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Celtic Studies Resources from a Digital Medievalist

Some Wisdom about Writing from Lynn Hunt

| March 28, 2010

You cannot accumulate pages if you constantly second guess yourself. You have to second guess yourself just enough to make constant revision productive and not debilitating. You have to believe that clarity is going to come, not all at once, and certainly not before you write, but eventually, if you work at it hard enough, [...]

Medieval Jousting Bloggers at Inside Higher Ed

| March 17, 2010

The story about less-than-ethical medievalist bloggers that I posted about here, thanks to Another Damned Medievalist and Meg of Xoom has been picked up by Inside Higher Education here. I’ve been thinking about this some more, particularly in light of the Blogspot hosted Medievalist News. There are a few oddities, aside from the less-than-original posts. [...]

Copy Goes The Weasel

| March 16, 2010

It’s been bugging me for quite a while now that Medieval News, which many of us rely on for quick updates on the latest hoard, mass grave, or DNA ridonkulousness, is essentially a scraping service with some questionable policies. From here. There’s a site that I linked to called Medieval News. It mostly covered items [...]