# What is LiveJournal?

LiveJournal is an open source content management system, written mainly in Perl and utilizing MySQL as a database backend. By itself, it serves as a powerful content updating system. In other uses, it is the framework application behind many successful online communities, including LiveJournal.com and DeadJournal.com.

Under the employ of LiveJournal.com, LiveJournal was presented two People's Voice Awards from the The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, one each for Personal Web Site and Service, during the 5th Annual Webby Awards.