Larry Swain wrote:
Hey all,
I'd like to point to us toward what someone in biblical studies has done: http://biblioblog.net/
The site is mostly oriented toward blogs, hence the name, (btw, not enough of you have good blogs out there. Neither do I.) but if y ou scroll down the left menu you'll also note a "Lists/Discussions" heading that does post some messages from email lists in the field. I note though that at least the ones for today are all from yahoo groups email lists rather than university based lists, so that might present a problem in setting up the system. But since I have faith in medievalists and our use of technology I believe we could find a way to adapt this to Dan's proposal.
I believe this is because the yahoo groups messages are available as RSS feeds, so aggregating them is no different from aggregating bits of blogs or any other RSS/atom feed.
I read a whole bunch of blogs and news feeds (using google reader in my case http://www.google.com/reader) regularly, and would be happy to know of any more related to humanities computing and digital medievalism if people have suggestions.
I would echo Paul's dislike of digested messages. If I want to read the other mailing lists then I'll subscribe to them.
However, I have no objection to DM-L being a subscriber to a few very low-traffic and related announcement lists, like the junicode-announce one, but only where it is something specific to DM's mission. (I.e. although many of us may also use linux, subscribing DM-L to a particular linux distribution's announcement list would be silly.) Other than the junicode one can people think of announcement-type lists which are relevant to digital medievalists in specific?
-James