Below are the most recent 2 friends' journal entries.

Thursday, August 14th, 2008
news [ theljstaff ]	4:59p	Basic Accounts, India, and LiveJournal Inc. Development Goals and Basic Accounts Last week we updated our development goals for 2008. Generally we noted a number of cool enhancements and investments to LiveJournal that we are working on, including improved search, usability, and site development. We also wanted to let you know how we hope to accomplish all these things, and how we plan on paying for them. In order to accomplish our stated goals for this year and beyond, we need to increase the revenue gained from both groups of LiveJournal accounts: paid subscription accounts and ad-supported accounts. As of August 28th, all users will be able to choose to downgrade their account to Basic through their Manage Account page. Additionally, we will start showing advertising to visitors who are not logged in to LiveJournal when they are looking at Basic Account journals and communities. Basic Account users themselves will not see ads on any Basic journal or community while they are logged in to their account. If you want more information about this, take a look at our new post on lj_2008 where we outline our reasoning. Indian Flash Fiction Contest In other news, we are excited to tell you we've launched "Quick Tales" LiveJournal's first initiative for users in India, in celebration of India Independence day, August 15th. "Quick Tales" is a flash fiction writing contest in which we're partnering with Caferati.com, one of India's largest online literary communites. The contest's winners will receive some great prizes and it is open to anyone with a mailing address in India. We hope that users with an interest in Indian writing or just India will watch LiveJournal's india_writing community. That's where the finalists and winners will be announced, so keep an eye on it towards the end of September! If you're in India then enter the contest - if your story is slick and quick (under 500 words) then you could be the lucky winner! Meanwhile, back at LiveJournal Inc. We have updated and redesigned our corporate site. The goal of the redesign was twofold: first, to update the look and feel (Dystopia users will appreciate it!); second, we want to provide a destination for prospective employees, partners, and members of the press where they can access important information about the company. Kudos to our design team. (709 Comments |Comment on this)
Sunday, August 10th, 2008
addme_emokid [ floated_foliage ]	5:45p	The Greatest Man That Ever Lived. http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/ii88/jamiecouture/DSCF0143.jpg This is a Jamie. You're possibly frightened right now. I'll give you the basics right off the bat. I'm a pretty effeminate guy. Hell, some people on my list are seeing me for the first time right here, and they're going "wait, wait, wait, Jamie's not a girl?" I'm wildly atypical for a guy who has 'settle down and start a traditional family' on their life goals list, but what can you do? If you have a problem with girly guys, you won't like me, at all. I wear make-up, I love girl clothes, and the only thing remotely testosterone-driven about my personality is how fiercely I protect the ones I love, especially girls. So, there's your fair warning. I'm an artist. I dabble in everything. I write often. I've been writing stories since the third grade, and I have a flair for the supernatural, teen noir, and romance. I also write screenplays. My greatest love is music, however. I spend almost all of my time talking about it in-depth, and I love finding people who care about it just as much as I do. I play bass guitar, and I'm a lyricist. I've been a part of a couple bands, but nothing serious, and that kills me, because music is the one thing I wish to pursue full force. Music is my life. Yes, there are lots of things I wouldn't mind doing, but none of them compare. I live in Wisconsin right now. I have since the first grade. Before then, I spent time in Las Vegas and Oakland, but Wisconsin was my place of birth. I really hate it here. A lot. I'm currently pursuing acceptance to Academy of Art University, an art school in San Francisco, for screenwriting. If this fails on me . . . I'm still going to get the hell out of here. Wisconsin is just doing my head in. I've got to get out. My LJ has a lot to do with my own personal thoughts. Unfortunately, I often suffer from really awful bouts of depression, and I let it known. I'm trying to get better, though, and things will be picking up for me by next year. But . . . I never know, with me. I'm wildly erratic. If you don't like dealing with depressing people, I'm probably wrong for you. I typically like to friend and comment artists, or people who are just genuinely interesting. If that's you, then we'll be best friends. (9 Comments |Comment on this)