Below are the most recent 2 friends' journal entries.

Thursday, August 21st, 2008
icelator	9:29p	Thank You Thank You Warner Brothers. Thank You Christian Bale. Thank You Christopher Nolan. Thank You anyone involved in making the Dark Knight. I've seen your movie twice since it came out and both times it was wonderful. I will buy the DVD when it comes out because this is worth owning. Thank you for making such a good movie and for following the characters so truly. Thank you for not having Batman kill the joker this time, and most important of all thank you for handing the MPAA its ass.   Thank you for showing that what they are saying about downloading is wrong. This movie proves it. I am not disputing legality or morality I am talking about how they say the lose money every day because people download movies and that it is hurting the industry. Well the fact that The Dark Knight has reached the No. 2 slot on highest grossing films of all time and will almost definitely top 500,000,000 in monetary gain and it is still possible for it to top Titanic (long shot I know) proves that the best way for you to make money, the best way for you to get people into theatres and away from the computer screen is to, and pay attention now, is to stop making shitty movies and start making good ones. This movie is doing well for 3 reasons first it’s Batman, second It’s good and third thanks to the first movie people have reason to expect it to be good.   So next time you make a movie remember Dark Knight and instead of making a movie that marketing people write for you or another in a long line of stupid movies (Epic movie, Scary Movie, anything American Pie related) let a qualified writer and decent actors be things that sell your movie and it should do well.   From someone who downloads but will still pay money for things worth seeing. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, August 14th, 2008
news [ theljstaff ]	4:59p	Basic Accounts, India, and LiveJournal Inc. Development Goals and Basic Accounts Last week we updated our development goals for 2008. Generally we noted a number of cool enhancements and investments to LiveJournal that we are working on, including improved search, usability, and site development. We also wanted to let you know how we hope to accomplish all these things, and how we plan on paying for them. In order to accomplish our stated goals for this year and beyond, we need to increase the revenue gained from both groups of LiveJournal accounts: paid subscription accounts and ad-supported accounts. As of August 28th, all users will be able to choose to downgrade their account to Basic through their Manage Account page. Additionally, we will start showing advertising to visitors who are not logged in to LiveJournal when they are looking at Basic Account journals and communities. Basic Account users themselves will not see ads on any Basic journal or community while they are logged in to their account. If you want more information about this, take a look at our new post on lj_2008 where we outline our reasoning. Indian Flash Fiction Contest In other news, we are excited to tell you we've launched "Quick Tales" LiveJournal's first initiative for users in India, in celebration of India Independence day, August 15th. "Quick Tales" is a flash fiction writing contest in which we're partnering with Caferati.com, one of India's largest online literary communites. The contest's winners will receive some great prizes and it is open to anyone with a mailing address in India. We hope that users with an interest in Indian writing or just India will watch LiveJournal's india_writing community. That's where the finalists and winners will be announced, so keep an eye on it towards the end of September! If you're in India then enter the contest - if your story is slick and quick (under 500 words) then you could be the lucky winner! Meanwhile, back at LiveJournal Inc. We have updated and redesigned our corporate site. The goal of the redesign was twofold: first, to update the look and feel (Dystopia users will appreciate it!); second, we want to provide a destination for prospective employees, partners, and members of the press where they can access important information about the company. Kudos to our design team. (773 Comments |Comment on this)