Wednesdaily

[ellenmillion]

I am SO not ready for it to be halfway through the week. I have to go into town to pay land taxes today, and finish some orders, and have spent entirely too long trouble-shooting 'improvements' at EMG-Zine. The latter was partly user error, partly $%&*@ stupid Word characters, but I do think I've actually solved that problem. Hopefully for the long-term. I did not finish the last story I wanted to have done by today. Bah!

The new issue of EMG-Zine is up! And the new webpage design is revealed! Revel in it's awesomeness! http://emg-zine.com

I have a new story up at Torn World! Those of you who've been following my writing for a while may recognize the bones of this from my Elfwood gallery. It was the second-ever Torn World story that I wrote, and has actual, factual PLOT in it. It has been largely re-written. Enjoy! Homecoming

What else?

Oh, I should probably weigh in on the latest LJ kerfuffle. I don't plan to cross-post any comments I make, ever. I may cross-post my OWN entries, I haven't decided. I ask that you not cross-post your comments from any of my LOCKED posts (which are very rare, and usually locked for a reason and REALLY, LJ, what were you thinking when you came up with that?!), but otherwise, don't really care - public is public, and anyone at Facebook/Twitter who doesn't realize I have a livejournal account is seriously not paying attention.

Okay, much to go do now. Dogged Ellen is doggedly doing.

Comments

[pers1stence.livejournal.com]

kerfuffle? there's a kerfuffle?

also, out of curiosity, is it that you think LJ is weird for coming up with filtering options or were you objecting to something else?

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love that LJ has filtered posts. What I object to (and what I think is raising so much ire on the new cross-posting) is that people can cross-post their own comments that are replies to a locked post. As I understand it, if I post a locked post about hating work (for example), Joe Friend has the option to cross-post their 'I hate work, too!' comment. (I should test it, but I believe that the cross-posting includes a link to the original post, which means that my hypothetical boss could not SEE my work-hating post, but may still know that it's there.)

Additionally, there are the pingbacks: http://www.livejournal.com/support/faqbrowse.bml?faqid=293

Which, again, if I understand (and I'm not sure I completely do...), if you post something (locked or not) and I post something (here at LJ) that links to your post, you get a notification. Even if MY post is locked.

Personally, I think that locked information should be 'invisible.' But I'm also not too worked up about it.

[ankewehner.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that is a bit weird.

Nearly all of my posts that are not crossposted from my private blog are friends-only, and I'd be fine with you using them to test out stuff.

[ellenmillion.livejournal.com]

Oh, okay, it looks like the pingbacks are only valid on public entries. But comments to locked posts can still be cross-posted as described above.

[wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com]

Rats regarding the unfinished story!

I suspect LJ will take away the crossposting in locked posts, there's too many people complaining about that; despite the contest deadline and being really tired, I took time to complain about that!