Israel Stamp Reviews

Today was the last day of my school's winter break. I woke up feeling little in the way of pressure to do anything or go anywhere. Instead, I fired up the laptop and cycled robotically through the usual sequence of news and social media sites. Nothing particularly dramatic had happened while I was alseep. On a whim, I visited the Israel Post website to check if there was any information about next month's new stamp issues. There was not. There was, however, a new update in the "Announcements" section: " Country added for overseas delivery -- United Arab Emirates ." This was dramatic news. And seeing as no one else was covering it, I shared it via the Israel Stamp Reviews Facebook page . A couple hours passed and Niall Murphy of the International Moldovan Philatelic Society and FILABRAS replied wondering, "Who will write to who and about what?" It was a good question. Of the people living in Israel who had connections in the UAE, how many sti...

Hobby , identity and community are distinct but closely related concepts. The distinction is one of experience: a hobby is a thing we do, an identity is a thing we have, and a community is a thing of which we are a part. The relationship, meanwhile, is one of progression: engaging in a hobby can form part of a person's identity, and people with common identities tend to cling to one another and form communities. Not everyone who collects stamps will identify as a stamp collector, and not everyone who identifies as a stamp collector will join a philatelic community; however, the distance from point A to point B and from point B to point C is shorter now than at any time in the past. What has shortened the distance has been the rise of social media, because social media has increased the visibility of identities and made accessing communities virtually effortless. Case in point: Had it not been for social media -- specifically YouTube, and more specifically Graham Beck's Ex...