List of notable LiveJournal users
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Some users of LiveJournal, or the journals themselves have become famous throughout the years for their especially interesting content, including political commentary and anecdotal advice on subjects ranging from household care to aquariums, or because they belong to otherwise famous or accomplished people, including many well-known writers, graphic artists, mass media personalities, and programmers.
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[edit] LiveJournals of notable individuals
- Emilie Autumn, username bonnytymepyrate, singer and violinist in the victoriandustrial musical genre.
- Stacy Bias, username technodyke, high-profile fat activist and webmistress of the popular lesbian site "Technodyke".
- Nayland W. Blake, username naylandblake, American artist, educator and curator.
- Hanne Blank, username hanneblank (older, official, self-named Livejournal account), author of Big Big Love and Virgin: The Untouched History, editor of a great number of pan-sexual body-positive erotica books , active in the fat acceptance movement, also known for public speaking and a former career as an opera singer (note that her less official Livejournal account is more active than the self-named one.).
- Elizabeth Bear, username matociquala, author of The Jenny Casey Trilogy, Carnival, Undertow and other books and short stories.
- Big Poppa E, username poetryslam, poetry slam performer.
- Marty Beckerman, username martybeckerman, young adult author.
- Libba Bray, username libba-bray, author of A Great and Terrible Beauty and Rebel Angels.
- Poppy Z. Brite, username docbrite, New Orleans-based author of novels and short stories including "Lost Souls," "Exquisite Corpse," "The Value of X," "Liquor," and "Prime".
- Steven Brust, username skzbrust, author of fantasy and science fiction, including the Vlad Taltos series of novels.
- Svetlana Chmakova, username svetlania, artist and writer, author of Dramacon, The Adventures of CG, and other sequential arts works.
- Lucia Cifarelli, username luciacifarelli, an American singer and musician, currently a member of KMFDM.
- Eli Clare, username pitbull-poet, disabled genderqueer environmental activist, author of Exile And Pride.
- Bram Cohen, username bramcohen, creator of BitTorrent.
- Joey Comeau, username untoward, one of the creators of the webcomic A Softer World and author of the novella Lockpick Pornography as well as many published short stories.
- Charlotte Cooper, username charlottecooper, writer, fat acceptance and gay rights activist.
- Billy Corgan, username billycorgan, founder of the band The Smashing Pumpkins.
- Steve Corino, username corino, professional wrestler.
- John Crowley, username crowley crow, fantasy writer.
- Allison Danger, username allisondanger, professional wrestler.
- Kimya Dawson, username kimya_dawson_, musician and member of the band The Moldy Peaches.
- Sarah Dessen, username writergrl, fiction writer.
- Paul Dini, username kingofbreakfast, Hollywood producer, co-creator of the DC Animated Universe, which includes seven television series, and is now a writer on Lost.
- Roman Dirge, username taxidermied, creator of the comic book Lenore, the Cute Little Dead Girl.
- Diane Duane, username dduane, fantasy, science fiction, television series, and young adult fiction writer.
- Doris Egan, a.k.a. Jane Emerson, username tightropegirl, fantasy novelist and television writer (House, NUMB3RS, Smallville, others).
- Warren Ellis, username warren_ellis, British author of comics, novels, and television, including Transmetropolitan and Planetary.
- Kenneth C. Fish Jr. username whiskerfish, poet, author of four books "Ugly," "Nothing Knowing Nothing," "Apprenticeship," and "Revisionist History".
Barry Graham, username barrygraham, author of the novels The Book of Man and Before, also a poet, journalist and Zen Buddhist monk.
- Javier Grillo-Marxuach, username chaodai, television writer and producer.
- Chris Hero, username chrishero, professional wrestler.
- Emily Horne, username thisisfurious, one of the creators of the popular webcomic A Softer World and a talented photographer.
- Jimmy Jacobs, username jimmyjacobs, professional wrestler.
- Caitlin R. Kiernan, username greygirlbeast, author of science fiction and dark fantasy.
- Rhodri Marsden, username rhodri, musician and journalist
- George R. R. Martin, username grrm, science fiction and television writer, creator of the "Wild Cards" shared world book series.
- Christopher McCulloch, username jacksonpublick, creator of the adventure/comedy cartoon television series The Venture Bros..
- Vic Mignogna, username vivhingolino, popular anime voice actor and musician.
- R. K. Milholland, username kobold, creator of the webcomic strips Something Positive [1], Midnight Macabre [2], and New Gold Dreams [3].
- Momus, username imomus, British avant-garde musician and performance artist in the 2006 Whitney Biennial.
- Michael Muhney, username thewizrd, actor on the television series Veronica Mars.
- Cherie Priest, username cmpriest, author of the horror/fantasy novels Four and Twenty Blackbirds, Wings to the Kingdom, and Dreadful Skin
- Jimmy Rave, username xxxjimmyravexxx, professional wrestler.
