LiveJournal have announced that they are now running an XMPP server, with users’ rosters auto-populated with their LJ friends. Jean-Louis Seguineau wonders why there hasn’t been much coverage of this outside of the

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I woke up this morning thinking about Livejournal comment spam. I mean, do they get any? How do they prevent it? Do thet use an mt-blacklist equivalent? Of course a lot of the problem is mitigated by the fact that lj is effectively one big trust network and you can disable people who aren’t al...

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Whilst writing my LJ Friends Feed script I noticed that in the section of every livejournal user’s page there’s a meta tag describing the foaf:maker of that page. G’s page, for example, contains this: ```

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G says that there are never any posts on a Sunday, so here’s one just for him (late in the day as it may be). A few days ago I finally got around to knocking up what I’ve decided to give the short title of The LiveJournal Friends Feed Creator. My first foray into the murky world of Python it takes a LiveJournal nickname (say, Xurble), r...

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I promise this is my one and only foray into LiveJournal-isms, but it has to be said: Getting up in the morning sucks.

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