drive-by journal usage meta

[valentinite]

There's all this talk about whether or not DreamWidth is a fannish journaling service, and demographics, and whatever. I wasn't sure what to think, and then I had the following experience: see that there's an xkcd feed, and that the navstrip was giving me a "see most popular feeds" option. Look at it. XKCD was currently at number one.

Number 2 was fandom wank, number 3 was the OTW newsfeed, and Henry Jenkins was in the top 20 (#16).

Yeah, the demographics are demographic-y.

On the other hand, maybe I'll finally start reading Jenkins's feed. Hmm.

ETA: and yes, this is me testing out cross-posting just to make sure it works.

ETA 2&3: I just looked at my UIDs (setting up LJ-login to work with DW) and I have a higher UID on DW than LJ, and that was still during CLOSED BETA. WTF that's a lot of accounts, though if OpenID accounts count, that might do it. And the mood has nothing to do with the content of this post and everything to do with my neck muscles.

I apologize to anyone reading this who does not care about DreamWidth; I'm mostly in it for the meta, as usual. I like watching people migrating like geese and honking strangely as they make aerodynamic shapes against the sky. Or, er, something like that.

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[luciente]

I love Henry Jenkins. My ambition in life is to be Henry Jenkins.

[valentinite]

He's more than a little awesome. Though it occasionally makes me a little sad that there isn't a female researcher synonymous with the field yet, given how much gender plays into fandom dynamics. But Jenkins at least knows this and is generally fantastic on gender issues.

...And I just clicked through to the MIT Comparitive Media Studies page and Jenkins is hosting J. Michael Straczynski later this month with tickets on sale to the general public. Ooh