- Samoa Joe, username xsweatpeax, professional wrestler.
- Elyse Sewell, username elysesewell, American fashion model, placed third in America's Next Top Model Cycle 1.
- Alex Shelley, username alexshelley, professional wrestler.
- Ben Templesmith, username ben_templesmith, comics artist.
- Karen Traviss, username karentraviss, science fiction writer.
- James Urbaniak, username urbaniak, actor known for his performances in American Splendor, Henry Fool, and Thom Pain (based on nothing), as well as in GEICO commercials.
- Emma Maree Urquhart, username srsbizniz, Scottish fantasy author who's first book was published at 13.
- Jhonen Vasquez, username chancrescolex creator of such comic books as Johnny The Homicidal Maniac, as well as the Nickelodeon television show Invader Zim.
- Ursula Vernon, username ursulav professional artist and writer of the popular Digger (webcomic).
- Ned Vizzini username ned_vizzini author of three young adult books.
- Liz Williams, username mevennen, science fiction and fantasy writer.
- Jamie Zawinski, username jwz, programmer of xscreensaver and founder of mozilla.org.
[edit] Notable people in Russian LiveJournal community
[edit] Politicians
- Boris Berezovsky, username platon-elenin[citation needed], a.k.a. Platon Elenin, exiled Russian-Jewish billionaire
- Konstantin Borovoy, username vvpu-com
- Alexander Lebedev, username alex-lebedev, a Russian billionaire, member of the State Duma, former KGB agent, and owns a third of Aeroflot, and is part owner of Novaya Gazeta
- Valeria Novodvorskaya, username vnovodvorskaia
- Evgeny Roizman, username roizman, member of State Duma, a poet, a publisher, a founder of the unique private Nevyansk Icon Museum in Ekaterinburg, a book-hunter and a painting collector; known most for his struggle against illegal drug trade.
[edit] Writers
- Sergey Lukyanenko, username doctor-livsy, prominent sci-fi writer.
[edit] Infamous LiveJournals
Other LiveJournals have instead gained notoriety for the infamy of their owners. These include:
- Taylor Behl, username tiabliaj, a seventeen-year-old Virginia college student found murdered in September of 2005.
- Ben Fawley, username skulz67, the alleged murderer of Behl, who claims he killed her accidentally.
- Jason Fortuny, username rfjason, a Seattle-area graphic designer responsible for "The Craigslist Experiment".
- John Dallas Lockhart, username ohbutyouwillpet, a 38-year-old Akron lawyer who was found to possess pictures of himself raping a four-month-old infant on his computer. After a profile on America's Most Wanted, he was arrested by the LAPD and U.S. Marshals Service in the Venice Beach neighborhood of Los Angeles and extradited to Ohio, where he gave a plea of guilty and was sentenced to life in prison in 2005; he will be eligible for parole beginning in 2015.[4]
- Esmie Tseng, username rockonlittleone, charged with murdering her mother. (She subsequently pleaded guilty to manslaughter in her mother's death.) Apparently she posted on her journal from prison via letters mailed to her friends. Her journal has limited public posts now, but previously public posts are available elsewhere on the internet.
- Rachelle Waterman, username smchyrocky, an Alaska teen who was arrested on November 19, 2004 for the alleged murder of her mother; her journal's final entry mentions the murder of her mother. (Her trial ended in a mistrial, and charges have been dismissed, although the state is appealing the dismissal.) The journal has since been deleted.
- Jeff Weise, username weise, a high school student in Red Lake, Minnesota responsible for the Red Lake High School massacre.
[edit] LiveJournals that have had an impact on the offline world
Some instances of LiveJournal having a wider impact on the outside world. These include:
- homeless_at_nyu. In 2004, homeless New York University (NYU) student Steve Stanzak gained nationwide attention. Stanzak had lived in the NYU library for eight months, being unable to afford the expensive cost of housing, and chronicled his plight in his LiveJournal. His weblog ultimately caught the attention of the media and school board, who provided him with temporary free housing and increased his financial aid.[1]
- interdictor. Michael Barnett, an internet company's crisis manager who witnessed Hurricane Katrina firsthand from a datacenter in the Central Business District of New Orleans and documented it in his blog, becoming famous virtually overnight.
- ea_spouse. In 2004, Erin Hoffman[2], the spouse of an employee who worked at Electronic Arts wrote an article entitled "EA: The Human Story" revealed the terrible working conditions at EA. It sparked a lawsuit which the employees won for $15.6 million for unpaid overtime. [3]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ NYU News (broken link)
- ^ "Programmers Win EA Overtime Settlement, EA_Spouse Revealed" Gamasutra article, April 26 2006
- ^ "Exclusive: Nicole Wong Reveals Identity of EA Spouse", Mercury News Blog, April 25, 2006. Retrieved on January 18, 2007.
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