The sky is falling, take #247
Jan. 6th, 2009 04:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jlhAs many of you know, I used to work in the media industry, and I still freelance there from time to time. So while the LJ layoffs suck, they are part of a much larger picture that I've been reading about for the past two months now. I mean, 850 people at Viacom! 5% of the workforce at Omnicom!
I know it sucks when friends are laid off—a very good friend of mine, the one who got me my last freelance job, was laid off just before the holidays with about three weeks of severance. But I just wanted to put the LJ layoffs, and the panic that seems to be resulting from them, into perspective. I don't think that because 850 people were laid off at Viacom that anyone thinks Nickelodeon is folding.
Backing up your journal is always a good idea, and I think we're all putting a little more hope on Dreamwidth than we were before, but yeah, it hurts all over in the media industry right now, and no one seems to know how to make any money actually giving people the services that they want, Livejournal included. It'll work itself out, because that's capitalism, but there's going to be a lot of chaos before it does.
In actual death news, Ron Asheton RIP.
I know it sucks when friends are laid off—a very good friend of mine, the one who got me my last freelance job, was laid off just before the holidays with about three weeks of severance. But I just wanted to put the LJ layoffs, and the panic that seems to be resulting from them, into perspective. I don't think that because 850 people were laid off at Viacom that anyone thinks Nickelodeon is folding.
Backing up your journal is always a good idea, and I think we're all putting a little more hope on Dreamwidth than we were before, but yeah, it hurts all over in the media industry right now, and no one seems to know how to make any money actually giving people the services that they want, Livejournal included. It'll work itself out, because that's capitalism, but there's going to be a lot of chaos before it does.
In actual death news, Ron Asheton RIP.
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Date: 2009-01-06 09:29 pm (UTC)Although I have to admit that the % of people being laid off from LJ is much greater than the % of people at those example companies - but still, that's no evidence that LJ will go.
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Date: 2009-01-06 09:42 pm (UTC)And yes, I'm with you. The sky isn't exactly falling on our heads yet, so I'm not inclined to be running around like Chicken Little.
Given my recent history with computers, I'm a little afraid to try to back up my LJ lest I accidentally delete it or something. Sigh. I have clearly lost whatever computer mojo I once had.
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Date: 2009-01-07 02:11 am (UTC)