On the night of June 3-4, 2010, there was a short-term malfunction in LiveJournal.com, noticeable only to Russian-speaking users.

Bloggers pointed out the strange coincidence of the names of suicide bombers
The complete namesake Maryam Sharipova, who staged a terrorist attack in the capital's metro, blew herself up at a rock festival in Tushino in 2003.

Bloggers warn
The Federal Biomedical Agency is preparing a program to close blood transfusion units at hospitals.

Bloggers will choose "National Bestseller - 2009"
The All-Russian Literary Award "National Bestseller" in 2009 begins cooperation with the Internet resource Livejournal.com.

Olga Bakushinskaya

LJ in Russia is more than LJ

Five ways to become a famous blogger

The more a person reads you, the easier it is to create within yourself the illusion that you are not alone and that someone needs you. I can understand people who have been busy for years with only one thing - acquiring readers in any way.

Eva Rapoport

LJ as a tool of social justice

What does it mean to be a thousand

An Internet blog, which has many or very many readers, is an independent independent media outlet, an instrument of social justice, and anything else (not excluding the possibility of earning a tangible amount of money).

Arthur Welf

Live VKontakte

What will happen to LJ if Pavel Durov gets it in control

In the comments on Roem.ru, Pavel Durov suggested selling him LiveJournal so that he could “revive the legendary resource”. I tried to imagine how LJ would look like if control was transferred to the founder of VKontakte.

Anton Nosik

LJ strikes back

Rumors about the death of LJ have not yet been confirmed

Live Journal has been buried for a long time. Recently - with special pathos associated with the sharp growth of social networks, in particular Facebook. The founder of "VKontakte" Pavel Durov even offered to help the "dying man". On LiveJournal and Facebook, the regular “funeral” of LiveJournal caused an active discussion. LiveJournal veteran Anton Nosik and Facebook apologist Arthur Welf spoke about this. "Private Correspondent" decided to figure out what is happening with social media.

Sergey Taranov

Drugoi vs. Interfax

Blogger's victory over a journalist in a single hydroelectric power station

So the seemingly long-awaited conflict of the modern era was born. Blogging and professional journalism, which existed in parallel to each other, came face to face at the same time and in one place - on the dismantling of the rubble of the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station. According to Interfax, the Russian "blogger number one" - drugoi, who is also the head of the SUP multimedia department Rustem Adagamov, survived from the scene of the reputable Interfax news agency Dmitry Afonin.

Anton Merkurov

Blogger Mikhail Kovalev, unable to tolerate the regular appearance of not very censorship vocabulary in the diary of blogger Artemy Lebedev, wrote a statement to the Russian prosecutor's office, the purpose of which is to prohibit the use of invective vocabulary throughout the American portal Livejournal.com. The blogger takes care of the moral health of Mr. Lebedev personally, as well as of all his subscribers, and indeed of all Internet users. The blogger cannot sleep well and cannot understand in any way that a blog is, in general, a kitchen. And Mr. Lebedev owes nothing to anyone.

Svetlana Ivannikova: "One word in LJ can achieve a lot"

What will change in LiveJournal Russia under the new leadership

Last week it became known that the company SUP, which owns LiveJournal and Gazeta.Ru, has undergone personnel changes. Svetlana Ivannikova, who previously headed the marketing department, has been appointed the new head of LiveJournal Russia. Svetlana graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University several years ago and wrote a diploma about LJ, which was read by both teachers and students.

Alexey Yablokov: "I have no special relationship with the Internet"

Alexey Yablokov gave an interview to "Chaskor"

The new chief editor of Smena magazine about consumers and creators, one and a half years of idleness and the benefits of them, blogs and LJ glavred, the village of Paradise and people who have dropped out of the business plan, universal values ​​and New Year's garlands.

Cheap life - smart life

Practicing smart consumption in one experiment

Several friends decided to try to spend wisely for four weeks and write about it in LiveJournal. Their experience turned out to be so interesting that more than 700 readers are already following the community. Maybe this is what we all lack in a consumer society?

Vasily Esmanov: "The only way to entertain yourself is to do something yourself"

On July 9, the ceremony of awarding the IX National Award "Media Manager of Russia - 2009", one of the main national awards in the field of media business, took place. Vasily Esmanov, 25-year-old creator of the youth web project Look At Me, became the laureate of the prize in the "New Media" nomination by unanimous decision of the jury - "For the creation of the only media youth Internet in Russia."

I consider the LiveJournal (www.livejournal.com) to be the most valuable and unique source of information, I dream of sorting this information into “shelves” and “business cards” (like “multimedia catalog cards”) of my Panlog. But for this, initially it is necessary to single out the most popular "live journals" (blogs, diaries), although, of course, popularity and mass character is by no means a guarantee of information content and thoroughness. I myself dream of slowly evaluating every significant blog, but only in the course of contenting the Personalities section of my Panlog. However, an overview of the most interesting blogs, including political ones, is presented in the LiveJournal itself in the blogs of Ilya Peresedov and Denis Tukmakov. Some people I would add, including from my list of friends. It is not so much discussions of important topics that are important as getting important information and stimulating intellectual impulses. First, this is what Ilya Peresedov chose, having spent colossal work, in the material "Who's Who in LiveJournal":

Summary overview(about 200 names) of LJ readable journals.

Blogs are informative (with a distinct topic), meaningful, as a rule, do not develop mental disorder in friends.

The review is incomplete and very biased. By eye, it is divided into headings.

For those who have found it useful, I ask you to announce the list in journals to supplement information and sections.

