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I updated the list of Medievalists with weblogs for the first time since before Christmas, and it involved some major changes for once. I've added an "On Hiatus" category to frequency of updates, as well as a Language category, since I have a few weblogs listed in German, Italian, and Russian. I don't search in other languages very often, so I'm sure I'm missing far, far more weblogs written by medievalists in other languages than in English. This is particularly true for languages that I don't read.
I'm happy to say that I've received three emails in the last month from people on the list, or who should have been on the list, updating information about themselves and others. There's a limit to how many of these weblogs I wonder across on my own, by web searches and by reading many of the weblogs now and again, so it's quite useful when updates come my way of their own accord. Thank you to all of you who've sent them in!
I still have good intentions towards updating the page design, but content is much more important. It's not currently possible to sort the page by languages, but it's easy enough to add that functionality if there's any demand for it.
I'm happy to say that I've received three emails in the last month from people on the list, or who should have been on the list, updating information about themselves and others. There's a limit to how many of these weblogs I wonder across on my own, by web searches and by reading many of the weblogs now and again, so it's quite useful when updates come my way of their own accord. Thank you to all of you who've sent them in!
I still have good intentions towards updating the page design, but content is much more important. It's not currently possible to sort the page by languages, but it's easy enough to add that functionality if there's any demand for it.
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Secondarily, now that such a list exists, it's been a way for medievalists to find others of similar interest, for networking purposes. I've received a few emails from medievalists telling me that the list has been useful to them.
A list on its own can never establish a sense of community, nor do I seek to. The number of medievalists in this world is vast and varied. Even with the commonalities entailed by all writing our thoughts on some subject or other on the web, there is no more reason for this particular subsection of medievalists to feel any more sense of community than they would with any other subsection with whom they had only that in common.
I'm glad that my own interest in writing such a list has proven to be of use to other people, but I came to the project without such a broad purpose in mind.
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I stumbled on to your livejournal site starting from the invisible adjunct site; common interests can be enough to intrigue (or at least to prompt a near-effortless click). I think part of me was surprised at finding where others drew the lines between public and private selves, between their work, their blogs, their professional contacts, etc.
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I admire people, such as Invisible Adjunct, who have enough content to run a purely professional site. Most of my audience comes from among my friends and family, so I cater to that, while keeping in mind the publicness involved in posting a webpage of any sort.