Yeah, but what about the gossipy posts?
What's the point?
What do they each have to gain from each other? Being under one (incredibly awkward) email address?
Maybe the two of you can merge with hirhurim too, and make a super-duper extra large blogorama.
baruch dayan ha-emeth
reshimu?
What impact does this seforim readers (as opposed to those who are habitues of traditiononline.org)?
Nope, RRB, no plans for a new Reshimu. While we hope to expand the services of Tradition Online (beyond our complete archives, etc...), incorporating a dozen blogs is not one of them.
Assuming freedom of speech for Dan and co., what will happen should someone at the RCA decides that Steinschneider doesn't deserve a decent reburial (link) or perhaps that racy images (link) should not appear on an RCA web site?
Or is this somehow not a problem/ concern?
In any event, חזק ואמץ to one of the very best blogs!
Can we still access the seforim blog at www.seforim.blogspot.com?
I don't see how this will work. seforim blog is interesting precisely for the same reason that Tradition is boring, the CONTENT. With Tradition running things, how much censorship can we expecct? Right now they say that Dan is running things, but what happens when something is posted that someone at the RCA doesn't like?
Again, what does seforimblog have to gain from this deal?
Can someone provide some explanation of how this improves the seforim blog?
I assume that it takes a good deal of time to run the blog, and this way Tradition will do some of the work.
In the next stage, will seforim blog only be open to paying subscribers?
I wish you lots of luck and hope that the move will not affect the high standard of the seforim blog.
I wonder what will happen first-
free Tradition online
or seforimblog charging to read the blog.
I found this email from Dan, back in January, that he sent to his list-serve about becoming adopted by a Jewish organization.
He wrote that besides maintaining exclusive control over content, he will be receiving:
a) technical support to make our posts more efficient and aesthetically pleasing, especially in Hebrew
b) increased editorial help to help handle the growing burdens on the current editors
c) greater exposure for the blog, which will in turn further increase readership and contributors
Makes a lot of sense to me.
To answer a couple of questions:
- TSB will always remain open and free to the entire public
- We have followed Seforim blog for a long time, have enjoyed its contents, and trust Dan R's judgment in giving him COMPLETE editorial control.
- All future posts will be made at the new site, Seforim.TraditionOnline.org
THe comments section is at least a day behind, not instantaneous. Looses a lot of the excitement...
I actually like the look of the new site a lot. Just keep up the great content.
Rabbi Dr Frimer - The comments section on the new site is instantaneous, just like on the old one. However, people are still (reasonably, out of habit) making comments (for example, on your recent piece) on the old site, which we have had to import via our tech support.
This problem will obviously be solved with the upcoming posts, since they will only be posted on TSB.
Also, everyone is welcome to simply start writing their comments on the new site, which will help the integration process. Thank you.
It looks like Tradition posted on its home page an article by Dan as its featured article. I think the featured articles are free.
All of these comments have now been imported to the new site. May I kindly request that we continue to post comments there? Thank you.
Can I access Tradition through ant databases?
This has always been one of the "Big 3" Jewish blogs, and probably the most impressive in terms of scholarship. But the beauty and charm of blogs lie in their independence. Affiliation with a larger corporate body is often the kiss of death for blogs. I hope that doesnt happen here. BTW, when this site is opened as another window ( ie, small pane size) the typing does not automatically end at the end of the line. Try it, you'll see it's not very pleasing. Can that be fixed?
In honor of the adoption of Tradition Seforim Blog, Tradition Online is offering, for a limited time only, a reduced price of $15 for a 1-year, online-only subscription to Tradition. This will entitle you to complete online access to upcoming issues as well as all 50 years of the Tradition archives. To subscribe, simply go to the Subscriptions link on the TraditionOnline.org sidebar, choose the 1-year online-only subscription option at the bottom of the page, and when you get to your shopping cart, enter the promotional code: Seforim. The price will then be reduced to $15. TSB will remain open to the public for free, and will always remain that way. Rav Soloveitchik's Tradition articles, by the way, are also free to the public - see the bottom of the Archives page. This now includes The Lonely Man of Faith. The books of interest section, as well as a selected "feature article" on the home page, are also fully accessible to the wider public. The current "featured article" was written by Dan Rabinowitz.
DF - what are the other "big blogs" you have in mind?
"Rav Soloveitchik's Tradition articles, by the way, are also free to the public..."
Why are only Rav Soloveitchik's articles available free-of-charge? It seems that in posting Rav Soloveitchik's articles for free-of-charge, Tradition, TraditionOnline, and the Rabbinical Council of America (RCA) are in fulfilment of the Talmudic dictum, as recorded in Bechoros (29a), among other places, that "Mah ani bechinam af Attah bechinam." Surely it can be argued -- barring, of course, requisite administrative costs for creation of and website upkeep -- that the same can and should be said of the rest of the articles that have been published in Tradition.
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