LiveJournal stuff

[rhu]

I'm considering creating an LJ community and a second blog.

The LJ community I'm thinking of would be for discussing the tension between being an observant Jew, committed to halacha, and being a libertarianish egalitarianish enlightened social liberal. Basically a place for Jews who are weird like me but not weird like weird_jews. Would there be enough interest to make such a "community" (in the LJ sense) worthwhile?

The second blog I'm thinking of would be for kvelling about the kids. One of the things I feel horribly guilty about as a parent is that we haven't been keeping "baby books" the way my parents did for me. I think a blog would be a great way to capture those moments of parental pride, but I don't want to bore those of you who added me to your friends list because of my sparkling wit, food musings, or gripes about crossword puzzles. So I'm probably going to create it; the question is should I do it on LJ or does nobody care except the grandparents so I might as well host it on my own website?

Comments

[abbasegal.livejournal.com]

I'd also be interested in both. Regarding the second blog, does it really matter who hosts it? If you host it yourself then you have the standard tradeoffs -- you'd have complete control, but you would be responsible for uptime, bandwidth, etc. So instead of playing with your kids you could spend you free time keeping their blog up!

Though it might be blasphemous to say so here, there are other blogging platforms (e.g. blogger.com, many others) that allow multiple posters to a single blog. If there is something specific about LJ you aren't so fond of you could always use one of the other platforms...

Being even more of a Luddite, if you don't want things being completely public, and don't want to require grandparents to worry about getting an account on a given platform, you could also always go "old-fashioned" and make it a simple mailing list (like what Jen does for the missives).