LiveJournal.com is a free service that allows you to create, customise, and keep your own personal journal, online. There's no limit to what you can do with your journal - it's all up to you. Personal diaries, news update pages, community bulletin boards - it's all possible.
Download the client that suits your computer - available for windows, macintosh, unix or beos computers - or just update via the web updater.
You could write your own client, if you wanted - LiveJournal.com is an open source project. The source code to the server and all the clients are available under various open source licenses, mainly the GPL.
Getting Started:
- Create your own LiveJournal
- Update Journal
- Download a Client
- Customize your LiveJournal.
Communicating, and community
- Edit your Personal information
- Edit your LiveJournal Friends
- Edit or delete old journal entries
- Group journals and shared interests
Technical Support
- Read the FAQ
- Request help in the support area
- Developer Information
- Contributors
um. i think the links - getting started, communicating/community, and tech support, need some reivision. i think the community side of lj can really be used to our advantage.... i don't bloody know. here. it's less wordy than before. figure it out. :/