Blogging carnival: Why blogging?
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ossamentaRunning a bit late for Doug’s Archaeology’s blogging carnival for the Society for American Archaeology’s annual conference, but here’s November’s entry.
November: Why blogging?
Some archaeology bloggers focus their blog on their research project, to share their latest research. Others are enthusiastic about archaeology in general, and want to tell the world about it. Ossamenta was a less idealistic project. There are so many archaeologists out there, even in my specialized field, and unfortunately, subconcious (or concious for that matter) preferences can make the difference in getting offered a project, an article or a job. Since I can’t afford to go to conferences regularly, I thought a blog would be a way to get my name out there. If no-one knows you exist, they can’t think of you when a cool project is in the making. It may never come to anything, but at least I’ve tried. And hopefully made people happy with my posts.
Blogging is work, no doubt about it. I have the utmost admiration for Katrin Kania and others, who have a post up every day. And sometimes, there aren’t anyting interesting to tell. Most sites and bones are “normal”, for want of better description, and with increased experience there is a risk that you look past things that beginners would think interesting and worth posting about.
But now that I have a computer again, I hope there will be more posts in the future. Once I get those two reports in before their deadline…
November: Why blogging?
Some archaeology bloggers focus their blog on their research project, to share their latest research. Others are enthusiastic about archaeology in general, and want to tell the world about it. Ossamenta was a less idealistic project. There are so many archaeologists out there, even in my specialized field, and unfortunately, subconcious (or concious for that matter) preferences can make the difference in getting offered a project, an article or a job. Since I can’t afford to go to conferences regularly, I thought a blog would be a way to get my name out there. If no-one knows you exist, they can’t think of you when a cool project is in the making. It may never come to anything, but at least I’ve tried. And hopefully made people happy with my posts.
Blogging is work, no doubt about it. I have the utmost admiration for Katrin Kania and others, who have a post up every day. And sometimes, there aren’t anyting interesting to tell. Most sites and bones are “normal”, for want of better description, and with increased experience there is a risk that you look past things that beginners would think interesting and worth posting about.
But now that I have a computer again, I hope there will be more posts in the future. Once I get those two reports in before their deadline…