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'''LiveJournal''' is a [[website]] where some [[Internet]] users keep a [[journal]] or [[diary]]. It is one of many sites that come under the term [[blog]], or ''weblog''. The software running the site is [[open source]]. What distinguishes LiveJournal from other blog sites is the "Friends page", a list of the most recent posts from people a user has added to their "Friends list" -- this turns LiveJournal into a community of interconnected weblogs.

Like most weblogs, people can comment on each others' journals and create a [[message board]] style thread of comments -- each comment can be replied to individually, starting a new thread from every one. All users, including non-paying users, can set various options for comments: they can instruct the software to only accept comments from those on their Friends list or block anonymous comments (meaning only livejournal users can comment on their posts). In addition, LiveJournal acts as host to group discussion boards, or "communities," encompassing a myriad of subjects. (For example, there is a community dealing specifically with Wikipedia [http://www.livejournal.com/~wikipedians/].) EachA usercommunity hasis thecreated optionas ofa creatingregular herjournal account -- either with an invite code or hisby ownpaying -- and can then by converted into a community account.

LiveJournal was started by [[Brad Fitzpatrick]]. As of October 2002, 732,465 accounts had been created, of which about quarter of a million had been updated at some point in the last month [http://www.livejournal.com/stats.bml]. Between them, these users make about 120 thousand individual posts per day.