Comments on: Savage Minds Around the Web

By: jay sosa

jay sosa — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:35:47 +0000

Good call, Yoni. Sorry about the repetition.

By: MTBradley

MTBradley — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:48:32 +0000

This blog has never not stripped my tags. I don’t know the logic behind when it does and does not do so—the posters with access to initiate threads never seem to have the problem, and I suspect that posters with their own WordPress accounts also avoid the issue. Just guesses, though.

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By: Yoni

Yoni — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:17:20 +0000

huh. my last comment had XHTML tags that were stripped. Chris’ original great post here:

http://savageminds.org/2008/07/07/x-phi/

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By: Yoni

Yoni — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:16:09 +0000

So…

How are this even new x-phi article different from what we went through here a long time ago? I still don’t see, following Chris’ comments in that article, how the x-phi’s are not simply rebranding philosophy to play “the game of Authority,” as Chris puts?

With the newest material outpourings of the group (tshirts, etc), x-phi seems even closer to a new internet trend (ie Web 2.0) and less a sustained contribution to scholarly thinking… Because they saw off sheepheads?

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By: The Eggman

The Eggman — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 12:24:57 +0000

OK, lets refine the conversation, Mark Dawson, how are you negotiating the problems of voluntary informed consent in occupied Iraq? When you approach occupied Iraqis, how do you approach Iraqis and let them know that they don’t need to talk with you, and if they don’t talk with you they won’t be harmed and they won’t be labeled as being in the resistance? Also, how do you personally justify working to support the Bush Doctrine?

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By: Mark Dawson

Mark Dawson — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:39:36 +0000

Thanks for noticing the post on ethnography.com. I think refining the conversation in general is a good idea, and I certainly don’t make any claims to try to be balanced. You will see very diverse opinions on the site about the HTS from Tony Waters and Cindy VanGilder, you should check out their dissenting opinions as well.

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By: L.L. Wynn

L.L. Wynn — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 05:32:45 +0000

And speaking of HTS, Jay, a couple of weeks ago I published on Culture Matters an interview with one of the (non-anthropologist) members of the first Human Terrain Team in Afghanistan. It’s pretty interesting. http://culturematters.wordpress.com/2008/09/22/the-story-behind-an-hts-picture/

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By: Michael E. Smith

Michael E. Smith — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:31:56 +0000

Not sure how to best post a query on OA (I tried to do so in “Open Access Anthropology” and got a bunch of errors and confusion). I am wondering if anyone knows what, if anything, has happened to the Bentham journal, “Open Anthropology.”

http://www.bentham.org/open/toanthj/

At one point they had some articles posted, but now the web site does not list any articles. Given Richard Poynder’s investigation of Bentham’s editorial and professional practices, I wonder if anyone has looked into “Open Anthropology” to see if this is a legitimate journal or not.

http://poynder.blogspot.com/2008/04/open-access-interviews-matthew-honan.html

Just curious (both about the journal and about those who might pay hundreds of dollars to publish in it).

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