Comments on: Start your own Anthro Blog!

By: Scoub

Scoub — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 19:10:33 +0000

I just hesitated between wordpress and dotclear and i finaly choosed Dotclear..i’m waiting for Dotclear 2 who has a interactive spam solution. Dotclear 2 also use akismet 😉

By: Erkan

Erkan — Sun, 02 Apr 2006 18:50:26 +0000

And here is mine: Erkan’s Field Diary: http://frazer.rice.edu/~erkan/blog/. I don’t know; maybe because of what I study or because of my journalistic fantasies it does not look like a proper blog but it had gained some following and I am satisfied with that so far.

By: Jen Cardew

Jen Cardew — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 16:39:04 +0000

I’m not sure why my last post says “Toronto” but I did mean to write “Vancouver”. I swear, my laptop has a mind of its own some days.

By: Kerim

Kerim — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 02:27:33 +0000

Jen,

Look forward to reading your reports!

By: Jen Cardew

Jen Cardew — Sun, 26 Mar 2006 00:32:46 +0000

Hello all, I've read Savage Minds and Anthroblogs for quite sometime, so after seeing this post and talking to Will I decided to start my own. You can view it at Synthesis of Thought I admit that it is off to a slow start and it's not very pretty yet- but, I will be blogging from the SFAA conference in Toronto next week.

By: orange.

orange. — Mon, 13 Mar 2006 08:41:17 +0000

aah, I yet wondered you did not mention the necessity to have own serverspace. Thx. You see I m a complete tech-n00b.

By: Kerim

Kerim — Sat, 11 Mar 2006 03:09:04 +0000

Orange:

There is a difference between WordPress the software and WordPress.com the hosted solution. I was talking about the latter, which has very good Spam protection. In fact, Akismet was developed for the hosted service.

By: orange.

orange. — Fri, 10 Mar 2006 13:56:38 +0000

Adrian uses wordpress for his students' blogs. He several times reported on heavy spam troubles, not without documenting solutions, though.

By: jvarisco

jvarisco — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 07:00:20 +0000

While not strictly an anthro blog, Daniel Varisco has a blog on the Middle East at http://www.tabsir.net/; he is an anthropologist who worked in Yemen, and is currently past-President of the Middle East section of the AAA.

By: Will

Will — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 17:55:33 +0000

Interesting…I registered at wordpress just to look around. I didnt even know they hosted their blogs. When did this happen? And no ads on the blogs? What’s the catch?

I used to use blogger.com for my personal blog. Nothing special and I was getting tired of the spam and lack of nice templates, but then they spruced it up a little bit and it’s not that bad anymore…seems a bit more stable now too.

By: Kambiz Kamrani

Kambiz Kamrani — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 16:15:50 +0000

WordPress.com is an excellent service, and it beats Blogger because it provides a way to categorize your posts , trackback your sources, and keep a blogroll or link section… plus you can have about me, contact me, etc pages that are literally plug and chug features. That and the WYSIWYG text editor, it becomes as easy to use as a word processor like Microsoft Word.

Thanks Kerim, for making this kind of PSA. The anthropology community definately needs to get more active on the blogging front, in my opinion. Hopefully this will motivate some to blog anthro.

By: Kerim

Kerim — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:40:30 +0000

Have you tried wordpress.com? The whole point is that you don’t need to even know what HTML is! Most people don’t.

I say this as someone who has helped such people set up blogs on various systems. In most cases they get stuck fairly early on in the process, but most people I’ve set up with WordPress.com get off and running without any trouble – even setting up their own links on the sidebar which is remarkably difficult for such users to do in Blogger.

By: Dave G.

Dave G. — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 12:03:13 +0000

I have to say that I don’t find Blogger particularly difficult to deal with. I have minimal html skills, and no web design training, but I managed to put something together. Blogger doesn’t support trackbacks, which is a little annoying, but other than that, its pretty adequate.

Check out my running discussion of heritage, archaeology and culture in de-industrialized Baltimore at http://www.hampdenheritage.blogspot.com/.

I am going to use Typepad for a limited-access blog in the near future. It seems to be the only way easy platform for setting up permissions.