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  • Tehmina Goskar 10:36 am on 5 August, 2008 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: Blogging,   

    New International Heritage and Conservation News blog 

    It seems like an age ago that I blogged about the use of the web, particularly blogging, to communicate better issues related to heritage conservation, particularly as it is a field in the broader heritage sector which is perhaps most shrouded in mystery. Communication has tended to be aimed purely at the professional with public understanding of conservation lower than it might be.

    ICOMOS-UK’s new website, based around a blog, is now live. After a marathon month of literally pulling up the hand-break on this web project and changing direction, a completely new and different approach was taken to help the organisation make the most of the web and its audience: quickly and all on a shoe-string [note: what on earth are 'shoe-strings' in this sense?] Without going into too much detail about the background to this, the original plan for a redeveloped website, overseen and directed by me, especially the creation of new content, but technically put together by a company who had promised to sponsor the project, fell through.
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    • Benjamin Chesterton 1:00 pm on 5 September, 2008 Permalink

      Hi,

      enyoy this website with lots of solid thinking about heritage and communication which is really important but often gets lost along the way.

      This might interest you … its a audio slideshow that celebrates the heritage of Brunel. The photographer, David White, rebuilt the camera that was famously used to photograph Brunel in 1857 and then travelled around Britain photographing Brunels work … nuts but the photographs are really amazing .. its this kind of stuff that I think gives people a window into heritage. http://www.duckrabbit.info/brunel … more of our stuff can be seen at http://www.duckrabbit.info THANKS

    • Tom Goskar 1:24 pm on 5 September, 2008 Permalink

      Hi Benjamin,

      I’m glad that you’ve enjoyed some of our posts!

      Thanks for the link to David White’s photos – they really are amazing. I might mention it on here – fascinating stuff…

    • Benjamin Chesterton 12:06 pm on 6 September, 2008 Permalink

      Tom, thanks for your post and kind works.

  • Tom Goskar 11:02 am on 11 August, 2006 Permalink | Reply
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    Portable Antiquities Scheme Blog 

    Today, I’ve just discovered that the Portable Antiquities Scheme, a voluntary scheme to record archaeological objects found by members of the public in England and Wales, have a blog and a whole slew of RSS feeds.

    The PAS blog covers pretty much everything done by the Scheme, from technical notes about the website the the information contained withing the PAS database, to spotlighting particular finds of note. It’s an interesting read for techies and non-techies alike.

    At the time of writing, the latest post covers the scheme’s usage of open source software. It’s nice to read something like this from a fellow heritage professional:

    It should be recognised that IE sucks by now.

    Yes!

    I’m reading the post as I write this, I confess, and it’s just mentioned me as a “guru”. Well I never! Moreimportantly, it’s mentioned that the PAS will be implementing geotagging later in the summer, which is heartening, as I’ve been very keen to see this applied to in a heritage context. Well done, guys!

    Link: Portable Antiquities Scheme blog

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  • Tom Goskar 12:11 pm on 30 July, 2006 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: archaeolog, , , participatory, theory   

    Archaeolog: a collaborative archaeology blog 

    Michael Shanks is a well known archaeologist who specialises in theoretical approaches within archaeology. He is one of the growing number of archaeologists who really ‘get it’ when it comes to social media and the internet. Through his blog and various experiments he has grasped the concepts of participatory media by the horns and seen the possibilities and realities that communicative technologies can provide. If you’re reading this because you like archaeology, or you are interested in ‘Web 2.0′, I’d recommend a visit to his site.

    To get to the point of this post, Michael and others have established Archaeolog:

    Archaeolog is a collective weblog dealing in all things archaeological. It is open to the wider archaeological community and cognate fields from academics to field practitioners, from professors to students. We are inclusive and have no agenda other than to foster debate. We are community driven and we wish to provide a place for archaeology at large to be visible to the widest possible audience.

    It’s great to see something like this. I’ve been promoting the use of blogs and social networking within archaeology for a few years now, and to be honest I’ve been a bit blind as to what has been happening in the USA. Expect a few more posts as I delve into some of the experiements in the wonderfully named “collaboratory” at Stanford University.

    Archaeolog is committed to accelerating the debate. With the ability to comment it facilitates immediate feedback and discussion from a broad range of inquirers interested in exploring the archaeological sensibility at large.

    And long may the debate continue, and may many be involved…

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    • Kate 12:38 pm on 4 August, 2006 Permalink

      Hi,
      I have been searching Technorati’s pages for blogs interested in archaeology and found yours. It is excellent. I have been blogging about my historical and archaeological interests for a few months now and I have found it difficult to meet up with like-minded people. So I have added yours to my favourites today. I love history and my aim is to bring history to people who never really think about it. My blog is a large part of this effort. I am also writing historical novels, not published yet, but maybe one day. I am glad to see that there are other historians/archaeologists out there who realise the enormous potential of the internet and web to promote history and archaeology,
      Kate.
      http://journals.aol.co.uk/bobandkate/AnAnalysisofLife/

    • Henrik 7:15 pm on 23 September, 2006 Permalink

      Well I have read the entries on archaeolog for the past month or so.
      It might be, that Shanks has “grasped the concepts of participatory media by the horns and seen the possibilities and realities that communicative technologies can provide”, but I’m really not impressed with the blog. When you comment on the blog it takes several days for the comment to appear on the post and the author doesn’t always respond – although I have also witnessed some quite active participation from the ‘collaborators’. There are some nice posts, but the part about fostering a debate… well, it seems to be going at a rather slow pace.

