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The disadvantage of LJ

With about a year's experience in blogging and commenting on others' blogs, I realized that LJ has one problem. Consider this: Suppose I go and tell my friends (non-geeks) that I have started blogg...

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With about a year’s experience in blogging and commenting on others’ blogs, I realized that LJ has one problem.

Consider this:

Suppose I go and tell my friends (non-geeks) that I have started blogging, it doesn’t interest them much because my blogs are filled with technical stuff, which they won’t be interested in. Now if I start blogging about non-technical things, I suppose my main purpose of blogging is lost.

In order to serve both purposes, LJ should have provided some provision to place blogs under different categories. Now all that I need to tell my friends is go to page http://www.livejournal.com/~gauthampai/life (this URL doesn’t exist. don’t try to open it) to view my blog. And if you are intend to know what I am interested in blogging about you may visit http://www.livejournal.com/~gauthampai. You may similarly have many more categories like this.

Is this feature already available in LJ? If so please let me know as I need this provision badly.

A good example is Chandan’s blog.