Why I'm sticking with LiveJournal AND posting elsewhere

[hawkida]

.		Livejournal	Twitter	Facebook	Google Plus	Blogs (wordpress, blogger etc or personal websites)
.	Long form content can be posted	x		x	x	x
.	Posts containing more than one inline link and picture can be made	x	x			x
.	Posts can be made private and hidden from strangers	x	x	x	x
.	Posts can be directed to select groups of people (not just "all followers")	x		x	x
.	Old content can be discovered by date searches and bookmarked	x				x
.	Easy to see both sides of the conversations the people you follow have	x		x	x	x
.	Doesn't go down regularly for upgrades/ddos attacks				x	x
.	Comments on posts are threaded in at-a-glance conversational order	x				x
.	Easy to see all recent updates from various people on one screen	x	x	x	x
.	Easy to see all content from an individual	x	x	x	x	x
	Posts can be formatted as the user wants them to look using html	x				x
.	There are enough people I signed up to talk to/read still there	x	x	x	x

Comments

[hawkida.livejournal.com]

Mind, only Twitter and LJ keep trying to make me care about celebrities and only LJ keeps boring me with stories about imaginary goats. Facebook and LJ are both pretty big on trying to make me share pictures of imaginary gifts to show I care.

[andrewducker]

You don't seem to have a cross for LJ for "posts can be made private".

[psysquid.livejournal.com]

Interesting to see it broken down like that.

Me? I dunno, I just like LJ. The microblogging sites seem to be too slapdash for me. LJ is a bit quiet these days, but then a few years back it was clogged with "what kind of asparagus are you?" quizzes. Somewhere in the middle would have been nice.

[alexmc.livejournal.com]

Personally I'd add a column for LinkedIn, but of course that isn't for everyone.

[kip-w.livejournal.com]

LJ also has the option of (third-party) LJ-Book, which lets you turn any range of your LJ into a PDF, with a number of options.

[lostcarpark.livejournal.com]

Thanks, that's a really useful chart, though sadly LJ seems to be rapidly losing ground on the "There are enough people I signed up to talk to/read still there".

Of course, you left out the important category of "easily post amusing cat pictures".

[del-c.livejournal.com]

I hope you don't mind, I took the liberty of re-arranging your table according to the "diagonalisaton" ideas of the late Jacques Bertin. The idea is to show which categories differ most from each other by putting their most distinct properties in opposite corners.

[ephiriel.livejournal.com]

This is a great assessment - I would just make 2 adjustments - although for one I think I'm reading what you're saying wrong. Anyway, in wordpress they now have a subscriptions page where you can read updates from other blogs you want to read something akin to a friends page - however you can't respond to a specific comment - you can simple respond to a comment by answering in a comment to the blog - therefore the person doesn't know that you have responded to them.

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

Might not be relevant to you, but I like 'fully flexible anonymity model' too.

[matgb]

On the "posts can be made private" line--on Twitter, you can make all your posts public, or all your posts private. You can do exactly the same on Blogger.

On Wordpress, you can password protect the post, or set it so that only logged in users can see specific content (a friend of mine does the latter for some but not all of his content).

Based on that, I'd say that either Twitter needs the X removing or blogs need the X adding. Or the line needs splitting into two as the granularity allowed by LJ/DW, G+ and FB is much better than that allowed by Twitter and most other blog platforms.