody. The 13th in the case is not allowed. Why share? It is interesting, is not it? Basically, it is the representatives of the diasporas. 186 comments

Comments

[beautesauvage13.livejournal.com]

I have been using lj since 2003 and it's been only recently that it's gone more Facebook - ish in a sense. With things like top posts ect.  Once upon a time lj was more of a online diary that you shared with a few friends or engaged in role playing games with people.  The Russian thing you mentioned is new too.  Someone I have on my friends list once said that lj was owned by Russians.  Not sure how true that is. 

Athena

[topum.livejournal.com]

Yes, I think they bought it indeed.
So without the top and mostly in friends only mode how did you find and meet people here? How can I find interesting journals to read here as a newbie?
I do not understand how the journal ranking works here. I opened the 'top journal of the day' yesterday and the owner has never written in it and keeps it just for reading.

[beautesauvage13.livejournal.com]

Most of my friends on my lj I met on online role play forums.  Most were centered around Anne Rice and her vampires.  Members had LJs we would add eachother.  There is I think on lj a group lj you can join to meet other lj people.  I forget the name of it. 

Athena

[topum.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I learned a lot about LJ world today.

[prorsus.livejournal.com]

The Russians complain that LJ is dying these days a lot though.

[topum.livejournal.com]

I asked one of them via pm today actually. He said that the problem was not that it was dying but that it was getting commercialised. Apparently it is getting more and more about advertising and paid content for top journal owners there. ((

[prorsus.livejournal.com]

That's true. And because of that many interesting Russian bloggers left LJ and many stopped reading.

[topum.livejournal.com]

It looks like there are still a lot of them there. Writing huge illustrated posts, updating every day, longest comments threads I have ever seen.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I've been around since 2004. LJ used to be a lot livelier back then. I carry on because it's my home on the Net, because I like how it allows you to blog at any length and because it's interactive.

Most of the people who were my friends when I started have gone now and some have died. But there's still who are writing interesting things and posting good pictures.

[topum.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I cannot imagine it has always been like this, it does feel a bit in decline to a newcomer like me. But it is getting better as I find more people to read.
I came here for exactly the same reasons that keep you here.

[mallorys-camera.livejournal.com]

The commercialization is part of a relatively new monetization strategy. The Russian Overlords want to emphasize communities. Probably because they get higher rates on ads placed on community sites -- more potential clicks etc.

LJ did used to be a lot livelier and edgier. Personally, I think the deal is that it is a journaling site rather than a blogging site, and there is a difference between keeping a journal and keeping a blog. For one thing, if you go to the trouble to keep a blog, you're probably promoting something and you'd prefer the URL to reflect your name rather than "livejournal."

I think LJ works best if you like to write, you'd write anyway, and you don't really give a fuck if anyone reads what you're writing here or not. Which is a run-on sentence that can be deconstructed to mean, "Hey! It works for me!" :-)

I saw that you somehow stumbled across my LJ. Feel free to friend me if you like. Sometimes I even write about interesting things. :-)

[topum.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Yes, I liked your journal. Added you.

[slobberpuppy.livejournal.com]

LJ was sold to a Russian company many moons ago... I'm assuming there were plenty of Russian users before then tho, since it wouldn't make much sense for a Russian company to buy otherwise.

[topum.livejournal.com]

You are right the Russians bought it in 2006 I just read. And yes, the sale was triggered by its overwhelming popularity among the Russians apparently.

[zzvisual.livejournal.com]

I guess they bought it to provide the control over many opposition bloggers by moving the service to the Russian judicial field. Indeed, after buying it, many journals were suspended and some prominent bloggers left LJ (having fear of application the Russian laws to already written).

[topum.livejournal.com]

Did it also affect non-Russian bloggers or they were only after Russian opposition voices?

[zzvisual.livejournal.com]

I don't think they will send a subpoena anyone abroad :) . They even could not practically prosecute the Russian bloggers who do not disclose their personality. There is a real danger only if you have 10 000 friends (i.e. about 100 000 readers) , write under the real name and explicitly call for a revolution, killing the Queen (or smth. like that). So you are right: the modern day Russian censorship appears in practice much smoother than many Western ones.

[prorsus.livejournal.com]

'What happens if you send in a weightless flight attendant ?!' LOL

[(Anonymous)]

The translation rocks.

[topum.livejournal.com]

I had a laugh too.

[zzvisual.livejournal.com]

The reason why LJ is so popular is Russia is historical. 1) It was one of the first blog platforms used there . 2) It was US-based and hence provided a comparative freedom of speech (somewhat very actual in the post-soviet Russia with its 282 article of the criminal codex; you could not imagine what happened here in the mid 2000-th - even revolution/riots were conspired there, there were posts exceeding 10 000 comments - the limit of LJ :) ). 2) Finally it has some unique features like LJ communities, threading comments - somewhat unavailable with many other services and social networks. After reaching its popularity in 2000-th and accumulating the top Russian bloggers, the new ones will always stuck to it...

[zzvisual.livejournal.com]

PS In spite of the unfavorable situation with the freedom of speech (which is actually not worse than that of FB).

[topum.livejournal.com]

I guess it is hard to be worse than FB in this respect.

[zzvisual.livejournal.com]

yes, that's the irony of time

[topum.livejournal.com]

Very interesting. Thank you.

[zzvisual.livejournal.com]

You are welcome. My only suggestion, if you want to promote your blog faster check the ranks of the alternative blog platforms (having the communities/forums - it's is very important for promotion) in English-speaking Internet (reddit ?). As I said, it is very good to have LJ in Russian Internet but I am not sure in this for the English-speaking one. Another alternative to promote your LJ blog is to already have an own popular website and use LJ as a compliment.

[lutik-sun.livejournal.com]

You suprised me :) Such a serious research in Russian LJ :)
Well it's true, LJ is dying as a diary platform, because of ads, because it was smth new, even smeone's diary was interesting first... Now peple stop writing and thinking, they repost other people's posts in FB and don't write smth of their own :)

Meanwhile communities are alive :) And LJ will stay alive unless the last community is closed :)

Sorry if my Englich is not good, it's not native :)

[topum.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I hope that LJ is not dying but is just transforming and developing into something new and different. Like everything has to sooner or later.
Your English is good by the way.

[lutik-sun.livejournal.com]

Thank you :)