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 [...]
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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 [...]
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 [...]
'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” [...]
Podzinger: Searching Podcast Content
I 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 [...]
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:
Past Thinking RSS Feed
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!
Past Thinking
Up 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