Utamusic - singer Utah is talented, friendly, sociable. Cultural, albeit popular.
olga_arefieva - Olga Arefieva is a famous rock singer, writer, guru.
khaloymes - Psoy Galaktionovich Korolenko - poet, singer, avant-garde artist
polittechno - Alexey Vishnya - musician, cult sound engineer, author of legendary video samples.
kalugin - Sergey Kalugin - rock musician, good poet, professional guitarist, leader of the Orgy of the Righteous group (unfortunately).
sourdummy - Vitaly Loginov is just a stylish magazine about contemporary music.
rock_meloman is a literate rock history magazine.
bogushevich - Irina Bogushevskaya is a popular singer.
zaxar_borisych - Zakhar May is a rock musician, cult for many.
ylgur - Helavissa is a soloist of the Melnitsa group.
p0grebizhskaya - singer Butch.
umkaumka and ru_umka - Umka (Anna Gerasimova) - the leader of the rock group "Umka and Bronevichok", the last hippie.
chernetsky - Alexander Chernetsky - head of the Raznye Lyudi rock group, a veteran of rock and roll.
liapin - Alexander Lyapin - a guitarist who played with the Aquarium of the classical composition and DDT, showed a master class in London at the invitation of Paul McCartney.
ylores - Yuri Lores - bard, member of the Writers' Union, bard, director-teacher for the skill of an actor, bard.
klodonis - Andrey Emelyanov - experimental music theorist, musicologist.
corny_joke - Andrey Volkov - artist, musicologist, historian of avant-garde rock.
m_u_s_t_a_f_a - Oleg Starodubtsev - music lover, music collector, Muslim, writer.
sexfunk - Vis Vitalis - rapper, poet, rock musician.

Theater, cinema, animation, television

Pavelrudnev - Pavel Rudnev - theater critic, art director of the Center. Meyerhold.
samoleg - Oleg Kuvaev - cult animator, creator of Masyanya.
vanya_maximov - Ivan Maksimov - genius animator, author of the films "Wind Along the Coast" and "Provincial School"
aldashin - Mikhail Aldashin - director, screenwriter and producer of the Pilot animation studio. the author of the most magnificent films.
oleg_kozyrev - Oleg Kozyrev is a writer, screenwriter, witty person.
e_grishkovets - Evgeny Grishkovets is the author of popular solo performances.
kolyadanik - Nikolai Kolyada - playwright, editor-in-chief of the Ural magazine, artistic director of the Kolyada Theater, Yekaterinburg
spitzruten - Alexander Rozanov - video art, video clip director.
cinemapages - Pavel Ruminov - filmmaker, (film "Dead Daughters").
tuganbaev - Askar Tuganbaev - journalist, TV presenter, producer of the Rutube.ru portal. A very bright person.
dmitrydibrov - Dmitry Dibrov - TV presenter, showman.
koroed is the director of the Internet television "Russia.Ru".
pushnoy_ru - Alexander Pushnoy - TV presenter, KVN star, musician.
awas1952 - Anatoly Wasserman is a mathematician, a veteran of the intellectual games "What? Where? When?" and "Brain-ring".

Art

Corso_ - art critic, publisher, specialist in Old Russian art, senior researcher at the Tretyakov Gallery.
clement - art critic, historian, archivist.
galerist - Marat Gelman - gallery owner, political strategist, "patriarch" of modern fine arts.
dmitrivrubel - Dmitry Vrubel - famous contemporary artist, author of the iconic portrait "The kiss of Brezhny and Honecker" on the Berlin Wall, the grand-nephew of "that very Vrubel".
teterin - Sergey Teterin, media artist.
cmart - Oleg Pashchenko is an endlessly talented designer and illustrator. This is already art.
winzavod is the magazine of the largest exhibition site for contemporary art in Moscow.
dadakinder - Anatoly Ulyanov - Ukrainian journalist, critic, writer, editor-in-chief of the "Proza" publication about contemporary art.
teroganian - Avdey Ter-Ohanian is the same infamous artist who left the country due to threats from Orthodox fundamentalists.
irinshka - Irina Gabiani is a talented artist from Georgia (examples of works).
lena_hades is a non-conformist artist and in general she's a little thing.
borya_spec - Boris Spets is a philosopher-cartoonist.
zhgun is a talented and very witty illustrator from the studio of Artemy Lebedev.
akuaku - Andrey Kuznetsov is a very talented and witty illustrator.
ellustrator - Sergey Elkin is a talented and popular cartoonist.
soamo - Vladimir Kamaev is another cult illustrator, only from St. Petersburg.
gordei - Andrey Gordeev is just a good and witty artist and designer.
a_asz - Alexander Zavarin - artist, restorer, art historian.

Literature

Levrub - Lev Rubinstein - poet, writer, sixties.
maccolit - Alexander Zhitinsky - writer, publisher, Internet guru.
izubr - Alya Kudryasheva - the most popular network poet
vero4ka - Vera Polozkova - the most popular network poet
shenderovich - Viktor Shenderovich - humorist, writer, journalist, public figure.
ganja_jungle - Dmitry Gaiduk - writer-storyteller, author of the project "Rastaman Tales"
tom_stoppard - Tom Stoppard is a great modern English playwright, the magazine is conducted in Russian by the referent.
snorapp - Linor Goralik is a cult modern writer, author of a series of philosophical comics about the Hare of the LC and his imaginary friends.
hildegart is just a genius network writer
aspida - for the sake of such names, LJ exists. A unique series of texts "the world through the eyes of a cat" here:
immoralist - Almat Malatov - folk-bohemian writer.
doctor_livsy - popular science fiction writer Sergey Lukyanenko.
chemodanov - Andrey Chemodanov is a poet, a soulful person.
bachilo - Alexander Bachilo - humorist poet, science fiction writer.
lleo - Leonid Kaganov is a writer, poet, a very witty person.
mysch_glikeria - magazine of children's fairy tales.
solipsistka - Ella Dersai, writer, editor, works in the style of glamorous trash.
frumich - Sergei Uzun - writer, humorist, storyteller.
gardenerm - Yuri Smirnov, film producer, poet, writer.
labas - Igor Petrov - poet, writer, Internet legend.
beauty_n_beast - Spouses Divov and Prokopchik, writers (mostly science fiction writers), good storytellers.
afranius - Kirill Eskov - writer, author of "The Gospel of Afranius", scientist.
vanda_va - Marina Yudenich - bestselling author, socialite.
chingizid - Max Fry.
aptsvet - Alexey Tsvetkov - poet, translator. Honored and beloved.
borkhers - Boris Kherson - Russian poet and psychiatrist.
berezin - Vladimir Berezin is a science fiction writer, a good storyteller.
mrparker - Maxim Kononenko is the same creator of the site Vladimir.Vladimirovich.Ru, the author of the book "A Day of the Excellent Student", a popular blogger.
urus_hay - Andrey Lazarchuk is a talented science fiction writer.
fayzov - Danila Fayzov is a poet, organizer of poetry parties, an expert on the poetic life of Moscow.
vodennikov - Dmitry Vodennikov is a popular poet, handsome.

