On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 8:16 PM James Cook <jc...@cs.berkeley.edu> wrote: > > On Sun, 2 Feb 2020 at 02:42, Aris Merchant via agora-discussion > <agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 1, 2020 at 6:25 PM James Cook via agora-discussion > > <agora-discussion@agoranomic.org> wrote: > > > > > > Questions for anyone interested in Agora: > > > > > > 1. Would you be interested in seeing an Agoran newsletter? Not like > > > "Last week in Agora"; I mean something more carefully written and > > > covering a longer span of time. > > > > Yes. We've tried this in the past, and it's been great when it worked, > > but we've had repeated problems with low activity. The office was > > called the Reportor, I think. It has worked in the past, but it only > > works when someone is willing to take it on for a long period of time. > > For some reason, it needs more commitment than most offices to > > function. I'm not suggesting that you should be obliged to commit to > > run it long term, just making a factual statement about the historical > > trends. > > That's good to know. On the topic of long-term commitment: I'm hoping > that a commitment to the weekly summaries will be enough to make other > journalistic tasks feasible on a more ad-hoc basis. I've kept those up > for 3+ months so far, but might try to set up a rotation or something.
3 months is a long time; I didn't realize you'd been going that long. That pretty much cures any concern I had about commitment. > > Am I interested? Definitely. Will I actually do it? Almost certainly > > not. I've considered doing a "interesting proposals" summary as > > Promotor, but I inevitably fail to have the time. However, I did > > contribute last time around by editing the newspapers for publication > > on the Agoran blog [1], and I could possibly resume that task. > > > > [1] https://agoranomic.org/blog/ > > Editing would be helpful! > > I had been imagining the more substantial newsletter being close to > quarterly. Looking at that blog, it looks like at least some of them > had shorter periods in mind. Any opinions on the relative benefits of > different frequencies? We tried a week; that seems to be too short in practice. Perhaps monthly? I can see quarterly having advantages as well, but it'd be nice to see more than four a year. It's ultimately your call. I don't think anyone would quibble with your decision, given how excellent a job you're doing. We do need to start paying you for it though. > I've got about a quarter's worth of summaries so far, so it might make > sense for at least the first one to cover that time period, regardless > of any future frequency. > > Is there any way to find the blog starting from > https://agoranomic.org/ ? I don't think I'd seen it before. Nope! I broke the CSS at one point (now I fixed it), and then the newspaper fell through, and it stopped getting updated. I don't know how to add it to the header, or to add the header to it. I might be able to figure it out, or someone else could do it; it's never quite seemed worth it, given that the blog is dead, but if we revitalize it that would change. -Aris
