Just set up a linganth blog

[kuipers]

Richard - if you don't mind keeping the linganth list alive for a while, I 
would suggest keeping it going; I think it is still a very useful 
communicative tool.

Joel


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Joel Kuipers
Department of Anthropology
2112 G Street NW room 201
George Washington University
http://home.gwu.edu/~kuipers

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard J Senghas" <Richard.Senghas at sonoma.edu>
To: "Leila Monaghan" <monaghan at indiana.edu>
Cc: <linganth at cc.rochester.edu>; <sla_discussion at lists.berkeley.edu>
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2006 1:53 PM
Subject: Re: [Linganth] Just set up a linganth blog


> This is excellent!  Thanks, Leila!
>
> So, let's see how this blog goes.  If it meets everyone's needs, and 
> folks are as happy posting there as on a traditional list, then maybe  it 
> would be good to simply shut down the old list (which over the  years has 
> become known to what seems to be at least 15 or 20 spam  factories).
>
> However, given that in some parts of the world, there is still easier 
> access to e-mail than web access (or, at least, e-mail is affordable  and 
> web access isn't quite so), it may be worth keeping an old style  list 
> around.
>
> So, what do you all think?
>
> -Richard
>
> Richard J Senghas  (Professor of Anthropology, Sonoma State U, 
> California)
> Visiting Researcher, Institutionen för nordiska språk
> Stockholms universitet
> S-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
> Richard.Senghas at nordiska.su.se
> Richard.Senghas at sonoma.edu
>
> On 30 Nov 2006, , at 7:29 PM, Leila Monaghan wrote:
>
>> Was inspired by Barbara LeMaster to create a blog for Linguistic 
>> Anthropology: http://linganth.blogspot.com/  All are welcome to  join 
>> it--I thought it might be a particularly good place to post  short papers 
>> or handouts that we have presented somewhere, would  like to be out there 
>> but that we haven't gotten around to  publishing.  Sessions or sets of 
>> related papers are particularly  welcome. Just drop me a note and I'll 
>> send you an invite if you  want to post a longer piece.  Comments are 
>> welcome from all.
>>
>> Just cuz we are a social group that started in the 20th century, no 
>> reason why we can't do the 21st century blog thing!
>>
>> all best,
>>
>> Leila
>