A note and a question

[fpb]

The reason why I have been publishing little recently except for quotations from other people's articles is that I am very busy. I am slowly and painfully getting my books and comics out of storage, building or rebuilding bookcases to house them, and redesigning my flat. I rarely have time to properly blog.

Now, I have a question. I regularly refer to this LJ as "my blog" and what I do here as blogging. However, few other people seem to. I have just found out that one of the most lively, intelligent, productive, and, dammit, attractive members of my f-list (stand up and take a bow, synaesthete7), runs a blog separately from her LJ, on a different site, and describes only that as her blog. So I would like to ask, do you see a difference between LJs and blogs, or are they one and the same thing to you? And if you do, where does the difference lie?

Comments

[camillofan.livejournal.com]

I regard a LiveJournal as a blog. Perhaps because I didn't know anyone here ahead of time (except synaesthete7, and her only as an acquaintance), I didn't experience myself as joining a web community when I set up shop.

Like synaesthete7, I had a Blogspot blog before acquiring my LiveJournal-- though LJs were obviously cooler, back in those early days of the millennium you had to either pay money or receive an invitation to get one, while Blogger was free.

Unlike me, by the time synaesthere7 got her LJ, she'd already posted quite a bit to the Blogger blog and, knowing she had regular readers, decided not to abandon it, but instead to use the respective journals for different purposes (or so she said here).

I won't put words into her mouth, but I'll bet she doesn't call the LJ a blog because she was already calling the other blog her blog (but if I'm wrong, I'm curious to hear what she thinks is the difference!).

[fpb.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the explanation - I was not aware of the background facts.

Now on a completely different matter. Are you able to read the Don Camillo stories in Italian? If so, have you ever read the conclusion to the Fear cycle - after the ending of the first volume? It was never translated into English. If the answer to either question is "no", I will translate it myself just for you. I have already once had the pleasure (and it was a pleasure) to translate a great DC story previously unavailable in English: http://fpb.livejournal.com/11412.html

[camillofan.livejournal.com]

I cannot read Italian and would love to read your translation of the conclusion to the "Fear" cycle!