I hear you on the copy(r|f)ight posts; although I'm a bit interested in them, they seem to be the new W*F*. However, they quite often have the OMG ITS TEH DEATH OF OUR RIGHTS WTF?!!11! whizz-bang interjected into them, which smooths out the annoying edges for me.

And I tend to really enjoy the copyfight stuff, because all the ivory-tower copyright/patent holders, the DRM-pushers and IP-rebels/insurgents (read: "pirates") are literally shaping the way our culture will move forward. I find that I'm entranced by any advances across the field, forward or back, and tend to follow it like reports from the field in an cultural battleground.

Since Xeni has her own site, it might have been better served up as a link to that, but the very questioning of a single blog entry is bordering on overanalysis. If Xeni starts posting about her grocery shopping, or some guy who cut her off in traffic, then I'll concur that BB has gone LJ. In the meantime, it was an article about a teh hawt geek grrl firing live ammo, so that's all good.

Everyone is going to have somes stuff that they like and some they don't. BB is huge compared to its beginnings, and there is nothing to be done about it. Without a BBS, and with little or no feedback about why submissions are accepted or not, it has turned from an interactive community into one that is consumed passively. And it is consumed on a big enough scale that, as Warren Ellis stated, they have their own "band manager" to deal with the biz and subsequent greenbacks. To take the "band" analogy further, each of us is free to determine for ourselves as fans if they're still the band we know and love, or if they've sold out. They're more mainstream than they were, but I perceive them to still be doing their own thing, so I'm still showing up to watch.