I’m a little sleep-deprived, so forgive my digressions.
As discussed in the User Base Growth thread, content is key. New, fresh, and diverse content. Think weird, think wonderful, think outside the box - every new thread can be good practice or even an alternative to the blog (when it gets set up). I’m inclined to toss my experimental and half-baked ramblings onto the BBS and save polished submissions for the blarg.
Be weird
What you may consider obscure could be somebody else’s obsession. The weirder the better. My posts as of late have been the textual equivalent of Goat Simulator: covering wacky things in a whimsical, unedited manner.
Be informative
Introduce concepts to a wider audience. Find an underappreciated Japenese violinist trapeze artist act? Maybe you can dish out some background on the history of musical acrobatics in your feature post. Whatever you’re writing about, try to do it with the goal of teaching a new fact to today’s lucky 10,000.
Get sleep
Don’t stay up all night posting… or you’ll have no energy to do it in the morning. Make sure to get enough sleep to keep you going. (Wait, this section doesn’t belong. I think I should probably remove this part from the poszzzzzzttzzzzzzz
Next week, I’m about to do a set of content for my yoga community for Pride Month. I want to do a blog post about why I am an open ally now. It’s not all that weird but I think important for people to understand why they need to speak up on behalf of LGBT friends and show you are a safe person. I’d be interested in doing a blog post here about this.
It liiiiiiiiives I am reviving this thread, i almost made my own but i think i would prefer to wake this one back up. With the old BBS being shut down and folks being less interested in posts/news provided by the authors & contributors of old, discussions have been had about wanting to provide homegrown content and hopefully foster creativity, new skills, practice, etc. My wish is for these efforts to inspire new people to join our community, i see it as a potential digital makerspace, engine for social good and just making/sharing delightfully weird things.
Everyone’s contributions are valuable even if they aren’t executed at a high level. We can encourage and help each other, and i hope i’m not sounding like i’m wanting or expecting too much.
I absolutely love learning new bits of information, yes i’m that guy, and i figured i could pick out topics that i could expand on and present for conversation. At the very least i would like to use this place as an outlet for myself to improve my creative and technical writing, i love to talk if you haven’t noticed. I haven’t put effort in the past into presenting information in a digestible way so i hope you guys can teach me
Sound good?
Without getting into specifics here are some topics i’m currently mulling over that i need to do research on:
Youth/generational slang and memes. Not as modern as you’d think (I have a particular story in mind)
Experimental Psychology. Broadcasting flawed and bad ideas (Also have a particular person/ideas to do a write-up about)
Did you know? Interesting history and myth of a modern Texas symbol (Learned about something recently that would be fun to share, might visit a local museum to take pictures to accompany a write-up i’d like to do)
Evolution of a language and lost symbols (Interesting story of the late evolution/development of the Spanish language. This one might involve more research, i haven’t sunk my teeth into it fully beyond a late night wiki dive some years ago but this is the kind of esoteric shit i live for)
P.S: If anyone has a background on some of the above let me know. I could be more specific privately on what i’m looking to write about and i’m open to collaborating or receiving feedback.
I might not get to any of my brewing ideas in the immediate future but i do plan to develop them. What about you? Are there any topics or things you’d like to contribute or explore?
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I am reviving this thread, i almost made my own but i think i would prefer to wake this one back up. With the old BBS being shut down and folks being less interested in posts/news provided by the authors & contributors of old, discussions have been had about wanting to provide homegrown content and hopefully foster creativity, new skills, practice, etc. My wish is for these efforts to inspire new people to join our community, i see it as a potential digital makerspace, engine for social good and just making/sharing delightfully weird things.