Blogging is either dangerous or a grind. Discuss.
Week 2 of the carnival and it's been a lot of fun trekking through the archaeo-blogs. It made an awesome distraction from the viva (let's never talk about Chapter 9). I honestly didn't realise how many voices there were; nice to meet you Dirt , John Hawks , The Horde from MSU , Dig Girl , Publishing Archaeology , Sara Perry , Where in the hell am i? , and Electric Archaeologist . For a round-up of responses, see the Call to Arms by MS. I have a serious issues with hitting the tl,dr wall, so I'll just briefly summarize: we all blog to talk to some sort of public. We're either trying to convince them to buy us (value what we do!) or we're sort of broadcasting an internal monologue to a swift-responding army of peers. It's worth pointing out that a journal I just submitted to has a ONE YEAR electronic preview thing going on, and that's after the 6 month submission process; I might as well blog because by the time anything gets published we'll ll b