• 18:52 tonite I am attending this in SF www.artandcopyfilm.com/ interested? #
• 19:58 @toddsiegel oh we are going to the 8:45 showing! #

• 20:39 heading out to Sugar Rush at 111 Minna in SF lots and lots of chocolates and pastries! 7-9pm w @alleamarya @alaw #
• 01:26 First daily post about #openbanking on silona.org I started with trust. because it is the keystone others will build from there. #
• 01:28 sorry @jonahhorowitz #sugarrush was tasty and packed. I ran into @kiwitobes there too! I dragged Mitch from TVBgone there too! #
• 01:50 @dictiondavies aw thank you! I had a great time! we will have to do it again and drag logan and phoenix too! #

Notes augmented

We've enhanced and de-bugged Notes. If you haven't tried it yet, now's the time! You can create a private note when you ban multiple users. You can also delete multiple notes at once. Lastly, paid users have the option to add a note (visible only to you) whenever you add or remove a friend (guaranteed to avoid embarrassing social mishaps). If you don't currently have a paid account, you can upgrade now! It only takes a few minutes and costs less than a bad shopping mall haircut (plus, it's way more fashionable)!

Product tweaks and bug kill

1. In another effort to zap spam, comments containing links from domains LiveJournal deems untrustworthy are now automatically screened
2. If you sign up to get notifications of the Writer's Block question of the day, you'll now see the daily question in the email notification, so you'll have a little extra time to ponder before you post. You can subscribe to Writers Block notifications here
3. The issue causing random comments to vanish has been fixed!
4. If you visit a LiveJournal page and get prompted to log in, you'll be returned to the same page after you sign in (Thanks, Dreamwidth)!
5. If you don't edit the timestamp for an entry at all, the entry timestamp will indicate the time the entry was posted instead of the time the Update Journal page was loaded
6. Comments with paddings/backgrounds render correctly within the comment box (and will no longer wrap outside the box and break frames/margins)

New FCK fixes rich text editor!

1. We've updated our RTE (Rich Text Editor) to FCKeditor version 2.6.5
2. When switching from the RTE to HTML editor, links for syndicated feeds are no longer broken
3. RTE now functions properly in Safari 4.0
4. An extra line/space will not be auto-inserted whenever you switch from RTE to HTML editor
5. The insert image link now works correctly in all browsers

LiveJournal Cares

We’re pleased to introduce you to lj_cares, a new LiveJournal community dedicated to raising awareness and funds for U.S. charitable organizations that improve the health and well-being of people around the world. Each month, we’ll spotlight a nonprofit that is making a significant global impact through medical research, public outreach, and/or humanitarian social programs. Charities will be selected in accordance with the U.S. calendar of national health observances based on a high rating (of over 60%) on Charity Navigator and global scope of impact.

In this, our inaugural month of November, we will celebrate national adoption month by offering a charitable virtual gift (priced at $2.99) to support Love Without Boundaries, an organization that saves the lives of orphans with life-threatening diseases and places them in loving homes around the world. LiveJournal will donate 100% of the proceeds from the sale of charitable vgifts (we'll cover the cost of credit card transaction fees). To learn more about Love Without Boundaries, please visit lj_cares and read about how they helped save Baby Kang and the Rainbow Twins from fatal illnesses, who are now thriving in nurturing families. You can purchase your Love Without Boundaries gifts in the Virtual Gift shop.

Papered in postcards

A couple of weeks ago, we asked you to send in postcards to surround us with LiveJournal community. Thanks for coming through! We've received postcards all the way from Germany, Finland, and Canada and from all over the US, including Texas, Florida, Alaska, Montana, Wyoming, Indiana, Hawaii, and Oklahoma just to name just a handful. We're thrilled with our improved decor.

Please keep the love coming for one more week by writing to Frank the Goat, Esq., c/o LiveJournal, Inc., 539 Bryant Street, Suite 210, San Francisco, CA 94107. Be sure to include your username, since we'll be drawing the names of ten random contributors next Thursday to win paid account credits!

Photos of the week

We have more dazzling images posted by talented LiveJournal photographers from around the world. We're hoping to span the entire globe, so please continue posting and tagging. Of course, you can also sit back and enjoy the view at lj_photophile.

You can see a sample of this week's gorgeous photos and check out spotlight communities and awesome user content after the jump!

Curtains

We thank you, once again, for joining us. See you next week!