Journalism

Drugoi - Rustem Adagamov is the most read and popular LJ user. Unique photo reports, news from all over the world.
labazov - reviews of historical dates, thematic collections of e-books.
dimagubin - Dmitry Gubin is an excellent journalist, good conversationalist, regular author of Ogonyok and other publications.
malutka_du - Igor Dudinsky - editor, journalist, living legend.
m_yu_sokolov - the same Maxim Sokolov - a Kremlin journalist, beard and bore.
smitrich - Dmitry Sokolov-Mitrich is a leading journalist of the Izvestia newspaper, author of the scandalous book "Non-Tajik girls, non-Chechen boys".
e_dikiy - Sergei Ilyin - journalist, political and economic observer, "Expert" and other publications.
yatsutko - Denis Yatsutko is a journalist and network thinker. Great. Gloomy.
avmalgin - Andrey Malgin - journalist, publisher, anti-Soviet, know-it-all. Very nervous, tends to trust conspiracy theories.
nl - Nikolay Danilov ("Norwegian Forest") - journalist, photographer, editor, Internet guru.
anticompromat - Vladimir Pribylovsky - journalist, chronicler, historian of the Middle Ages in the past. Editor of the site "Antikompromat.Ru" - a library of texts about Russian politics and life in general. Facts are always served hot and with pepper.
xlarina - Ksenia Larina - radio host of "Echo of Moscow", editor-in-chief of the "Teatral" magazine.
leonid_b - Leonid Bleher - publicist, critic, head of the "Discourse Club" Internet project.
timur_aliev - Timur Aliev - editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Chechenskoe obshchestvo" (Grozny).
golishev - Vladimir Golyshev is the editor of the independent information portal Nazlobu.Ru. Very, very independent.
kotoeb - Ilya Barabanov - journalist, columnist for The New Times magazine
ymalbats - Evgenia Albats - journalist, host of copyright programs on radio "Echo of Moscow", editor of the "Politics" section of "The New Times" magazine, professor at the Higher School of Economics.
scottishkot - Yuri Vasiliev - journalist, editor of the "Society" department of "Ogonyok" magazine, provocateur and writer.
kozenko - Andrey Kozenko - correspondent of the society department of the newspaper "Kommersant".
recepter - Ruslan Linkov - writer, journalist, human rights activist.
vad_nes - Vadim Nesterov - head of the "Culture" department of the Gazeta.Ru website, literary critic.
avvas - Andrei Vasilevsky - literary critic, employee of the magazine "New World".
arkhangelsky - Adeksander Arkhangelsky - journalist, observer of "Izvestia", author and host of the program "Meanwhile"
_kutuzov - Nikolai Troitsky - journalist.
askerov - Rovshan Askerov - sports columnist, player "What? Where? When?"
clear_text - Denis Dragunsky - publicist
gospodi - Alexander Shatalov - literary critic, publisher, TV presenter.
corpuscula - Anastasia Chastitsyna is a gossip columnist and a regular contributor to Rolling Stone magazine.
sumlenny - Sergey Sumlenny - journalist, correspondent of "Expert" in Germany.
plushev - Alexander Plyushchev - presenter of radio "Echo of Moscow", Internet guru.
barros - Sergei Berezhnoy - literary and film critic.
pavell - Pavel Svyatenkov is an analyst, political commentator.
pintrader - Dmitry Romendik - journalist, poet, editor of innovative network projects.
shmelev - Alexander Shmelev - editor-in-chief of the Internet newspaper "Vzglyad", politician, political scientist.
zt - Dmitry Butrin - Head of the Economic Policy Department of the Kommersant newspaper.
good_boy is a quality film study magazine.
cook - Sergey Parkhomenko - publisher, journalist, radio host of "Echo of Moscow", restaurateur.
agavr - Alexander Gavrilov - literary critic, editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Book Review"
kinanet - Sergey Kudryavtsev is a legendary film encyclopedist.
yellow_reporter - Sergey Kozakov is a journalist, organizer of TV programs and political debates.
a_nikonov - Alexander Nikonov - writer, publicist, author of provocative books, editor of the site "Without censorship".
parfenov_l - Leonid Parfenov - journalist, TV presenter, media guru.
uskov - Nikolay Uskov - editor-in-chief of "GQ" magazine.

