Announcing James Davis Nicoll

[james_davis_nicoll]

The website, courtesy of Adrienne L. Travis. Feel free to mention its existence.


Content is still being moved over but it is officially live now.

Comments

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

I was thinking of posting there, linking here. I mean, I have an audience here and I don't over there (yet) so dropping LJ would be like me softly and quietly vanishing.

[seth ellis (from livejournal.com)]

I know that some authors's blogs crosspost to both their site and their LJ; I wonder what the mechanism is. It'd be a shame to lose the conversations on the LJ side, especially since I think that would be a big draw for repeat readers. Something to think about, anyway.

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

I bet it works like the deal with DW/LJ. But I set that up years ago and no longer remember how it works. Anyway the idea is to build, not displace.

[ann-leckie.livejournal.com]

I use a WP plugin called JournalPress.

You could set reviews there to automatically crosspost to LJ/Dreamwidth (with of course a link at the bottom to the blog post itself) but still do your other posting from LJ/Dreamwidth, I imagine. That way you're not displacing, but you're also making the reviews easily readable by us here. It's a thought, anyway.

[ann-leckie.livejournal.com]

Oh, and you can set it so the comments on the x-posted entries are turned off, with a link to the blog post itself if you'd rather keep all the comments in one place. I don't do it that way, but there's an option for it in the plugin, ISTR

[alienne.livejournal.com]

Yah, this site is not using Wordpress for a number of reasons (security, security, and security, among others) and there is no inbuilt cross-posting mechanism for this CMS. However, i'm thinking of writing one, since it's not a particularly difficult problem.

[alienne.livejournal.com]

Note that the commenting system over there (Livefyre) allows OpenID authentication, which includes anyone with an LJ. Personally, as the web person and someone with an interest in good conversations, i'd rather end UP with the conversations centralized over there. :) But it's ultimately not my choice, but rather James' and his commenters'!

[eub.livejournal.com]

I'm curious, if you evaluated this in planning, would you be able to summarize Livefyre's comment moderation features, maybe with Livejournal's as a reference point?

[alienne.livejournal.com]

I can try at some point soon if you're still interested, but I actually seldom use LJ's comment moderation features so i might not be the best person to do this?

:)

[iayork.livejournal.com]

Are you backing up your LJ? If LJ sells itself to Google tomorrow and shuts down on Monday, will you still have your posts and comments?

(I know there are scripts that will back up a complete LJ along with comments, because I used one and, as far as I know, it still works. I don't know if there's a straightforward graphical-interface version.)

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

The posts are on both DW and LJ. Comments, not so much.