  • Tom Goskar 8:06 pm on 6 January, 2006 Permalink | Reply  

    ‘Tis the season to be blogging: tehmina.org 

    Tehmina (my gorgeous wife!) has started blogging. Tehm is an historian, museums specialist, and regular commenter on Past Thinking (normally correcting my slip-ups). She’s written books too! Expect her blog to be wonderfully written, and to cover topics such as “Life, history, beauty, oranges”.

    According to her it’s “one small leap for one small woman” – so go forth and read!

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  • Tom Goskar 12:27 pm on 1 December, 2005 Permalink | Reply  

    Podzinger: Searching Podcast Content 

    PodzingerI have just found out about Podzinger, a new service that utilises voice recognition technologies to index the actual audio content of podcasts. It essentially transcribes your podcast, which is amazing. Their search interface is simple and uncluttered, and search results allow you to listen to the podcast right on the page.
    They are even offering a service where people can search your podcast from your website.

    Podzinger’s speech recognition software is powered by BBN Technologies, who have apparently been in the game for 30 years.

    PODZINGER looks inside podcasts, not just the metadata, letting you search podcasts in the same way that you search for anything else on the web.

    I’ve just added the Archaeocast feed to Podzinger to see how well it copes with speech that has background noise. But from a quick scoot about searching for random things in random podcasts, it looks most promising.

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  • Tom Goskar 11:48 am on 29 November, 2005 Permalink | Reply  

    del.icio.us Tagrolls 

    del.icio.us have introduced a new tool entitled “tagrolls” which enable you to easily display a tag cloud of your links on your own website. Here are mine:

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  • Tom Goskar 2:05 pm on 25 November, 2005 Permalink | Reply  

    Past Thinking RSS Feed 

    Feedburner
    First the renaming of my blog, and now the moving of my RSS URL. Whatever next?! Well, my feed now includes my latest photos on Flickr and my del.icio.us links as a daily digest.

    My RSS feed is now http://feeds.feedburner.com/PastThinking, courtesy of FeedBurner. Please update your newsreader!

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  • Tom Goskar 11:27 am on 21 November, 2005 Permalink | Reply  

    Past Thinking 

    Past Thinking logoUp until now, this weblog has been called simply “goskar.com”. The main reason for this was that I couldn’t think of a good name for it, and I didn’t think that it really mattered.
    Since I’m now getting a reasonable amount of traffic (about 3000 sessions per month), I thought that it deserves a more imaginative name. As many people know, I’m an archaeologist, and these posts are my thoughts and opinions – and at the risk of sounding cheesy, the name “Past Thinking” seems rather apt.
    I hope that people will continue to enjoy “Past Thinking”!
    Cheers,
    Tom

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    • Howard Durdle 2:13 pm on 21 November, 2005 Permalink

      I, for one, welcome our new Past Thinking overlords…

      Nice name, squire. I shall continue to enjoy. :)

    • David St. Hubbins 7:08 pm on 21 November, 2005 Permalink

      In Soviet Russia, thinking passes YOU!

      Good name. Works on a number of levels, too.

  • Tom Goskar 3:23 pm on 5 October, 2005 Permalink | Reply  

    Flickr on WordPress 

    I have been wanting to incorporate my Flickr photos on this blog for some time now, but have never found a satisfactory way of doing this so far. There’s always been lots of under-the-bonnet fiddling to do, and as I’m not using Apache on Linux, most of the methods I’ve tried haven’t worked out (that’s also why I don’t have nice friendly URIs for my posts).

    Today, however, I came across a wonderful plugin called FAlbum by Elijah Cornell. It works wonderfully, and you can see how well it integrates by visiting my new photo page. Installing it was simple and configuration is done within the WordPress admin interface.

    Thanks Elijah!

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  • Tom Goskar 1:04 pm on 14 September, 2005 Permalink | Reply  

    Google Blog Search 

    Google have just launched their beta blog search tool.

    It seems to work quite efficiently, listing at the time of writing, this blog as the 4th result on a search for the word “archaeology”. My previous post, on archaeology podcasts, talked about the Wessex Archaeology events blog, which is as of 2pm today, is the top hit on the same keyword.

    It will be interesting to see how quickly the Google Blog Search will index posts – and it will be equally interesting to see how Technorati react. Technorati generally manages to crawl this site within about 10 minutes of posting.

    The Google Blog search does currently not have the ability to search tags at present, nor does it offer the personalised service provided by Technorati (custom feeds for tags and keywords, claiming a blog etc).

    Will we be pinging Google in the near future, as an update service? It’ll be an interesting one to watch…

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