Humanitarian sciences

Victorsolkin - Victor Solkin, professional Egyptologist, author of scientific articles, collector of photographs of ancient art.
dmitry_loevsky - Dmitry Loevsky - historian, translator of monographs on the history of culture.
ivanov_petrov - LiveJournal star, biologist, researcher, sociologist-practitioner.
r_l - Roman Leibov - analyst-columnist, semioticist, lecturer at the University of Tartu, the first Russian-speaking user of LiveJournal.
shaherezada - Larisa Lisyutkina - culturologist, lecturer at the Free University (Berlin).
pigbig - Elena Gapova - Director of the Center for Gender Studies of the European Humanities University in Minsk, women's issue as it is.
ksonin - Konstantin Sonin is a professor at the Russian School of Economics, a renowned political economist.
alik_manov - Oleg Lekmanov - literary critic, professor at Moscow State University and Russian State Humanitarian University, author of the famous book "Yesenin", in which the version of the violent death of the poet, the biography of Osip Mandelstam in the series "ZhZL" is completely destroyed.
galkovsky is a free philosopher, the author of the first Russian postmodern novel "Endless Dead End" (thinks himself a genius and behaves accordingly).
alwdis - Alexandra Barkova - mythologist, Buddhist.
kosilova - Elena Kosilova - philosopher, employee of Moscow State University.
hentiamenti - Pavel Kostylev is a religious scholar, researcher at Moscow State University.
u_96 - a diary of a Russian professional historian - everything about military history and not only, deeply and with excellent humor. As befits a pirate - purely masculine style and mate to the place.
ashako is a pro from the State. Hermitage Museum, a lot of interesting information and reflections on China, Tibet and oriental art in general. Inside view of the museum.
yamauba is a pro from the State. Hermitage Museum, subtle, deep and imaginative posts about Japan, Japanese art, museum life. Inside view of the museum.
nikto001 - Kirill Alekseev - art critic, antiquarian, artist. A lot of interesting and high-quality information about the history of art.
hitrovka - Nikolay Avvakumov is a serious magazine dedicated to architecture, preservation of cultural heritage monuments, Russia of past centuries.
pulman - Andrey Gordienko is a historian and publisher from Minsk. Patriotic history, history of space, history of the Afghan war and modern history of Afghanistan.
a_barhin - A. Barkhin - architect, art historian. Lots of information and photos on the history of architecture, masterpieces of architecture and styles. An abundance of useful links.
centaurito - archaeologist and historian of antiquity from St. Petersburg; the journal contains a lot of useful, mostly scientific information on the archeology of Asia and related disciplines. Interesting discussions.

the Internet

Tema - Artemy Lebedev is a cult designer, Internet guru, author of Yandex design.
avva - Anatoly Vorobey - programmer, once participated in the development of LiveJournal, Internet guru.
dolboeb - Anton Nosik, journalist, Internet guru, "patriarch" LJ.
exler - Alex Exler - writer, journalist, professional "power user" PC.
skuzn - Sergei Kuznetsov - journalist, writer, author of the book on the history of Runet "Feeling the Elephant".
kukutz - Roman Ivanov - programmer, Yandex employee, Internet guru.
elisssa - Natalya Loseva - head of Internet projects of the agency "Ria-Novosti", Internet guru.
moshkow - Maxim Moshkov - the creator of the Lib.Ru website - the most famous Internet library, guru.
valkorn is a journalist, editor, designer.

Women in LJ

Katechkina is an online writer, author of an endless series of stories about the obstacles to a married woman's life. She is optimistic and witty.
radulova - Natalia Radulova is a talented journalist, writes about the share of women in general in this most difficult of the worlds.
marta_ketro is practically a cult writer about women, dignity and truth.
muramur is a writer, artist, about life through the prism of beauty.
otte_pelle - human psychology in all its forms.
feruza - Dina Sabitova - children's writer, winner of the national literary prize "VIRTUAL DREAM", the keeper of the hearth.
sol_tat - doctor, writer, woman-razor, girl-scalpel.
bluecaffe - notes of a Petersburg woman living in Sweden, sweet, observant, witty. She also "does everything !!!"
becky_sharpe - Bozena Rynska is a gossip columnist for the Izvestia newspaper.
hrivelote - Anna Rivelote is a writer, an alcoholic in a string, glamorous decadence.
snandulija - Olga Maksimova - radio host, "Morning Lark".
beth4ever - Elizaveta Ponomareva - editor of the "Friend of cats" magazine, literary agent and critic.
garpia2 - Svetlana is the chief zoologist of LJ, a specialist in amphibians and reptiles.
pilka - Lena - the author of amusing lytdybras about the life of a married woman, a gynecologist, a man of an interesting fate.
belik - Olga Belik is a gossip columnist, creator of the "StarsLife.Ru" website, chief LiveJournalist on Johnny Depp.
xvii is an interesting women's magazine.
mrs_majorsha - refined, like madrigal, writes about love and its consequences.
phenobarbidol_ - Sofia Bakhurina - nonconformist, poet, translator, fashion model.
pepel - Elena Pepel is a network writer.

UPD. at the request and requirements of readers, a section has been added: Men in LiveJournal
section compiled by muramur, original entry: http://muramur.livejournal.com/220661.html, mirror: http://peresedov.livejournal.com/616726.html

Politics, social activities

Belyh - Nikita Belykh is the leader of the Union of Right Forces, it seems.
roizman - Yevgeny Roizman is a patriotic deputy without a mandate, a drug fighter, some kind of muddy.
yashin - Ilya Yashin is the leader of the Yabloko youth party, a playboy of Russian youth policy.
b_nemtsov - Boris Nemtsov is an eternal young politician.
navalny - Alexey Navalny - journalist, TV presenter, liberal patriot, one of the leaders of the public movement "NAROD"
alex_lebedev - Alexander Lebedev is a diadokh, millionaire, media mogul, politician.
shargunov - Sergei Shargunov is a writer, politician, the third number of the first three of the "Fair Russia" party, a victim of the Kremlin's Agitprop.
nevzlin - Leonid Nevzlin - banker, businessman, one of the co-owners of the YUKOS company, former rector of the Russian State Humanitarian University, emigrated to Israel, fleeing Russian justice.
doctor_liza - Elizaveta Glinka - head of the ambulance service for the hopelessly sick, holy LJ.
chistyakova - Ekaterina Chistyakova - doctor, donor.
vnovodvorskaia - Valeria Novodvorskaya is the will, conscience and honor of independent Russian democracy. The leader of the Democratic Union party, conducts endless dialogues with readers on the basis of the "ask - we answer" principle.
abstract2001 - Marina Litvinovich - political strategist, professional oppositionist, journalist.
den_shi - Denis Shilnikov - political strategist, press secretary of the Democratic Party, musician.
bonych - Andrey Bogdanov - political strategist, leader of the Democratic Party, presidential candidate.
v_alksnis2 - Viktor Alksnis is a former deputy of the State Duma, professional patriot, great livejournalist.
sapojnik - Alexey Roshchin - political strategist, journalist, leader of the Free Party.
tosainu - Laura Beloivan - writer, ecologist, animal protector.
karimova - Anastasia Karimova - journalist, young politician, volunteer of charitable organizations.

