This week I posted three proper entries related to online religion and two notes. The first entry was an introduction to this week’s Conference on Media, Religion and Culture 2010 with 15 abstracts. The second and a third were both about apps for mobile devices and Islam: an academic article and a piece from the popular press. The first of the notes was a list of article I added to my little database of articles, since I started it. In the second note I announced that I added the “like” button to the blog which allows you to “like” posts the Facebook way. I also added this option to this (my personal) blog and to my Kabbalah books/Sefarim blog. I didn’t manage to post anything on the latter this week.
At my Jewish Social Media blog I posted 8 short pointers to: NYC’ Social Media Schmooze, the Jewish Agency’s use of Twitter, about Twimprimatur, an analysis of Hillel’s Twitter use, the beautiful blogger award, a synagogue library’s blog, a job ad and SXSW’s PanelPicker for “Jewish Synergy: Social Media and the New Community.”
The 9 entry for my blog about/for Forestville mentioned who played at Sarah’s Forestville Kitchen and at the Off the Track Cafe, pointed to two articles in the local daily that had connections to Forestville, covered the upcoming election’s school bond and school board candidates and shared some Forestville related hits in social media.
On the personal side I raised the bar. I’ve been working out enough so I had to raise the weight I am using to keep it effective. As of now I am doing bench presses with 118 pounds and curls with 53 pounds. I managed finished readings a few books (Elbom’s “Scream queens of the Dead Sea” and Breslov’s “Outpouring of the soul“), but not writing up my reflections on them. Same with the movies I’ve seen, no time to write about them: Kick-Ass, Repo Man, Date Night, Run fat boy run. We’ve also seen Eat Pray Love in the movie theater, after which we had to have pizza for dinner. Saturday morning my brother-in-law arrived from Alaska and we had him over fro breakfast along with my mother-in-law and her husband. (I know this sounds more impersonal than it really is, but I prefer not to mention proper names in this public blog.) Saturday afternoon my wife’s grandmother arrived and we had late lunch with her and family in Petaluma. We closed the day the way we started it: with amazing blackberry crisps made from fruits picked by my wife and daughter around the place we live and work. Which reminds me of the pics of our daughter and our garden that were posted each day of the past week.
And the picture of the week of me from the other couch:
