Three weeks?

[liv]

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 22^nd April – 12^th 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.

Post queue

1. The Books of Maccabees
2. Why has everyone gone to Facebook?
   2a... or Tumblr
3. My research and supervising a PhD student
4. Anglo-Jewry, politics, the Board of Deputies
5. Baking experiments

Comments

[wychwood]

Yeah, I actually worded that really badly, too! I think I really meant something more like "what do the Books of Maccabees mean in a Jewish context", how do they work, etc. Partly because I was explaining to someone else about the Torah and the prophecy books and the Talmud, etc, and was trying to work out myself how Maccabees would fit.

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...)

[liv]

OK, I think I can do something useful with that. Apocryphal books fit really weirdly into the system of Torah + Talmud + commentaries, and that's something worth talking about. Thanks for the suggestion and clarification.