Yakov_krotov - O. Yakov Krotov - priest, theologian, host of the author's program on Radio Liberty, a student of Alexander Men.
hgr - about. Gregory (Lurie) is a Byzantine scholar, Church historian, social activist, leader of a small but friendly Orthodox Church.
klangtao - Oleg Doroshenko - theologian, Internet author (Orthodox).
zamorin - Bakulin Miroslav - journalist, teacher, editor-in-chief of the site "Russian Week".
piotr_sakharov - Peter Sakharov, philologist, liturgist, Christian publicist, one of the authors of the Catholic Encyclopedia.
gurbolikov - Vladimir Gurbolikov - deputy. editor-in-chief of the "Foma" magazine.
petru44o - Peter Korolev is the editor-in-chief of the Orthodox student magazine Vstrecha.
ann_d - Anna Danilova - editor-in-chief of the site "Orthodoxy and the World"
kot_begemott - Igor Lebedev is a network writer, an Orthodox layman.
priestal - Alexander Shramko - a priest from Belarus with benevolent views.
steba - biblical scholar at the behest of the heart, Orthodox.
berggeist - Gleb Yastrebov - lecturer at the Biblical and Theological Institute, translator, biblical New Testament scholar.
reverendsfd - Serhiy Dezhnyuk is an American Episcopal priest of Ukrainian origin, a public figure, an interesting conversationalist.
ezh108 is a practicing yogi, writes sketches about trips to India, posts videos from YouTube containing samples of Indian religious culture.
dharmena - a blog of a member of the Society for Krishna Consciousness, links to resources for Krishna Consciousness on the Internet, announcements of festivals, quotes from sacred texts with comments.
boris_yakemenko - Boris Yakemenko - head of the Orthodox corps of the Nashi movement.

Ostrich_san - Alexey Gavrilets is a bully, an erotomaniac, a virtuoso of an artistic mat.
adolfych - Vladimir Nesterenko - writer, truth-lover-punisher, the curse of the Turgenev family.
bagirov - Eduard Bagirov - "people's" writer (novel "Guest worker"), editor-in-chief and leading author of the litprom.ru website, rude and rowdy.
bugzzz - Stepan Eremin - creator, owner and editor-in-chief of padonki.org
karmakom - Ilya Kormiltsev (09/26/1959 - 02/04/2007) - poet, translator, cultural theorist, publisher.
chich8 - Evgeny Chichvarkin is a successful businessman, founder of Euroset, a hybrid of O. Bender and B. Gates.
emelind - Vsevolod Emelin - poet, author of emphatically politically incorrect poems.
susel_times - Oleg Borichev - poet, foul language, romantic.

Everyday writers, just interesting interlocutors

Kitya is a professional traveler who has lived in Japan for a long time.
hectop is a pilot, aviation specialist.
letchikleha is a pilot-photographer.
alexbogd - Alexey Bogdanovsky is a special correspondent for Ria-Novosti in Greece.
stilo - Anna Polyanskaya - journalist, observer of Parisian everyday life, anti-Islamist.
iraan - Irina Antanasievich - writer, observer of Yugoslav everyday life.
tttkkk - Andrey Lankov - political scientist, expert on North Korea.
langobard - Sergei Schmidt is a philosophy teacher, an ironic observer of life.
willie_wonka - Anna Korosteleva - teacher of Russian for foreigners at Moscow State University, specialist in the Irish language. Interests: China, Japan, American Indian languages, etc.
smartnik - Sergey Nikolenko - mathematician, specialist in artificial intelligence, player of the club "What? Where? When?"
zina_korzina is a magazine about fashion, its history and in general.
bars_of_cage -
stas_kulesh - Stanislav Kulesh is a life columnist from New Zealand.

Photographers, photo collectors

D_konstantinov - Dmitry Konstantinov is a professional photographer.
mi3ch - Dmitry Chernyshev - art director of an advertising agency, collector of rare photographs.
paszec - Pavel Kiryukhin - artist, designer, photographer, stove-maker, bell-ringer, carpenter.
russos is a metro photographer.
kotiy_pilat - Alexander Belenky - photographer, traveler.
usachev - Alexey Usachev - photographer, designer, reporter.
semas - Sergei Semkin - St. Petersburg photographer, singer of the beauty of young maidens.
dolgachov - Lev Dolgachev is a secular photographer.
remetalk - Sergey Maksimishin - St. Petersburg photojournalist, one of the most famous photographers in Russia, laureate of World Press Photo.
wildrussia - Viktor Petrovich Gritsyuk - photographer, photojournalist, photo editor.
konst_d - Konstantin Dyachkov - photographer, photojournalist, author of many photo stories from church life.
im_foto - Igor Mukhin is one of the most famous genre photographers of the post-Soviet period.
allanrannu - Allan, traveler, artist, photographer, philosopher. Strikingly beautiful author's photographs taken in the Himalayas, Tibet, India and other countries of Asia.
nikolkaya - Nicole - photographs from all over the world from the North Cape to Cape Horn, journalist.

Economy and business.

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Instructions for creating a blog in LiveJournal

After my post about making money on a blog, many letters come with questions: "How to make your blog?" In principle, there is nothing complicated about this, but to satisfy all readers, I publish a guide to creating a blog in LJ.

Registration in LiveJournal

I draw your attention to the fact that instructions and guides for managing and setting up blogs are in the Help and FAQ sections of the LiveJournal. They contain a huge amount of information, but often not necessary in order to simply start using the service. So I will tell about the main actions to be done creating a blog.

Before creating a blog on LJ, you need to get an address Email... The easiest way is to open a mailbox on any free mail service - on Yandex, Rambler, Google or Mail.ru. In order not to remember passwords on various mail services, I recommend that you immediately set a redirect on them to your main e-mail. So you can have an unlimited number of mailboxes, working directly with one.

