Crowdfunding Project of the Day: Xanga is on the Brink of Death & Needs Money

Ah, remember the good old days of spending your precious online time on picking out a custom MySpace skin and updating your playlist status on LiveJournal? Xanga, another relic from that same era, is back in the news today with the announcement of a crowdfunding campaign to save the site from shutting down and relaunch itself on the WordPress platform with subscription-based blog hosting. If the site does not raise $60,000 to revamp itself by July 15th, Xanga will be forced to shut down forever. So far, as of 4:30 p.m. (EST), the fundraiser for Xanga 2.0 has raised $1,392 from 12 supporters. Meanwhile, the Xanga team has made their archival tools available to all members to backup their angst-ridden tween blog history, in case the campaign falls through.