Question for the readers

[james_davis_nicoll]

How are people finding this LJ? My .sigfile, through mutual friends, googling subjects or what?

Comments

[armb.livejournal.com]

You mentioned it on rasff.

[cincinnatus.livejournal.com]

You mentioned it on SHW-I.

Berard

[amberdine.livejournal.com]

Um.

Um.

I don't know. It's been a while. I kind of vaguely feel like someone, somewhere, said you had an LJ... LWE?

Either that or the cats added you when I wasn't looking.

[thomasyan.livejournal.com]

You posted in my LJ or I noticed a comment of yours on my readinglist or I noticed you on the readinglist of someone on my readinglist list. I forget which; I suspect the first.

[stevendj.livejournal.com]

I've been following your posts on Usenet for many years. I think lwe was the first to mention the existence of your LiveJournal in my (virtual) presence, but whoever it was, as soon as I found out about it I went to add you.

[pompe.livejournal.com]

Mutual friends. I try to read someone else's friends page once in a while, and I guess I saw some interesting post that way.

[andrewducker]

I recognised you from RASFW and we have about 12 LJ friends in common. Damn fans get everywhere.

[janetmk.livejournal.com]

I can't remember. I may have seen an early comment you made or someone mentioned your LJ presence.

[blackbirdcd.livejournal.com]

I believe I found it through Sclerotic_Rings' journal. . .

Not much chance of that happening again, I'm afraid.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

what happened to him, anyway?

[kightp.livejournal.com]

Via a newsgroup that has nothing to do with sf (well, except in the sense that all newsgroups do). I'm so old-school.

I'm also probably one of your few readers who really knew next-to-nothing about you before looking in on this journal, so it's been my pleasure to discover it here, bit by bit. And now, of course, I know it's not an exaggeration. (-;

[elynne.livejournal.com]

Ah, this would be newsgroup I think I'm thinking of?

[elynne.livejournal.com]

1. manymany mutual friends
2. mutual community commenting? maybe
3. mutual past involvement with newsgroup a.p.? if my memory serves correctly, which it often doesn't
4. dunno.
5. hi!

[tekalynn.livejournal.com]

I think I saw a comment of yours somewhere, perhaps on papersky's journal, and thought "THAT James Nicoll? From rasfw years ago?" and friended you.

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

.sigfile on rasseff. But at least one person, maybe more, is now reading this LJ on my recommendation.

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

Don't remember. If you ever mentioned it on rasfw and sibling groups then probably from there; I think you were the first non-personal-friend blog I started following regularly.

recognized name from rasfw

[romsfuulynn.livejournal.com]

I actually still read rasfw, but only by retrieving posts of about a dozen people, and then following up on anything they find interesting. You're one of the dozen, and so is LWE.

Saw you comment somewhere on someone whose journal I read.

how did I find you?

[(Anonymous)]

Through your .sigfile

Margaret Young

Re: how did I find you?

[disassembly_rsn]

Through your .sigfile

Likewise (SHWI et al).

[slrose.livejournal.com]

From a friend's friends list -- either papersky or seawasp -- or both.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Mutual friends, although I don't remember who.

Usenet

[(Anonymous)]

I first noticed you during the "Nicoll threads" era on RASFW. I find your stuff informative and amusing, and you demonstrate similar tastes in SF, so I tend to look up your usenet posts fairly regularly. You referenced you LJ in a post when you started it. Content tends to parallel usenet activity, but commentary varies.

martinl

[chromeraven.livejournal.com]

I picked up the link you posted on SHWI - these days, I read it by searching for about 6 names, and reading what they post, and you're one of the names. :-)

[submarine-bells.livejournal.com]

It was mentioned on rasfw (I think not too long after you started it) so I just had to check it out.

[logrusboy.livejournal.com]

Someone else I was following cited you as the smartest man on the internet or some such. Figured it was worth a look.

[logrusboy.livejournal.com]

...er...someone I was following on LJ, just to add precision...

[le-trombone.livejournal.com]

Partly through your .sig on your rasfw posts. That's not what got me onto LJ in the first place though; credit for that was my book group, which has an LJ presence. After finally getting around to setting up an LJ account, I added you to my friends list and started reading your entries.

[robertprior.livejournal.com]

Paul Drye's friends list

[debgeisler.livejournal.com]

You mentioned some humorous mayhem you'd done to yourself, which was quoted to me...and I remembered your name and delightful wit.