If there is a mailbox, you can start opening a blog... Go to www.livejournal.com... There is a lot of different information about LiveJournal, but we are now interested in an inscription or a button "Create an account"... Click and go to the registration page. On it you need to fill in some fields.

Username.

Choose your name from Latin letters, numbers and the underscore.

E-mail address.

There must be a real address here, since it automatically receives confirmation of registration, as well as all messages related to LiveJournal. These include messages that a comment has been made on your blog, or that someone has added you to their friends list.

Password.

Enter your password and remember it. Better to use both letters and numbers in the password.

Confirm the password.

Confirm the password by typing it again.

Birthday.

In principle, you can enter any date here. LiveJournal does not require you to enter your real age. And when registering a blog, you can completely or partially hide your birthday from prying eyes.

Verification that you are human.

This item is a standard protection against spammers who conduct automatic registrations using special programs. To check, enter the 2 specified English words. If it didn't work the first time, it's okay, the next time a different one will be issued, as a rule, more readable.

Site news.

By default, there is a check mark next to this field with the text “ Yes, send me LiveJournal announcements.”If you do not want to receive emails with LiveJournal news, uncheck the box.

After filling in the fields, press the button: "Create an account"

On this page, we are offered to quickly create your profile. I recommend that you carefully consider this, because in the future it will significantly affect the promotion of your blog. LiveJournal itself puts it like this: “Let others know who you are. Filling in all of these fields is completely optional, but the more you fill in, the better. " Let me explain why - this page will later be called your blog profile and will receive a unique address on the Internet, i.e. will be another blog post that is available to readers and search engines. Filling in the sections ...

With fields “Name”, “Gender”, “Where are you” I think there will be no problems, especially since you have already filled them in and they are substituted automatically. But if you want, you can change the name, because your nickname appears there by default.

Then comes the “What are you interested in?” Section. Here you are invited to fill in the fields with your favorite music artists, books, films, and also name your hobby. You can also list your other interests. Each interest can be represented by both a word and a phrase. Interests are separated by commas. After you complete the registration, in the profile view, you will see that those interests that are shared by anyone else have become hyperlinks. By clicking on such a link, you will find yourself on a page where other users are presented who have the same interest. Those interests that are unique will remain just text. Check their spelling carefully. Perhaps a mistake has crept into them. For example: “players” and “players” - will lead to different pages.

Next comes a large field "Tell us a little (or a lot, if you like) about yourself:"... It allows you to place any information. More information - more content - better promotion in search engines.

The next box on this page prompts you to select your account type - "Paid" or "Free"... I think for a start in 99% of cases the free type is suitable, but it's up to you. All the advantages of the paid plan can be explored by clicking on the hyperlink located next to the account type.

After that, in the frame on the right, select the style of your account. Well, it's all for your taste and color! then press the button: "Save and Continue" Now you need to check your mail on the e-mail box, there will be a letter with a link. To complete the registration follow the link. If everything is correct, you will see the page:

Everything, in principle, the creation of the blog is completed. You now have a blog named www.name.livejournal.com, where name is the name of your blog.

First blog post.

If you are on the above page, then follow the link "Write to the journal"... If you just went to the blog from its main page www.name.livejournal.com, then click on the link “Post” (or “New Post”).

In the window that opens, enter the subject of the post. The subject of the post is very important, it should not only reflect the content of the post, but also include keywords.

There are two modes for entering text: visual editor and HTML. The first allows you to format the text in a similar way as it is done in the text editor Word, and the second allows you to enter text with tags. For novice users, in my opinion, it is better to use a visual editor.

Enter the body of your message. In the visual editor mode, you can change the font size and color, insert and delete hyperlinks, tables, a numbered or bulleted list, highlight text fragments in italics or bold, underline, etc. Toolbar icons are very similar to those in Word.

The ability to remove under the cut is very important for LJ users, both from the point of view of the readers of his blog and the point of view of the blog's ranking among search engines. It is more convenient for blog readers, because if the text of the message is long, then it will take up too much space in the friend feed, which is unlikely to please them. They will go to your page themselves if they are interested in the topic, but if this topic is imposed on them, they may be unhappy.

And from the point of view of search engines, it is important to understand the following. In order for your resources to support each other, it is a good idea to have in each message several hyperlinks to those sites or individual Internet pages to which you want to attract attention or which you want to raise in the search results. However, if these links are not removed under the cut, then on the first page of the blog, which usually contains 20 posts, there will be twenty links of the same type. Such a large number can be perceived by search engines as spam and will most likely result in de-indexing or downgrading. Therefore, fragments of pages that contain links of the same type must be removed under cat. There they will not look so reprehensible.

If there is a need to insert a link into the text in the visual editor mode, then you should enter the text, then select it and, by clicking the "Insert / Edit Link" button, add a link to the desired resource in the pop-up window that appears. And if in the visual editor mode, a copied piece of text is inserted that already contains a link, then this link is saved when you paste it.

If you need to insert HTML tags, it is recommended that you first switch to HTML mode and add these tags in it. Otherwise, they will be perceived as regular text.

After entering the message, you can already send to the blog, but for a fuller use of the blog's capabilities, I recommend taking a closer look at all the fields located below the body text field: “Tags”, “Mood”, “Where are you now”, “Music”, “Comments”, “Hide”, “For adults”, “Recording is available”.

"Tags"

Be sure to fill in the "Tags" field. These are keywords. First, they will allow users to find your blog when they need to find materials on a specific topic. Plus, tags are usually indexed by search engines, and not just on your blog. They are collected on separate pages LiveJournal and a considerable number of various Internet resources. All these resources are visited by spiders and have separate addresses on the Internet. As a result, you get hyperlinks to your blog from a wide variety of addresses, what will help in blog promotion... Try to include in the tags of your blog the words that you want to promote your blog by.

"Mood"

This section allows you to make your post more emotionally charged. Fill in at your own discretion.

"Where are you now"

Also more additional information for your friends about your location, it is not necessary to fill out.

