Just set up a linganth blog

[Alexandre Enkerli]

In my experience, blogs and mailing-lists respond to quite different
needs. Getting academics involved in blog discussions is often much
more difficult than getting them to answer a mailing-list message.
Possibly because a blog is considered "more public" than a
mailing-list or because people spend more time in their mailreader
(including their webmail) than in their RSS aggregator.

Surely, other linganthers have worked on these types of online
communication systems and have more to say about this. In fact, I hope
I'm wrong in this case and that the blog can serve some of the same
purposes as the mailing-list.

On 11/30/06, Richard J Senghas <Richard.Senghas at sonoma.edu> wrote:
> 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
>
>
>


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Alexandre
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