Three weeks?
Apr. 22nd, 2013 10:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
I haven't seen any signs of people doing the
three_weeks_for_dw thing this year. If we were doing it, I think it would start today, cos it's usually the end of April and beginning of May, around the anniversary of open beta. So let's say hypothetically 22nd April – 12th May.
It's no longer really the case that DW is limited because people here aren't actively enough posting content; people who want to be here are here, other people aren't, and lots of people have drifted away from this type of journalling / community-based long-form blogging altogether and probably there's nothing DW can do to get them back. There are still basically no active communities here other than RP communities, but personal journals seem to be pretty solid, I have plenty to read, I'm meeting new interesting people and most of my posts get lively comment discussions.
This time last year, I posted about community building. Although I didn't do a formal Three Weeks thing, because I was a month from my wedding at that point, I have for the whole of the year tried to follow
siderea's advice and make more frequent "pointer" posts with links to other content. I haven't managed three link posts a week, nothing like, but I have definitely noticed that pointer posts do encourage discussion, and they do encourage me to post fairly regularly even when I feel like I don't have time to make a full, polished post. I was remarking to a friend recently that I love the curate / propagate internet less than I loved the original content internet that dominated a few years ago, but if that's the milieu we're living in, it certainly does seem sensible to participate in curating and propagating to the best of my ability.
Anyway, I don't want to commit to post every day during the Three Weeks, especially not if I'm the only person who has noticed the season, that really wouldn't make for much of a meme! But I would like to increase my posting rate a bit if I can, because I think that's good in general, and the season is just an excuse. In order to achieve this, I need to resolve to be less perfectionist, so I want to make some off-the-cuff posts, not waiting until I have a honed argument with lots of detailed citations (and ending up never posting half the things that come into my head).
What I'd most appreciate would be some suggestions of topics. Please comment with titles, questions, prompts, or just general topic areas about which you'd like a few paragraphs of my random opinions. And feel free to join in with any degree of challenge to post a bit more during the coming three weeks, you're very welcome to borrow my idea or not if some other motivation for posting more suits you better.
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It's no longer really the case that DW is limited because people here aren't actively enough posting content; people who want to be here are here, other people aren't, and lots of people have drifted away from this type of journalling / community-based long-form blogging altogether and probably there's nothing DW can do to get them back. There are still basically no active communities here other than RP communities, but personal journals seem to be pretty solid, I have plenty to read, I'm meeting new interesting people and most of my posts get lively comment discussions.
This time last year, I posted about community building. Although I didn't do a formal Three Weeks thing, because I was a month from my wedding at that point, I have for the whole of the year tried to follow
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Anyway, I don't want to commit to post every day during the Three Weeks, especially not if I'm the only person who has noticed the season, that really wouldn't make for much of a meme! But I would like to increase my posting rate a bit if I can, because I think that's good in general, and the season is just an excuse. In order to achieve this, I need to resolve to be less perfectionist, so I want to make some off-the-cuff posts, not waiting until I have a honed argument with lots of detailed citations (and ending up never posting half the things that come into my head).
What I'd most appreciate would be some suggestions of topics. Please comment with titles, questions, prompts, or just general topic areas about which you'd like a few paragraphs of my random opinions. And feel free to join in with any degree of challenge to post a bit more during the coming three weeks, you're very welcome to borrow my idea or not if some other motivation for posting more suits you better.
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Date: 2013-04-22 10:36 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2013-04-22 12:45 pm (UTC)I didn't mean it to be too researchy - I'd like to know how it looks from your perspective, as it were, because formal research is something I can do myself but you can give me a good impression!
(...can you guess what topic I'm presenting to the Bible study group on tomorrow...)
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Date: 2013-04-22 01:26 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-04-23 09:51 am (UTC)Actually, that's a lie; I probably will anyway, as I won't react to them the way you do.
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Date: 2013-04-22 01:05 pm (UTC)Why does Exchange crop up so often in the corporate world, in spite of its unspeakable awfulness? Because it has a somewhat tolerable implementation of shared calendars and early on, nothing else did it at all.
So, what's Facebook do that LJ/DW doesn't?
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Date: 2013-04-22 01:18 pm (UTC)Some suggestions people have done:
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Date: 2013-04-22 04:01 pm (UTC)You can add images to posts and to a file hosting space on DW by posting by email. But it's really primitive and it doesn't look there's any meaningful ongoing progress in actually fleshing out the features.
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Date: 2013-04-24 03:36 pm (UTC)The communities on DW are less active than those on LJ - communities are the only reason I'm still reading my LJ friendslist... though if they make the new friendslist with infinite scrolling and no opt-out I'll be gone from LJ.
Facebook is not suited for journal-style discussions, it's more like Twitter with more text and photos, I think. I don't have tumblr but I dislike their layout (too messy for me), so I'm not even going to try :P Hardly anyone I know has a tumblr account anyway (most people have Facebook and Wordpress).
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Date: 2013-04-24 03:47 pm (UTC)I don't know why communities never took off here. I think it's partly because there are better ways to interact with and find people and just form informal communities via personal journals than on LJ. But also because it's really hard to start a new community from scratch and build up enough momentum for it to feel like a vibrant place that will attract people to post. I still have some friends who are LJ-only, so I will be very sad indeed if they do force the infinite scroll friendslist on everyone.