It's been a busy long weekend (it's the inaugural "Family Day" up here in Ontario ... just a coincidence that the date coincides with Presidents Day in the U.S. ... sure, coincidence? or manifest destiny plot?) and I didn't get to clear out my mailbox yesterday, so here goes:
I keep meaning to mention the Schola Latin site at Ning.com ... I'll probably get an rss feed for it when I get a chance ...
Speaking of rss feeds, I hope folks are making good use of my 'shared feed' of Classics blogs over there in the sidebar (ClassiCarnival); I update it a couple of times a day and it should be a good way to keep on top of Classics-related posts from the blogosphere ... I'm also putting the updates to Explorator and AWOTV in there ...
Mata Kimasatayo keeps finding the Classical stuff at Harper's ... Holderlin on Pindar's Nomos ... Pindar's Nomos ... Challenging Torture ... Catullus -- Pining for Lesbia ... Hegel on Athena's Owl ...
Some additions to your online book library:
Lempriere's Classical Dictionary (the 1801 version)
Ammianus Marcellinus (1894)
MEFRA (1881-1970)
It is with great regret that I also note that the AJA has gone to a payfer model for its journal articles ... folks might recall that the fact that it made this material available was one of the contributing factors to my judging the AJA organization superior to the APA, but that's no longer the case. I'm still trying to figure out the logic of the Journal's editor's claim that
Once again, we see scholarly journals being limited to those who have access to an academic library and/or who can afford to pay the exhorbitant download fees (if they exist ... in the AJA case, it would appear that your only option is to subscribe to the journal to get access; even if all you want to do is read the obit by Eugene Borza). I wonder when journals are going to recognize that media in general is moving away from the payfer model (see, e.g., most recently the New York Times). I wonder when scholars are going to make the connection between their work and the recently-concluded Hollywood writer's strike and refuse to publish in journals that continue to make money off their articles via the internet (and, of course, the scholars aren't getting any money from such things). Or better yet, I wonder when the internet will be allowed to live up to its long-claimed promise of being an agent of democratization of information ... so far, it has skipped the democracy part and gone straight to tyranny.
Okay ... enough with the rant ... there's also a new version of Kalos (a Classical Greek Dictionary) available ... which reminds me that Akropolis World News is also back up; I need to figure out how to get the page in rss form ...
I keep meaning to mention the Schola Latin site at Ning.com ... I'll probably get an rss feed for it when I get a chance ...
Speaking of rss feeds, I hope folks are making good use of my 'shared feed' of Classics blogs over there in the sidebar (ClassiCarnival); I update it a couple of times a day and it should be a good way to keep on top of Classics-related posts from the blogosphere ... I'm also putting the updates to Explorator and AWOTV in there ...
Mata Kimasatayo keeps finding the Classical stuff at Harper's ... Holderlin on Pindar's Nomos ... Pindar's Nomos ... Challenging Torture ... Catullus -- Pining for Lesbia ... Hegel on Athena's Owl ...
Some additions to your online book library:
Lempriere's Classical Dictionary (the 1801 version)
Ammianus Marcellinus (1894)
MEFRA (1881-1970)
It is with great regret that I also note that the AJA has gone to a payfer model for its journal articles ... folks might recall that the fact that it made this material available was one of the contributing factors to my judging the AJA organization superior to the APA, but that's no longer the case. I'm still trying to figure out the logic of the Journal's editor's claim that
By widening our electronic presence, we hope to expand our readership ...
Once again, we see scholarly journals being limited to those who have access to an academic library and/or who can afford to pay the exhorbitant download fees (if they exist ... in the AJA case, it would appear that your only option is to subscribe to the journal to get access; even if all you want to do is read the obit by Eugene Borza). I wonder when journals are going to recognize that media in general is moving away from the payfer model (see, e.g., most recently the New York Times). I wonder when scholars are going to make the connection between their work and the recently-concluded Hollywood writer's strike and refuse to publish in journals that continue to make money off their articles via the internet (and, of course, the scholars aren't getting any money from such things). Or better yet, I wonder when the internet will be allowed to live up to its long-claimed promise of being an agent of democratization of information ... so far, it has skipped the democracy part and gone straight to tyranny.
Okay ... enough with the rant ... there's also a new version of Kalos (a Classical Greek Dictionary) available ... which reminds me that Akropolis World News is also back up; I need to figure out how to get the page in rss form ...