New plan: a daily posting schedule

May Day 2004 was when I started my first personal blog. That's why I want to make a big announcement today while I'm not quite ready to implement this plan. It's inspired by @actifit's time limit. At first, I was annoyed that you have to post a report by the next day at the lastest. But I started to appreciate it recently. It helps me to post regularly without spending too much time on a single post.

But now fitness reports take up too much of my blog. I never intended to be a life blogger or fitness blogger. That's not really my strongest point. I gave up effortposting because I remembered what happened last time I tried to 'work in crypto', in 2018: blogging, trading and arguing on Twitter and Reddit was enough to fill a day, without doing anything productive. I'm not the kind of person who can post regularly in addition to a full-time job. On the other hand, I'm spending more time on Hive since I deleted the Twitter and Reddit apps from my phone a month ago.

Anyway, I decided to dedicate every day of the week to a particular topic. I won't be posting literally every day, but I'll gradually create this expectation that every day has its theme, and I'll disappoint myself when I need to postpone it to the next week.

Since I believe in the magic of coincidences, I've chosen to use alliterations for the daily themes. Yes, I know two of these aren't proper alliterations, let's not take this too seriously.

• Museum Monday. Let's start the week by appreciating beauty. I'll discuss why I love abstract art, showing examples from my NFT collection and my visits to museums. I also make conceptual art from words, and I've put off publishing it too long with the excuse that you'd need to see it collected in a big book to appreciate it properly.
• Crypto Tuesday. I considered calling this Token Tuesday or Tech Tuesday, but I'd focus on the technology and culture of cryptocurrencies anyway.
• Whatever Wednesday. It's not like I couldn't come up with a theme for Wednesday, but there needs to be a spot for random topics too.
• Tourism Thursday. I still have a lot of photos and some stories from my travels in 2017, as well as dashcam videos, and I should start posting them before I get back on the road again, six weeks from now. I might alternate this with Dutch Donderdag. Would you like to know more about the Netherlands or the Dutch language?
• Philosophy Phriday. This means I will be philosophizing, not just writing about philosophers. Anyone who can think should be able to follow this. There will be trolley problem memes too. (I could've chosen Photography Phriday, but I'm not a good photographer.)
• Socialism Saturday. Can't miss this opportunity to trigger the libertarians while honoring the movement that gave us the weekend. Don't take this literally, I'll remain politically unreliable.
• Songbook Sunday. I've been thinking about a Songbook series for a long time. I want to talk about why I love the songs I love. Can't get technical about the music as that's not my expertise - I'll focus on the mood and the lyrics in relation to the world around us. Might contain traces of socialism.

https://twitter.com/edbwt/status/1509257399269564417

- edbwt

Other people's art

This will come up in the context of Museum Monday and Songbook Sunday, so let's tackle it in advance. What do our spamfighters think about posts focused on admiring other people's art, while adding my own content? I hope I made it clear I'm not interested in lazily exploiting other people's work. Does it make a difference (morally, not legally) when I post an NFT I own? For edge cases, would you recommend sending 50% of the rewards to the DHF? Is this post already suspect because I used a parody of a famous socialist cartoon? I can't find the source, it's hard to search for black-and-white images.

Personally, I feel like having to ask these questions is already stifling my cultural expression. We can't live without memes shared freely. Intellectual property is theft.