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LJ is adding (has added) corporate sponsored "communities" (I'm sorry, a corporate ad-blog isn't really a community, even if they structure it as one, not exactly - but that is the code base it's using, anyway). And will be adding sponsored features also. They chose to post about it in ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
lj_biz rather than in any of the more common places (such as news), but they're still doing it (have done: the first such community exists).
Yeah, along with the Plus accounts, this goes well with the 'no ads! EVAR!' promise they used to have up. Anyway, it's created a fair furor. I don't care for the action at all; I wanted to let anyone reading who wasn't aware of this, know; feel free to ignore the info if you don't care (or go check out the new sponsored community, if you want).
Posts up so far are the first one and the damage control that doesn't seem to have quite worked. I've linked to the comment-on page so you can decide whether to be bombarded with comments - as I type this up, the first has more than 2400 comments, the second more than 500.
The FAQ for this is here, and isn't it interesting that they just told us about these when the FAQ currently shows a Last Updated value of "September 8th, 2006 (burr86)"? They just neatly slid it into the available links when they were ready.
lj_biz rather than in any of the more common places (such as news), but they're still doing it (have done: the first such community exists).Yeah, along with the Plus accounts, this goes well with the 'no ads! EVAR!' promise they used to have up. Anyway, it's created a fair furor. I don't care for the action at all; I wanted to let anyone reading who wasn't aware of this, know; feel free to ignore the info if you don't care (or go check out the new sponsored community, if you want).
Posts up so far are the first one and the damage control that doesn't seem to have quite worked. I've linked to the comment-on page so you can decide whether to be bombarded with comments - as I type this up, the first has more than 2400 comments, the second more than 500.
The FAQ for this is here, and isn't it interesting that they just told us about these when the FAQ currently shows a Last Updated value of "September 8th, 2006 (burr86)"? They just neatly slid it into the available links when they were ready.
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