Somehow I missed Momus' announcement that he'd be stopping his LiveJournal,
Click Opera, at the end of February. I only noticed it when looking through recent posts to see what I'd missed.
I admire him for it, of course. I was never very good at finishing things, at drawing a line across and declaring the work at an end. Finishing a blog is an elegant and decisive act, and of course it deserves applause.
At the same time, on another level, it's very depressing. I think of blogging as a natural human activity, something that actually leads to increased production and insight across the board. Of course the ongoing LJ deathwatch is frustrating, but that's why I've set up shop here, why I do a dailyish column in which I think about things. The only thing that's missing is the comments (and I'll work on that one of these days.)
But I'll still miss LiveJournal once we've all figured out how to move off it. Nothing else I've seen has been even close, has given us remotely that feeling of small groups, huddled together in points of light among a vast darkness.
words from chris, 2009-10-22 02:14:11, los angeles
