Friday, February 29, 2008

LiveJournal Rounds Up Lessig, Dyson, Others For Advisory Board

San Francisco-based LiveJournal, the online blogging and social networking web site, said today that it has added Lawrence Lessig, Esther Dyson, Danah Boyd, and Brad Fitzpatrick to a new advisory board for the firm. According to LiveJournal, the new board will guide the firm in operation and development of its platform. Lawrence Lessig is a professor at Stanford, and founder of the school's Center for Internet and Society; Esther Dyson is a well known Internet investor and pundit; Danah Boyd is a blogger and Ph.D. candidate at UC Berkeley; and Brad Fitzpatrick is founder of LiveJournal, former chief architect of Six Apart, and is currently at Google.