About LiveJournal

Livejournal.com (LJ, pronounced eljay, spelled eljay by those who are ludicrous) is the amazing journaling site that many UC Davis students waste their time on. It has been around since 1999. For a while, the site had growth-slowing measures in place: access was granted if you knew someone with an invite code. But lo! the admins saw fit to open the site up to everyone again. Lj-ers can update via an html page or through one of the many convenient eljay clients.

LiveJournal was started by a college student named Brad Fitzpatrick. In early 2005, Fitzpatrick sold LiveJournal (the project he proudly calls "his baby") to blogging company Six Apart, which also owns Movable Type, Typepad, and the newly launched Vox. That same year, LiveJournal hit a population of 8 million users with 2 million active journals.

Communities

Livejournal communities act like message boards for various interests. There are a number of local or regional LJ communities.

Peterborough Community

The Peterborough community seems to be fairly active and was created on 2002-08-15.

Trent Univeristy Community

Trent University also has a community created on 2003-12-07

Peterborough Swap Meet Community

Fairly active, the Davis Swap Meet Community is devoted to buying and selling items locally.

Peterborough Events Community

The Peterborough Events feed is tied to the wiki and publishes all of the events listed on the Wiki. If you have a LiveJournal, you can subscribe to the Events Board and get updates on your friends page! But only if someone can figure out how to create a syndicated account on LiveJournal called ptboevents.

Blogs

Quite a few weblogs are kept on Livejournal. A majority are just meant to interact with friends, but a few blogs maintained by locals students are meant for the whole blogosphere.