Apr
12
“Three Women and a Silent Friend”
Sometime after the Livejournal star began to wane, in a last gasp of innovation, the company introduced a remarkable—or so it seemed in 2006—new feature: voice posting. One could dial a number, talk into the phone, and have the recording serve as a Livejournal post for the ears of friends and strangers alike. These recordings were also aggregated into a randomized feed that listeners could stream in iTunes. Yet, for many months, the “random” function was broken: the posts were all dated “11-03-2006.” It was a Friday night in November, and the callers seemed to be disproportionately female.
