#blogarch
A collection of tweets beginning just prior to #saa2011 and run through the evening after the Blogging Archaeology session. Nearly every tweet during the actual conference was retweeted, I didn't include any of the retweets here simply because of the time it would take to arrange them all.
- In the weeks leading up to #saa201 - Colleen Morgan spearheaded a blog carnival with questions on the topic of blogging in archaeology. The concept of a blog carnival is new to me, but from the look of it, it was wildly successful. Through all of the links in Middle Savagery one should be able to work their way through all of the carnival blogs.
Blogging Archaeology – Week 5 & Finished! | Middle SavageryFrom Terminal 3 in Heathrow, between Mulberry and TGIFriday, here’s the last edition of Blogging Archaeology. Our SAA session in in a couple of days and I’ll be covering it (and probably the rest of the SAA) on twitter: check #blogarch or http://twitter.com/clmorgan for updates. Last week I was prompted to ask about possible outcomes of this conversation, after several participants expressed interest in publication: For our last question, I would like to ask you to consider the act of public...- These also produced some discussion of how to approach publishing work on the subject... Kris Hirst's thoughts on that can be found here...
Blogging Archaeology and Peer Review #blogarchA recommendation to archaeological bloggers who want to get serious about what they do.- from day 1 of #saa2011, #blogarch is already appearing in conference goers tweets.
- and some tidbits of things to come were shared by folks like @electricarchaeo
The Archaeological Blogosphere « Electric Archaeology: Digital Media for Learning and ResearchThe archaeological blogosphere [zoomable pdf of image] is strangely beautiful. I generated this by scraping over 8000 pages from a Google Search of ‘Blogging Archaeology’. MiddleSavagery sits right there in the middle of the Green Zone. For more on this, and what it means, see my discussion tomorrow at the Society for American Archaeology’s general meeting. If you’d like to play with the files and data I scraped send me a note. You’ll need Gephi. To do your own crawling, you might try this....- There were some technical problems, but in a session full of tech junkie the only problems were with airplanes.
