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The People Speak: Ancient is cool
I'm struggling to get to grips with del.icio.us which is a "social bookmarks manager". It works with tags rather like Flickr so that if you go to del.icio.us/tag/archaeology then the site will pull up all the recent sites listed under archaeology. If you go del.icio.us/tag/ancient then all the ancient sites are displayed.
The interesting thing is that on the 'ancient' page are related tags. These are the tags which people are also filing ancient things under. Unsurprisingly 'Greece' and 'Rome' are there, but also at the bottom, reflecting the opinions of del.icio.us's users is the word cool. It's good news, at least if you don't look at what the other 'cool' things are.
One cool thing I did find was Dissoi Blogoi a blog on ancient philosophy. It's been going since Tuesday and already has a shedload of comments, so obviously I'm a bit of a slow surfer.
On the Radio
I've been browsing the Radio 4 archives for things to listen to. I'm a big fan of Just A Minute, though it rarely touches classical matters. Of more interest might be Unearthing Mysteries, in particular Locating the Land of Punt and Diagnosing the diseases of the Ancient Egyptians. It's not strictly classical, but interesting nontheless.
Classical Jobs
There's a list jobs in Classics in the UK online at http://www.jobs.ac.uk/rss/disc/1703.html. Just click on 'classics' for the subject and 'all' for everywhere else. It's also available as an RSS feed at http://www.jobs.ac.uk/rss/disc/1703.xml
Blogspotting
Whilst scouring the web for rss and atom feeds I found:
Do Fundo Do Mar. Notícias de Arqueologia Náutica e Subaquática, Navios e Naufrágios / Underwater Archaeology News, Ships and Shipwrecks by Pedro Caleja. It's all in English.
Vesuvius. A blog so new it only started yesterday. It looks like it'll be annotated links of various ancient themed sites.
Rites of Passage. Athena blogs her progress on her MPhil course.
The Trireme Veterans for Truth. Archaeological commentary against post-modernism, mainly against Michael Shanks. I read it and I'm kind of envious. I'd like someone to start a blog criticising me*. I'll have to get converting some of the 75% complete papers on my hard-drive into 100% complete papers.
The Bitter Boat. A Blog that began as an account of my struggles to find full-time employment as an archaeologist. It has become a blog about trying to start over in a new career.
Wessex Archaeology News. A blog so new it hasn't even started yet. I think they're testing it online which is how mine started getting visitors.
Archaeological Digs! A blog of dig opportunities.
The best blog title I saw today was Help me Look for Treasure, but sadly it has only one entry. The best post title Archaeology Explodes History, Confirms Myth.
*I have an enormous, but realistic ego. I don't think for one moment anyone would start a site praising me.
Dig yourself a Roman
I found on the ARLT blog an announcement for this year's big Time Team event (though if I'd paid attention to Explorator I would have found out earlier). It's going to be "The Big Roman Dig". A couple of years ago the programme had a 'big dig' which involved the programme's viewers digging one metre square test pits in their back yards, down to about 30cm. It provoked a bit of a controversy in the UK.
One one side were those who felt that having large numbers of people dig their yards was grossly irresponsible, would create intolerable pressures for archaeologists having sacks of pottery dumped on them to identify and would lead people to think anything was fair game for excavation. On the other side were those who said that anything that increased awareness of archaeology was a good thing, a test pit was smaller than a pond (and water features are 'in' at the moment) and that archaeologists should not legislate what someone could do in their own back garden. Though everyone agreed that Channel 4 were geniuses for setting up this television special, and then foisting all the work and costs for national support for the event onto the local councils.
Anyhow you can eavesdrop on what professional archaeologists in the UK think about it by visiting http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?S1=britarch, typing in big roman dig into the 'Search for' box and 2005 into the since box. So far the responses have been pretty tame.
Or you can visit Channel 4's site.
Shades of Polycrates
This from the current issue of The Week, p. 4:
Two years ago, Eric Bartos' marriage was breaking up. He was so distraught that when he caught a sailfish off Fort Lauderdale, Fla., he slipped his gold wedding band around its bill and released it, symbolizing the end of a painful chapter in his life. Last month, Bartos was fishing off Miami Beanch, and after a 10-minute struggle, managed to hook the same fish--with the wedding band firmly embedded in its bill. "I'm still shellshocked," said Bartos, who is now divorced. "My girlfriend says it's a sign I should marry her."
New in Paperback
A commercial break with some good news: the paperback of my Trying Neaira seems to be shipping as of today from Amazon.com.
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Conference Proceedings online
After browsing Michael Shank's weblog I see that the organisers of the conference "Seeing the Past: Building knowledge of the past and present through acts of seeing" have put papers given by the participants up online for reading and comment. There's some relevant stuff for classicists such as: Professor Sue Blundell, the Open University, UK and Professor Nancy Rabinowitz, Hamilton College: "Gendered Viewing in Classical Greece". It looks interesting and comment boxes are available at the bottom of each page.
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