Monday Music: Zepplin, 1975

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I should blog more Led Zeppelin.

Didn’t have time to get a Muted Monday together for today, so we’ll do Monday Music instead 🙂

I DID manage to get my Doctor Who review up at Part Time Monster (mostly) on time this week, and I have a very late coffee post, such as it is, at Just Gene’O. So, progress.

More here later in the week.

Weekend Music & Feminist Friday Update

I’d intended to do a recap/restart post of the Feminist Friday discussions at Part Time Monster today, but just didn’t have the time to get it together. In fact, I haven’t even looked at the blogs since Tuesday thanks to a combination of offline obligations and computer problems. I’ll have that post over the weekend because I want to get the discussions going again next Friday, but I have to get through one more day of work before I can even think about it.

I’ll catch up with all your comments over the weekend, and hopefully next week will be better.

Happy Weekend!

Feminist Friday Regrouping, Comics, and Other Updates

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I’ll just be totally honest and tell you we’re in a bit of a bind. Five people produce 90% of the content here. Three of us are in a phase where we don’t have time to blog, and a fourth has his own blogs to maintain. But of course we aren’t going a day without a posting both here and at The Monster if we can help it. So I’ll be posting a fair number of photos this week with the goal of getting us through to Friday. Now for the updates.

Feminist Fridays will resume next week. I’ll do a recap of the last round on Sept. 12. I’m hoping I haven’t let this sleep for too long. If you like the Feminist Fridays, and especially if you’re planning to write for it, you need to read the regrouping post at Just Gene’O and respond. It will be at the top of the page over there for most of the week. I’m moving all the coordination and the speaking directly to collaborators to that blog.
We’ll have something tomorrow to let you know where we’re going with the comics. We’re not dropping the comics because they’re just too much fun, and too well-liked.
I’m doing reviews of the new season of Doctor Who on Mondays or Tuesdays at Part Time Monster. Will’s reviewing them on Fridays or Saturdays here. Hannah is also blogging the season at Things Matter. If you’re a Doctor Who fan, you have a chance to get three different perspectives on the new season as it unfolds. You really don’t want to miss these posts if you love the show and read blogs.

That’s all. Have a great week. We’ll be back up to our usual tricks here before you know it.

Look Upon My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair

Posted on 08/25/2014 by Gene'O

We’re trying to bring this blog in for a landing and refuel it. Posting three and four times per day for months on end sets certain expectations. It’s not the sort of thing you want to just stop doing precipitously. I don’t want anyone to get the idea we’re retreating, because we’re not. If we were, I’d just tell you. The Sourcerer crew are people just like everyone else in the blogosphere. Content takes time to produce if you want it to be good. And it takes time to load. Our blogging is subject to work schedules, family obligations, and all the other exigencies of life. I’m sure you’re familiar 🙂

It’s clear that our peak blogging season is January-July, and the best use of our energy from August-December is to persuade all you cool people to stick with us, improve the quality of our blogs, and strenghen our social media relationships. Here’s an update on the features I am sure about at this point, because I think the best way to convince you to stick with us is to let you know what we’re up to. Things will become more clear over the next couple of weeks, but I’m posting this today because keeping you informed is one of my jobs.

Doctor Who

Will’s been writing about Doctor Who here off and on for months. I’ve got two posts from him to run this week, and he’s blogging the new season. Will and I have behind-the-scenes conversations about Doctor Who quite often, so this is not something you want to miss. We’re still working out the schedule. More to come.

Feminist Fridays

Returning soon. We’re working on setting up the next round of these. This is not something we’re willing to take a break from for very long, but Sourcerer is out of the social commentary business (aside from tweeting links) so the updates and coordinating posts will be published either at Part Time Monster or at Just Gene’O in the future. I am not sure which yet, as I haven’t actually discussed that part of it with Diana.

Wednesday Comics

Will be back soon, but Jeremy’s taking a break from Batman after a mightily impressive run. We’ll either have a Batman finale or an announcement about Wednesdays in the next week or so. I’m working on filling that slot, and I’m capable of doing it myself if necessary. David and I are discussing this one, but not to worry. The comics aren’t going away.

Listening to Music without Understanding It

Also taking a break, as David indicated in his post last week, but at the moment there are no plans to end it permanently. If you’ve enjoyed that series as much as I have, you should stand up and yell “ENCORE!!”

Blogging and Social Media

I’ll do these on Sundays or Mondays when I have something to share. This feature is dependent upon me learning new tricks and finding interesting connections between networks or in the numbers, so popularity really doesn’t come into it. Unless I have something useful for you, I have no social media post. I may move the social media blogging to Just Gene’O. I’m not sure yet. It’s very much alive, but probably not a weekly thing for the next little while.

Weekend Music

This is a fixture. It’s the first consistent thing I did on this blog. There’s no way I’m stopping it. It’s fun and easy and I know how many of you love it.

Photoblogs

Will also continue here. I’m wondering whether the “Wordless” posts are the best use of my photos. I have a ton of photos, but not an infinite supply, and it does take time to crop and tag them. I’m just thinking about this at the moment, but whatever I decide, the photoblogging will continue. Even though they don’t typically generate comments you are telling me with your likes and by actually visiting the photo posts that these are the most popular thing I, personally, am doing.

Open Threads

Will continue only when I don’t have anything else to run on Friday. On weeks when I can squeeze in a Follow Friday post or find a nice reblog, I’ll do that instead. I like to have open threads because you never know who might wander by and start up a conversation. I also like to give space to bloggers to come and ask questions about WordPress or give me feedback. But I can’t have very many open threads with zero comments. It makes me look like I’m not good at engagement, and *cough* we all know that isn’t true. I may still do conversation threads on Fridays, but most of them will not be completely open.

Thanks!

Of course there are features here that are not mentioned at all. That’s because I’m not sure where they are at the moment. As soon as I know, you’ll know. Thanks for the reads, comments, likes, stop-bys and conversations on other social media. This blog would not be what it is without your support.

I must say, that's a damn lot of features on that list. :-)

I must say, that’s a damn long list of features 🙂

Priorities

We all know I generate way more ideas than I can actualize. But I am really a very down-to-earth guy. I’m a realist at heart, even though I don’t show it in public very often. If I can only do three things between now and January, those three things will be:

Coordinate and promote another round of Feminist Friday discussions,
Blog the new season of Doctor Who Part Time Monster, and
Publish one good post a week at Just Gene’O.

If the price of me doing those three things is posting a “closed for the season” sign here and coming back in January, I’ll do it. But I think that will not happen. I trust the contributors. I expect we’ll be able to keep all the balls in the air. Because that’s what we do here. We juggle.

All the bloggers I interact with are understanding people, and none of them actually expect a post a day from the blogs they follow, so I believe that will be enough. I’m thinking about redesigning this blog later in the year, and I am also looking for a blogging challenge to join in January. I’m planning to blog at the same pace next year as I have this year, only slow it down a couple of weeks earlier. This blog follows the same sort of rhythm as tv series and professional sports 😉