{"id":3461,"date":"2006-09-27T09:46:49","date_gmt":"2006-09-27T09:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2006\/09\/where-have-all-the-old-blogs-gone\/"},"modified":"2011-02-05T07:47:06","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T07:47:06","slug":"where-have-all-the-old-blogs-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2006\/09\/where-have-all-the-old-blogs-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Where have all the old blogs gone?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I got inspired to preen our blogroll, by following up blogrolls on other linguistics blogs (notably Language Log<\/a>). This meant hours of pleasure going through musings, dead blogs, frozen blogs, (very!) personal blogs, e-learning blogs exhorting us to use blogs in teaching, e-learning blogs exhorting not to use them, pictures of cats, gardens, parrots, business blogs, meta-blogs..
\nThe results?<\/p>\n


\n1. Östen Dahl needs to update How to avoid graduation<\/a> to mention blogging..
\n2. There’s a lot of good stuff on blogs. Many blogs focus on English – and there don’t seem to be many public blogs on endangered languages and cultures apart from those already on our blogroll (or maybe it’s that I just didn’t read enough non-English blogs). But I have added some blogs which give a lot of linguistics news including on endangered languages, including LingNews<\/a>, Jabal al-Lughat<\/a>, Language Hat<\/a>, LingFormant<\/a> and Omniglot<\/a>.
\n3. I’m not sure if people archive the good stuff on blogs other than on the web. Here is a spectacular demonstration both of the usefulness of blogging and for the need to put your thesis in an electronic archive:
\nNicola Nassira<\/a>‘s blog
\nMay. 2nd, 2006
\nI know a few of you read my thesis when I posted it about a year ago (yeesh, has it been that long?). The problem now is that I rather stupidly put it up on Harvard webspace, to which I no longer have access (since I’m no longer a Harvard student), and I don’t have a copy of the final draft on any non-crashed computer. And a friend\/mentor\/former boss has asked to read it.
\n4. A lot of blogs have died… and there are more or less poetic ways to do so:
\nThe discouraging word
\n<\/a>Done
\nPosted Sunday, December 4, 2005
\nWe’re finished. Farewell.
\nEnigmatic mermaid<\/a>
\nWednesday, September 15, 2004
\n5:14PM – FINAL POST
\nLanguage legend<\/a>
\nhow to die<\/i>
\nThursday, January 19, 2006
\nE-Julie has left the building
\nSo, this post is going to be a bit different to the rest, cos in this one you get to watch live as E-Julie disappears into the far horizon.
\nRedmat<\/a>
\nSaturday, August 21, 2004
\nThe End
\nThe adventure of Redmat stops here.
\n5. Some have just gone with the Boojum
\nChainik <\/b>
\nKitten of doom<\/a>
\nLes coups de langue de la grande rousse<\/a>
\nSemantickler<\/a>
\n6. Some are frozen (with pictures of ice to prove it). But their archives are still a reminder of former liveliness. The saddest such snap freezing – and of relevance to TLAC readers- is Namu Pa’i ‘Ai<\/a> News and Linguistic Sketches on Hawai’i Creole English and Other Pidgins and Creoles<\/i>
\nThe last post reads:
\nMonday, January 24, 2005
\nIf You Build It, They Will Come<\/i>
\nI would like to thank Semantic Compositions and Language Hat for spreading the word about this weblog. It is rather remarkable how quickly it has appeared on the proverbial “map”. Not a bad start for a first week. <\/center>
\n7. Finally, for other blogroll preeners, here are a list of other frozen language and linguistics blogs (i.e. not updated since 2005 or early 2006):
\nAbecedaria<\/a>
\nAblaut Time<\/a>
\nbLing Blog<\/a>
\nCafe Mo<\/a>
\nCanny Linguist<\/a>
\nGlosses<\/a>
\nGrammar catastrophes<\/a>
\nJens Weblog<\/a>
\nThe Language Feed<\/a>
\nLanguage development<\/a>
\nLogomacy<\/a>
\nMeaning and Thinking<\/a>
\nMinimal pears<\/a>
\nMithridates<\/a>
\nThe omnivorous linguist <\/a>
\nRomanika<\/a>
\nUncle Jazzbeau’s Gallimaufrey<\/a>
\nWe Are Free Morphemes<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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