San Francisco Chronicle veröffentlichte eine Story zu Brad und seiner Story über Live Journal:
When Brad Fitzpatrick was 18, he had just relocated from Portland, Ore., to Seattle to study computer science at the University of Washington. Like most transplants, he wanted to keep friends informed about his life, so he developed a database-driven method of updating his online journal. Seven years later, his nifty little invention has blossomed into the 8 million-strong community known as LiveJournal, and Fitzpatrick, at the ripe old age of 25, has become one of the major players in the burgeoning universe known as the blogosphere.