Journaling is one of the main forms of digital communication on the Elysium, the other being IM. Each character has access to journals through a personal computer (or laptop at the top 2 residential decks) located within their rooms.

Blogging

Journals are located on an internal Elysium network contained solely within the ship. Each character has a personalized journal for whatever journaling or messaging wanted. Through the journals, characters can find out the owner's name and that's about it, unless the character offers up more information.

Journal entries in a character's journal are written in 1st person format. This means the character will be writing in it like, what else, a journal. This is not a place for 1st person oratory. That would belong in 3rd person in the elysium_cruiser community. Journals can be short or long, private or public, as long as it goes along with the character's personality. Journals must be in character, or IC, and posted in at least once every two weeks. We do prefer at least once a week. No activity longer than a month without a hiatus notice we will contact you or poke you through LiveJournal. If we get no response, you lose your character and must reapply.

Security of entries

By default, journals are public to the network. Anyone on the network can read these. Private entries are made "private" by making an lj-cut with the text as private with the level of encoding. For example:

<lj-cut text="Private // Barely Hackable"> privated text </lj-cut>

That would be a privated entry with a very secure encoding. The encoding would vary depending on the character's level of knowledge, as characters must encode entries themselves. Mind you, no matter how good your character may be at encoding, there is a likelihood that another character will hack it. So yes, hacking is allowed, as long as it is within the scope of your character's skill of course.. Also note that the Captain can hack any entry he pleases because he is, well, the Captain.

Comments

Making comments on entries is good. Very very good. It allows for two or more characters to interact without having to meet yet and a great way to get to know another character.

Like journal entries, comments can be filtered or partially filtered. Filtering is done by either putting a note that it's filtered in the comment or in the title of the comment. Just like journal entries, comments can be hacked.