Live Journal was sold off to a Russian company a few months back, and is now beginning to flesh out its high level positions, namely its board members. This is par for the course, especially when a company with a large existing international user base is already established, and the company moves from the hands of an entity in one country, over to another.
We mentioned Live Journal's appointment of its new board members, which includes Live Journal founder Brad Fitzpatrick, danah boyd, Esther Dyson, and Lawrence Lessig, and we also mentioned that Live Journal would be reserving two seats on its board for Live Journal users. Those Live Journal users that are interested in being a board member can click here for more details. This allows a smoother transition as Live Journal is now member to a new parent company, and of course, represents the interests of the users.
Live Journal will be holding two separate elections in order to make sure that the selected board members reflect a cross-section of Live Journal's larger user base. One election will be for the Cyrillic language users of Live Journal, and the other election will be for non-Cyrillic users (that boils down to a Russian user representative, and a non-Russian user representative).