Interesting reading

For your amusement, some widely-read articles in how to gain Fame and Status (if that's what you want) on LJ.

Part I: Care and Feeding of your LJ
Part II: Comments are your Friend
Part III: How to avoid it blowing up in your face

The above were posted in the feedback article at http://community.livejournal.com/feedback/8690.html which all you of you must have at least glanced at once since the thread was announced.

LJ wierdness: Pirates

So I was not going insane. I couldn't figure out why my "post" button read "Update Captain's Log". Apparently they have decide that I want to participate in "talk like a pirate day".