For well over a year, I've been noticing a relative scarcity of posts on
pretty much every costume-related mailing list and bulletin board of
which I am a member (several dozen). Many of these groups, including
h-costume, were formerly very active. The general, noncostume sewing
groups are an
Lots of people on blogs.
From: Lavolta Press f...@lavoltapress.com
To: Historical Costume h-cost...@indra.com
Sent: Sat, August 6, 2011 8:37:22 PM
Subject: [h-cost] Where is everyone hanging out these days?
For well over a year, I've been noticing a relative
Which blogs?
Fran
On 8/6/2011 1:00 PM, Beteena Paradise wrote:
Lots of people on blogs.
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Maybe it was that so many costumers were at Costume College last weekend??
Would you believe that some of us are actually congregating on Facebook? Their
new Groups format is actually making things somewhat easier to chat about
Elizabethan costumes at least. Traffic and conversations ebb and
But I will agree that there is less going on with costumers in a
variety of costuming mailing lists. I kinda miss that, but it seems with
all the new technology out there, times change along with the various
formats available to communicate with.
Of course, blogs have been around for a long
I'm travelling right now, seeing costumes and dancing in all places, just
saw an amazing collection outside of Copenhagen. I'm planning to do less on
email groups when I get back and focus more on my blog and using it to keep
me honest and producing more reproductions and research. I find email
I myself can't seem to get into blogs or facebook (except to try to
promote my belly dance veils). Maybe it's just that I haven't a clue
how to find what I might be looking for. I am not interested in one
particular area of costuming so I'm not aware of what's out there.
What I have
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II find email groups are taking up too much of my time and its easier
to keep tabs on blogs and facebook for now.
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That's one thing I was wondering about. Is the enthusiasm for lots of
back-and-forth discussion waning because of the time it takes? Blogs
are very time consuming
On 8/6/2011 2:01 PM, Sylvia Rognstad wrote:
I myself can't seem to get into blogs or facebook (except to try to
promote my belly dance veils). Maybe it's just that I haven't a clue
how to find what I might be looking for.
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Maybe people could post links to their favorite blogs or other
The live journal community is VERY strong. It isn't a group reading a
journalistic type of blog. It is all of us reading each others personal blogs
and interacting as a community. These days LJ has been under a lot of attack so
some people are moving to dream(something that I can't remember the
I never even heard of this live journal thing. i know you said what
it is, more of less, but I guess I don't understand how it works. Is
it different from looking at a bunch of individual blogs?

Sylvia Rognstad
Costume/clothing design construction
Alterations home dec
Beteena,
I've read a fair number of LJ posts. I still think both LJ and other
blog formats work like this:
One person (or a group of people who have assembled for the long term
specifically to post the blog entries) posts on a regular and/or
frequent basis. The post is like a short magazine
LiveJournal is just a blog host. Members can join as many blogs as they
want and then comment on those blogs.
Fran
LavoltaPress
www.lavoltapress.com
On 8/6/2011 2:17 PM, Sylvia Rognstad wrote:
I never even heard of this live journal thing. i know you said what
it is, more of less, but I
On Aug 6, 2011, at 2:05 PM, Lavolta Press wrote:
snipNo one else has to respond to keep the blog going. And the formats of
Facebook and Twitter basically encourage announcements rather than
discussions.
I don't do Twitter, but on Facebook, there has been a lot of in depth research
type
I mentioned my two FB Groups that I enjoy.
On LiveJournal, I've got too many feeds and blogs that I enjoy, but one that I
think really helps feed the creative soul for costuming is DressDiaries
http://dressdiaries.livejournal.com/
It is open to anyone who wants to share how they created whatever
On 8/6/2011 5:17 PM, Sylvia Rognstad wrote:
I never even heard of this live journal thing. i know you said what it
is, more of less, but I guess I don't understand how it works. Is it
different from looking at a bunch of individual blogs?
LiveJournal and DreamWidth have the idea of Friends
On 8/6/2011 5:26 PM, Lavolta Press wrote:
Beteena,
I've read a fair number of LJ posts. I still think both LJ and other
blog formats work like this:
One person (or a group of people who have assembled for the long term
specifically to post the blog entries) posts on a regular and/or
frequent
On Aug 6, 2011, at 2:42 PM, Lavolta Press wrote:
But still, you can't post anything very long in any discussion. I'm a member
of a number of Facebook groups, and I ran into their posting length limit
immediately.
Quite true. It is more suitable for back and forth short chatting and sharing
Geez. I'm even more out of it than I thought I was. i thought all I
was missing out on was facebook and twitter (and texting). Now I see
it's Live Journal too. When do people find time to do all this
computerized social networking and have a life?

Sylvia Rognstad
Costume/clothing
On 8/6/2011 7:08 PM, Sylvia Rognstad wrote:
Geez. I'm even more out of it than I thought I was. i thought all I was
missing out on was facebook and twitter (and texting). Now I see it's
Live Journal too. When do people find time to do all this computerized
social networking and have a life?
No, it doesn't really work like that. All of my costuming friends on LJ, of
which there are many, post similar to a handwritten diary. So some days it is
about how they can't get a seam right and the next day it is about their cat or
whatever. (Some people have separate journals for personal
On 8/6/2011 5:23 PM, Beteena Paradise wrote:
No, it doesn't really work like that. All of my costuming friends on LJ, of
which there are many, post similar to a handwritten diary. So some days it is
about how they can't get a seam right and the next day it is about their cat or
whatever. (Some
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