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

[vettecat.livejournal.com]

I'd be interested in both, as long as the latter doesn't involve too many diaper stories. :-)

[introverte.livejournal.com]

I think it would be unnecessary fragmentation to have two blogs. Just put your (fully justified) parental pride behind a cut so only the interested will read it.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

I would definitely be interested in a community such as the one you describe.

As for the second blog, why not simply use this blog along with locked posts, LJ-cuts, and tags?

[530nm330hz.livejournal.com]

As for the second blog, why not simply use this blog along with locked posts, LJ-cuts, and tags?

1. So I can point my parents to the other one
2. So Heather can post to it, too
3. So that people who don't care about these things don't think I'm one of those annoying parents who keeps talking about his kids.

[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).

[michelel72.livejournal.com]

I've never had any complaint about your kid posts being mixed in with the rest of your posts; they're as relevant to me about you as your wit and puzzlement.

Unless you're considering an every-few-hours sort of thing (#40: Kids are asleep. #42: T is watching TV and A is running around. #60: We're having dinner now), I would think it would fit in, with cuts for longer posts and tags for those who want only that content. That doesn't answer the problem of allowing H to post to it without prentending to be you, of course.

Then again, using a different host or your own website risks losing those of us who tend not to remember to check more than one location (though the LJ syndication tools might help with that). The Bursteins seem to do well with posting the same content to each of their journals when they have items of shared appeal.

As long as you don't post content that will break my Friends page, I'm content for you to post whatever is going on with you! I mean, not every post on my Friends page will be of immediate import to me, and I am able to skim if I don't want to read certain content.

Along those lines: I might be interested in reading your religious/spiritual musings, but it's not as if I'd be posting to your prospective community personally. Unless you get a large-ish number of folks wanting such a community, I'd say keep that here, too -- for pretty much the same reasons.

Just one vote. (Well, two votes, kinda.)