"Music"

Like the first section, for a more expressive post, indicate and listen to in this moment musical composition.

"Comments"

Depending on which option you choose, it will be established who you allow to comment on your posts, and if you allow at all. By default, comments are open to everyone, unless you set other rules when setting up your blog.

"Hide"

Allows you to hide comments - all or by certain parameters.

"For adults"

Here I think everything is clear. Censorship to restrict access to adult content.

"Recording is available"

This field allows you to make the entry visible to everyone, either only to those added by the account owner to his list of friends, or generally only to the journal owner. Everything. whose access level does not allow to see the recording, they will not be able to see it and will not even be unaware of its creation.

After filling in all the required fields, it remains to click the button "Send to Journal Imprint", m your blog entry will appear. This entry will have its own internet address. That, in fact, is all that needs to be done to start blogging on the internet.

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Apparently it is worth at least once to describe what LJ is for those who have never encountered it. Many who are not part of the LiveJournal community can not grasp for a long time what it is - LiveJournal? Why is he? Who is leading it and how does it all work? When someone asks me, every time I start to explain, then I myself get confused, get carried away with details and go to other steppes. In my opinion, all these confused explanations must somehow be put in order and laid out, so that newcomers have a place to start.

So, what is LiveJournal, aka LJ, aka LiveJournal, aka LJ?

LJ is a unique online community of people who love to think. These people think often and a lot. In the process of thinking over various life phenomena, emotions, opinions, conclusions, ideas and much more are born in them. Some of this endlessly and non-stop flowing stream is quite possible to put into words. Some of these words people do not want to keep to themselves. Some of what they do not want to keep to themselves, they want to fix somewhere where it will be stored. Also, for example, how the Mesozoic mosquito is stored in an amber drop for millions of years, and is stored until surprised scientists find it in Egypt and pick it out with fine needles so that from the DNA preserved in its tissues to recreate exactly the same mosquito in ours time to breed it already in our time, so that new mosquitoes rebuild here what killed the old mosquito millions of years ago. Perhaps I'll write about it in LJ, but we are somewhat distracted. However, we will consider this an illustration of the very thoughts recorded on paper. Go ahead.

So, we have some thoughts that, because of congenital sclerosis or because of an ambitious desire to capture our thoughts for centuries, we want to write down somewhere. Theoretically, our brilliant thoughts can be written down in a paper notebook and put in a nightstand. This option has its advantages and many do so. But even these madmen clearly understand that sooner or later mom will throw this diary into the trash, grandmother will give it to grandfather to read, and dad may even let it roll. Moreover, paper is short-lived. And what is the point of keeping a diary if he is destined to die sooner or later? Have you seen a lot of diaries that young ladies kept in the 19th century? Almost all of them disappeared in the haze of time.

Therefore, after the Internet was invented, after some time the unforgettable Brad Fitzpatrick thought: "Why not keep and keep a diary on the Internet?" And then I registered the site and started programming the engine of this site. This is how a brilliant idea was born. He decided to call his website LiveJournal and, accordingly, registered it at www.livejournal.com. With this site, people were able to keep their thoughts for a little longer than a year or two. For example, this entry was made in 2002 and slightly revised in 2010. That is, it has been stored for 8 years, and the paper diaries of those times have turned yellow.

By the way, this is another plus of the online diary - you can correct your entries. Moreover, this is done a little easier than scratching out the phrase "Masha is such a fool!" On paper with a razor and then writing over it "I was a fool, and Masha was cool!"

And so a community appeared, consisting first of only a few diaries, then of several dozen, then hundreds, then thousands. Today, LJ has millions of diaries kept by people of all nationalities and religions.

Why do you ask the "Live" diary in perplexity?

Well, a reasonable question. Imagine that each of the millions of writers leading their magazines every second shares with the world around them their joys, sorrows, revelations and secret fantasies. Moreover, the exchange of thoughts is really similar to a living organism. Each of us not only keeps his own journal, but also reads other people's magazines. Isn't it a joy to spy on what your friend or neighbor wrote today or yesterday? Moreover, in LJ you can not only look at a friend's magazine, but also spy on a stranger's magazine. Depending on the wishes of the owner of the diary, you may or may not be able to read his diary. If the owner allows (in the settings there is such an option) to read his diary to all strangers, you can easily open his journal and not only read all his thoughts over the past 10 years, but also easily answer him to any entry.

Let's say you went to the journal of your friend or classmate. And he, for example, on Monday morning already managed to write: "Eh, it would be nice to have a beer today!" You answer him - right in his journal and right under this entry you answer: "You are an alcoholic, Vasily Apollinarievich!" Then, of course, he quits his job and answers you under your answer everything that he thinks about you and about all your hobbies, including marijuana, higher mathematics, building anthills and composing hymns. Then you answer him, and he - again you. This is how the conversation is built. Conversations last for many pages and for many years. The comments on this post are also conversation. If you scroll down this page - you will see that it has been going on for eight years - there is a date and time next to each answer.

Replies to posts are called "comments" or, more simply, "comments". Both the recording itself and the comments to it are seen by everyone you allow - you, your friends, or completely unfamiliar people who just looked at the light. All of them can answer any of you at any time, or just on the sidelines - in their own or someone else's diary - write something about both of you.

In each post and in each answer, you can insert not only text, but also links to sites, pictures, videos, music files and whatever you want. Diaries - or, in other words, blogs - of popular personalities, for example, Artemy Lebedev (tema.livejournal.com) or Anton Nosik (dolboeb.livejournal.com), are dotted with thousands of comments from zhezhists of all stripes and options - from the most enthusiastic to angry - three-story. All this is quite common for LJ.

If you do not like intrusive attention, you can keep your journal so that no one sees it. Even friends. Then it will be like your paper notebook, only on the Internet, so your grandmother will not find it. At any time, you can make any entry open to everyone or to your friends. "Friends" in LJ are those users whom you have added to your friend list. That is, as soon as you said - this is my friend! - and pressed the corresponding button - this person can see your entries that you have marked "Only friends can read".

