time to go fandolitical

[slumber]

• fandom_counts currently has 23191 members and the number changes every time I refresh. That is rather awesome.
  
  
• Yeah, yeah, I am SO LATE to the party. Later, in fact, than Mr CEO's attempt at PR management. FAIL, Mr CEO, FAIL. It's not the apology that matters as much as the EXPEDIENCY with which it is received.
  
  
• What say you, flist? If LJ had never been bought by Six Apart, do you think this would have happened? (I'm not suggesting anything, but hey, if you have any opinions, go ahead. :P)
  
  
• Although to play devil's advocate, I suppose you can't completely blame Six Apart for wanting to cover their asses. Their lawyers say that LJ would have been held liable for the content of the journals, even though fandom_lawyers say otherwise. This I would like to see in court. Or celebrity death match.
  
  
• But still. Considering Six Apart's the big boy here (I mean, really, what were they scared of, again? Internet vigilantes? Who don't even use livejournal? If they were going to be scared of people on the intarwebz, they should look to those responsible for putting those dollars in their paychecks. Geez.)
  
  
• Re: Fandom Unite! efforts, though... Besides fandom_count, which is useful only insofar as at least giving us a count of how many we are, I don't think other efforts will work as well. The size of fandom is its weakness as much as its strength. There are many of us, sure, but we are as scattered in what we'd like done as we are with, you know, the kinks in our user infos, so. *shrugs*
  
  
• 23376 members now. That is pretty awesome. How many do you think we'll get?

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[slumber.livejournal.com]

28513 now!

[jaig.livejournal.com]

wtf.