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these spaces is quite different: LiveJournals/diaries and mailing lists are very
personal; one sees things as they happen, and can immediately reply, input
and interact. Mailing lists will have a specific theme, fandom or pairing, and
the authors email is sent directly to other fans’ email inbox. Diaries and
LiveJournals are very interactive online journals, and networked.
Archives are very different; already finished or simple databases into
which creators can input their
works, they are more
impersonal: They usually
involve many authors,
genres, characters and/or
situations. Sometimes they will
Figure 2-The Smallville Slash Archive
involve different fandoms on the same web space. They will often carry the
authors’ email contacts, but function in a more passive way, very similar to a
library.
In a way, LiveJournal has moved the concept of an online diary from a
private domain published publicly to a tool encouraging networking.
LiveJournal is based on an open source code, a code published publicly and
free to others to experiment with, add on to, or simply utilize. Consequently,
many different journal domains emerged, utilizing the LiveJournal code.
LiveJournal was still seen as the best domain, as it not only is free of
advertisements, but at that time was also not completely open to a full public
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