Egypt
The Guardian, UK (Paul Harris)
- The View From The Mountain
A week ago I had a phone line put in at a tiny house half way up a mountain. I now have dial-up and can pick up my easynet emails. A major advance! I have been confined to a mobile phone for the last couple of months. I have disabled comments on the...
- The Anonymous Egyptologist
Al Ahram Weekly (Zahi Hawass) Hawass is again defending his position using his Al Ahram Weekly column: When we announced our discoveries at the temple site of Taposiris Magna near Alexandria four weeks ago, an Egyptologist who chose to remain anonymous...
- A Response To The King Tut Facial Reconstruction
http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/11898589.htmA very short article on the Contra Costa Times website's Letters Page. This is buried in the middle of a page, and the URL doesn't seem to work very consistently so I have reproduced the...
- Rewrapping A Mummy
Here is an excellent post from Vincent over at "Talking Pyramids" on the re wrapping of an anonymous Roman male mummy....
- Jealous Grief
Dr. Hawass has decided to repeat yesterdays article on an anonymous egyptologists. Dr. Hawass talks about criticism he has received in regards to the fact that one of his teams is searching for the improbable tomb of Cleopatra VII and her squeeze Mark...
Egypt
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 most bloggers have to deal with and I have a couple of really unpleasant anonymous commenters myself, whose vitriol I just delete during moderation.
It is one of the most irritating and ubiquitous annoyances of the Internet age: the anonymous commenter. Hiding behind a made-up moniker, anonymous commenters surface on virtually every blog or news website, posting bile, insults, prejudice and ignorance, often for the sheer hell of it.
In the free for all that has so far marked internet-based publishing, there seems to be no recourse for those targeted by the so-called "trolls". Certainly not of the sort they would have if such comments were published in hard copy on the letters pages of old media newspapers and magazines, where the threat of libel has kept up standards. But, perhaps, no longer.
A law suit filed last week in New York has threatened to hold some of the internet's more unpleasant denizens to account: a rare example of old media rules starting to be applied online.
- The View From The Mountain
A week ago I had a phone line put in at a tiny house half way up a mountain. I now have dial-up and can pick up my easynet emails. A major advance! I have been confined to a mobile phone for the last couple of months. I have disabled comments on the...
- The Anonymous Egyptologist
Al Ahram Weekly (Zahi Hawass) Hawass is again defending his position using his Al Ahram Weekly column: When we announced our discoveries at the temple site of Taposiris Magna near Alexandria four weeks ago, an Egyptologist who chose to remain anonymous...
- A Response To The King Tut Facial Reconstruction
http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/11898589.htmA very short article on the Contra Costa Times website's Letters Page. This is buried in the middle of a page, and the URL doesn't seem to work very consistently so I have reproduced the...
- Rewrapping A Mummy
Here is an excellent post from Vincent over at "Talking Pyramids" on the re wrapping of an anonymous Roman male mummy....
- Jealous Grief
Dr. Hawass has decided to repeat yesterdays article on an anonymous egyptologists. Dr. Hawass talks about criticism he has received in regards to the fact that one of his teams is searching for the improbable tomb of Cleopatra VII and her squeeze Mark...