Is PDQ a good idea?
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Is PDQ a good idea?


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Electrical Archaeology

The idea of the Past Discussed Quarterly - a new electronic journal which I mentioned on an earlier post - is under discussion at the moment. If you are interested in publishing formats and the scope of the Internet to offer new and flexible ways of sharing ideas and research in archaeology and history, then this discussion is worth taking the time to view.




- Someone Is Standing Up To The Anonymous Web Trolls
The Guardian, UK (Paul Harris) There's not much Egyptology news around and I know that there are other bloggers reading this blog so I thought that the above story might be of interest to some of you. Malevolent anonymous comments are something that...

- Broadcast Fiction: Visit To The Underworld
Ancient World Bloggers Thanks to David Gill for his post to the Ancient World Bloggers group re the broadcast of an ancient Egypt themed short story. A short story, "Visit to the Underworld" by novelist Stevie Davies, was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 over...

- More Re Past Discussed Quarterly
The Past Discussed Quarterly For those of who have been interested in the the discussion about The Past Discussed Quarterly (PDQ) this is just a quick note to let you know that PDQ now has its own website at the above address. As well as introductory...

- Journal Proposal: The Past Discussed Quarterly
Ancient World Bloggers Group Thanks to Chuck Jones for sending me a link to this item, which introduces not only a new journal, but also a slightly different concept in academic publishing, occupying new ground somewhere between academically-focused blogs...

- The Hall Of Ma'at
http://www.archaeology.org/0305/etc/web.html An article on the Archaeology website, looking at one group of people's attempts to counter pseudo-archaeological arguments by using Internet technology to provide a forum for reasoned discussion: "The...



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