Of course, when you do not know what to write in your diary, you can go through the diaries of your friends or simply through any open diaries and see what is new and interesting happening in the world and in LJ. This is very easy to do. Any friend of yours can log into your journal to find all public entries there.

If this morning you wrote something like: "The world is still unjust - a spider has a four-chambered heart, like a man's, and there are not two, but eight legs! Why such an injustice?" - your friend, if he has time and you are nice to him, most likely, he will not fail to answer you that, they say, it's good that a person has only two legs, otherwise, how long would you have to cut your nails? This clever comment could be answered not only by you, but also by your friends. In the end, it would turn out to be an interesting scientific dispute, completely recorded in your journal on one page, where it will be kept for as long as you want. At any time, you can delete any comment, an entire conversation (comment thread), your entry with all comments, or your entire diary in general.

It will be a pity if you find yourself one of those fools who, in a burst of a minute splash, deleted a magazine with a thousand entries, and then cried bitterly that a huge period of their life with thoughts, emotions and ideas had sunk into oblivion. Now LJ is arranged in such a way that the journal is not deleted immediately, but lies in a secret place for another month or two. This saved a lot of diaries.

In LJ it sometimes happens that user groups are united into communities of interest. Such groups are called communities. For example, those who like to read books post reviews in the Ru_Bux community. Each community has its own separate journal. In general, this is exactly the same diary, the only difference is that any member of the community can post entries in the community diary. That is, this is a diary of many people at once.

You can join any community. That is, enter the club of interest and follow the publications that are placed in the magazine by other members of the club. You will have the opportunity to publish your notes there, or just read other people's, without joining the club and remaining an outside observer. Culinary or car enthusiasts, cactus lovers and Chinchilla Girls, builders and businessmen - there are so many communities that the eyes run wide. Many Russian and foreign companies have their own LJ communities, in which they try to attract clients and fans.

For example, when I was writing this post, the most popular communities in LJ were the communities "Ru_sex" and "Girls_na_diet". Later, a wonderful community "Give_darom" appeared, in which they publish announcements about things that people want to get rid of for free. From there I got a wonderful computer desk, which served me faithfully for many years, after which I myself gave it to other users.

Of course, as a diary owner, you can organize your own hobby club yourself. Pick any topic and go. For example, no one has yet created the Society of fans to inflate airships. By the way, some users join LiveJournal just because they participate in communities. They do not keep their diaries and do not read the diaries of friends.

Each LJ user has a page with your profile (and face). There you can find information about yourself, your interests, pictures and much more. There you can also post the rules for commenting entries in your diary. For example, prohibiting swearing in your diary or prohibiting writing to those who believe that prohibiting swearing is snobbery.

You can often come across rules like "If you do not like what I am writing, gather in columns and go to ...". Or "Only people from planet Earth are allowed to comment in my diary." If you want to describe your interests, this can be done briefly, for example, "I like to think" or "dig", or it can be long and boring (as I like to write). Then, simply by clicking on any "interest" with the mouse, you can easily check whether someone else loves to dig or you are the only one so smart.

For added glory, you can assign yourself an avatar. An avatar is not a movie, but a small small 100 x 100 pixel picture that represents you or your spirit while you are hovering somewhere. This picture can sometimes tell a lot about the owner of the diary. Some put their portrait there. But if you don't need extra glory, any image that most closely matches your Ego will do. For example, a dog or a flower will do. Ax, rainbow or eye. Pictures are often very interesting. What will be on your avatar is up to you.

You are the author of your diary. You can customize it according to your tastes. Paint, paint, disfigure or turn into a masterpiece. There are many ready-made options. The content of your diary can also be anything. Narrowly thematic or broadly public. Political, automotive, musical or mushroom. You can write at least one word a year, at least a thousand pages per minute. There are no restrictions. There are paid versions of the magazine with advanced features, but the free version is enough for the absolute majority. In order not to forget or lose anyone, you can bookmark your friends' magazines or any interesting comrades from different countries and cities. And then open them with one click. This is how it all works.

By the way, you can meet especially interesting friends in real life, go to cafes, and maybe even to restaurants. Acquaintance "in real life" after correspondence in LJ is a very common thing. The author of this post is personally acquainted with many ZheZhysts. But, of course, you can never meet with anyone, and you can limit yourself to just posts or comments. Numerous friendships, cohabitations and marriages of people who met in LJ are known. In the early years, when the magazine had just appeared, we all went to the same places (in Moscow, the most famous meeting place was PND - Cafe "Pirogi" on Dmitrovka) and we knew each other by sight.

People write their diaries, read strangers, comment and all this every day, from year to year. The magazine boils, seethes and lives its own life. This is indeed a very lively Magazine. Gossip and rumors circulate on it, someone deletes their magazines, someone comes to you in some unknown way and adds your magazine to their bookmarks. And you, having found an interesting person, add his magazine to your list of friends. And so - ad infinitum! People write their thoughts, post pictures, send links to interesting sites, discuss the latest news and philosophize about everything in the world.

All this is difficult to describe, but for greater clarity, you should just go to LJ and read a few entries and comments to them. Try to write something to any LJ user. For example me. Directly under this entry at the very bottom there is a window into which you can insert a couple of words and click the "Save" button. Just like in my journal, in most journals you can leave a comment even if you are not a registered user. If I and other users answer you, all this may seem extremely exciting and interesting to you. Or maybe not.

LJ should be perceived more as a part of life than as a part of the Internet. Keeping a diary is both very personal and very public. To what extent is one thing, and to what extent - another is up to the owner of his magazine. Since 2002, LJ has become an integral part of Runet (the Russian part of the Internet) and now there are almost no people left who still (as one of the commentators writes) widens their eyes in surprise at the word “LJ”. But even if everyone knows well what LJ is and what it is eaten with, this entry will hang here as long as my journal exists.

Welcome to LiveJournal!

Yours sincerely,
Mikhail Lyufanov,
aka LJ user Mycroft