New public journals

[topum]

I often go to the list of LJ users and read a couple of random journals. This is how I discover new public journals here.

You may remember how I discovered George Bush's fall from grace a while ago (see here). And all kinds of random things catch my attention there, like this one.

A couple of days ago I went to the list again. This time it was full of neighbours writing about the same stuff. Here my LJ friend bunn and I are both talking about dogs just next to each other:



Our take on this topic in those entries couldn't have been more different I think (mine is just two entries below this one).

And here two neighbours were talking about the same thing again:



How do you discover new public journals here?

Comments

[topum.livejournal.com]

Yes I have a paid account and I have started looking through friends of my friends. Do you know if there is a way to see the list of all journals started in the last one (three, six, etc) months?

[bunn.livejournal.com]

I don't think that exists, but I agree, it's an odd thing for them to be missing. I wonder if it's because people often join LJ originally to read communities or friends journals and so journals can sometimes be a bit quiet to start with? Mine was like that, but then that was a long time ago.

Why did you pick Livejournal over the various alternatives? I would have guessed at Wordpress.com and blogger, maybe medium.com as the blogging sites that are perhaps more popular nowadays. But I am not sure that they have such an interesting range of nationalities?

[topum.livejournal.com]

I think old accounts are more likely to be dead here than new ones these days.

I wanted to avoid professional and commercial bloggers and censorship and wanted to have an option to be anonymous. I was also after geographic diversity (so that not everyone is from the US and only talks US stuff), reasonably long but generic posts and a bit of weird (LJ delivers here).

[gneu.livejournal.com]

I'm from the U.S. and I wish I could talk about anything BUT the U.S., but I don't have that experience.

[topum.livejournal.com]

I talk about the US too and I do want to hear people talking about the US, I just want to have other stuff in my friends feed too, I want to have a mixture.