• 23:03 Practice safe textuality! Don't twitter and drive per @alleamarya #
• 12:36 Wonderful breakfast w @bobbyfishkin he left me laugh in tears at the end w some improv beat poetry about saving the world and neurochemistry #
• 12:38 There are some people in this world that constantly come up w ideas 2-4 year before the #emergentmind does @bobbyfishkin is one of those #
• 15:33 HELP I keep redoing my prezo about openbanking! have you talked to me about it? what did you think was compelling? silona.org #
• 15:48 yes @bobbyfishkin we are trying to show people the new world waiting to be born - it is why our ide
  as are so similar b4 we met! #
• 15:52 okay I am creating a survey on compelling arguments in Openbanking. please help! ow.ly/BsAQ #
• 15:53 HELP Lazyweb!!! google adwords for #Openbanking? what would you purchase? #
• 15:57 I am promising to do an #Openbanking blog post every day for 2 weeks! nag me if I do not humiliate me if you must! #

• 20:43 Sometimes my credit giving has been called namedropping by insecure individuals @journchat #Q10 #
• 21:52 So current geekcrushes @debs @mikecotton @jeffjonas get your bootie on twitter Jeff! #openbanking #
• 21:54 nom nom making hot chocolate w miss @alleamarya who is in SF visiting... though I should be working on prezo for tomorrow! #
• 21:58 SNORT! @myrnatheminx @jgilliam @adrielhampton you guys are killing me!!! #namedropping #deeplyvexingquestions #
• 22:22 or RT messages u are in? RT @adrielhampton: #deeplyvexingquestions @jgilliam @myrnatheminx @silona Or retweeting your own follow fridays ... #
• 22:23 +2 for recursion! @jgilliam @myrnatheminx @adrielhampton @journchat #
• 18:27 pissed off about the lack of #transparency in the ACTA ow.ly/BajY #EFF #copyright #patent #
• 18:33 ugh more #fail on ACTA boing boing ow.ly/Bans and the Canadian view pt ow.ly/Bany #EFF #copyright #patent #
• 19:18 So anyone else see the amazing resemblance btn sidewiki and reframeit? somethin' smells stinky... #
• 19:27 whoops how was I not following @paultrevithick #identity #kantara Sorry Paul! #<
  /a>
• 19:52 #fail @drdigipol so mafia wars guys is a complete asshat and admits it ow.ly/Bb8T #

• 18:16 great article on gps data as super analytic food! @calte ow.ly/ASpn #mutualdataownership #dataownership #
• 18:59 @acce hey @kevinmarks said that we should meet and talk about #openbanking ? I am in SF until Fri Morn. tea? samovar castro? #

Earlier this week, tyggerjai and bunnikins stopped in lovely San José, so 2wanda and i, plus elmuchacho, met them for lunch at Morocco's Restaurant.  It was a lovely repast, from start to finish, and we were regaled with tales of high-flying Russians.

Saturday, Kim and i had brunch and conversation with syringavulgaris and blarglefiend at Scrambl'z, which is what you'd get if Denny's didn't suck.  Later that night, we headed to dr_memory and missionista's last hurrah party before the birth of their child, where i finally met illspoken, who is a delightful conversationalist.

Remember, if you come to town, contact me.  Then offer me food or booze.  Only good things can happen.

• 22:16 oof prezi is really expensive to do a private one... that makes me sad... :-( looking at other tools now - advice oh lazy web? #
• 22:29 awesome! RT @BurgessCT: @Silona see @privacyprof she has the list --- u 2 are meant to have synergy in the privacy arena #privacy #
• 22:29 will do! RT @digster71: @Silona Check out Librariana List @iBraryGuy #
• 22:58 going oonze oonze dancing tonite which is good Now to figure out where the blues dancing is in SF... #
• 16:03 hmmm thinking of playing hooky for an hour and a half for a @birite run this afternoon... anyone game? #SF ton of wk but so pretty outside! #
• 16:05 @debs aw sorry hon about the flt - get them to give you nettles tea! Big hugs! and such a great convio yesterday! #
• 19:54 THX @mongo42 also very upset that the biggest blow to abortion rts in a decade was from the democractic caucus bit.ly/3PcBky #

• 12:25 playing w prezi today to create an outline of current status of banking software for the pitch neat interface - let see how it does! #
• 13:15 Do you have a really cool twitter list I should follow? like #privacy #identity #librarians #banking let me know! either @ or dm me I'll RT #
• 13:16 LOL great minds :-) RT @Mlsif: Has anyone made a Twitter list for folks covering/following the health care debate #
• 17:12 Just saw a peregrine falcon on my walk to meet @debs at @samovar castro 16th and sanchez #

Billy O'Connell, Kristin Hersh's husband and manager, has coined the following term:

IMbush v. to interrupt or virtually 'jump' someone when you spy their IM status change to 'available'