Tuesday, January 6th, 2009...9:56 am
LJ cans 12 of 28 employees
[Edit: number of employees fired has been downgraded from 20 to 12.]
Awww, this sucks. Better back up your livejournal:
LiveJournal, the San Francisco-based arm of Sup, a Russian Internet startup, has cut about 12 of 28 employees — and offered them no severance, we’re told.
It’s a good idea anyway (if you care about your data), but this event makes it particularly important.
Some LJ backup tools:
ljdump – Python script, cross-platform. This is what I use.
ljArchive – Windows client. Probably what you want to use if you’re on windows.
Deepest Sender – Firefox extension for Firefox. Will sync all of your LJ entries to a local database. It won’t backup the profile data, icons, images or other goodies.
LogJam – GTK client, also available as an Ubuntu package. Go to “Journal -> Synchronize Offline Copy” to back up an entire journal.
LJ Book – Turns your site into a PDF.
ljsim – Perl command line tool. Saves posts, memories, graphics. Converts relative links to absolute. Creates contents page, supports http proxy.
ljmigrate – Python command line tool to migrate to other LJ-based sites (GreatesJournal, DeadJournal, etc.)
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