because i like to pretend as though i actually have a voice

[rkt]

as found at liveavatar's.

Our goal for sponsored communities is to give businesses an opportunity to connect with their customers, give you special deals -- free stuff! -- and information. More and more companies are moving to blogging as a form of communication -- people are starting to understand that there's a huge potential for conversation, and they want to reach out and have that conversation somewhere where the tools are already built in, like LJ.

It does appear as though someone came up with an idea of viral anti-marketing

How many pages of no can 10 million users generate? Let's find out!
If you don't want more sponsored corporate anything in LiveJournalas seen here leave a simple NO in the comments to that post and then pass this on to your flist asking them to do the same.

Comments

[bluebuckeye.livejournal.com]

Damn that makes me upset. :-( As someone noted in the large number of comment pages, firefox has a great rss feeder so that you could have a journal elsewhere, and still syndicate most of your friends lj pages and view them roughly the same way.

nice icon

[rkt.livejournal.com]

i never made it through all the comments, so thanks for the tip.

i hope it doesn't come down to that.