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I’ll be talking at the Classical Association conference at Birmingham in a few weeks. I was told there’d be a session on publishing, so I get to be Bora for a day.

The plan is to talk about Peer-to-peer publishing and the creative process. The other speakers seem to be talking about publishing finished work. There’s [...]

I received a press release for a new site selling stock photos of ancient sites. I’m not linking to it because the photos cost hundreds of dollars, and the price isn’t revealed until after you register. I appreciate that photographic work isn’t just a case of point ‘n’ click, but I struggle with the concept [...]

Modern Sparta
I went to see 300 and it was quite an experience. The plot, and if you’re an ancient historian you will need this explaining, is more or less as follows.
For no apparent reason an emissary arrives from Persia demanding a minor tribute. The king, Leo Nydas, refuses and asks the council to send an [...]

I was planning to use this for a presentation coming soon and release the template afterwards. It’s recently occurred to me that it won’t work for the animations I’ll be using. So it’s available for download now as a PowerPoint file. It’s very basic but it may be of use to someone, and if it [...]

Clioaudio 3: Reburial, Research and Respect
There was a story several weeks ago about demands for reburial of human bones by Pagans in the UK. I’ve got two episodes of Clioaudio talking about that. The first is live now, with Yvonne Aburrow talking about the diversity of Pagan beliefs and how she’d solve the problem. The [...]

I saw this on A Blog Around The Clock, but it didn’t trigger any braincells. My cold meant that I wasn’t following American politics, and this looked like a politics post. Luckily I’ve now also seen it on Barista and it makes sense. A Googlebomb is what happens when people link to something en masse [...]

Bosnia’s Pyramid Scheme. Photo (cc) Blandm.
I haven’t posted much on the pyramania in Bosnia since September. Still a trickle of comments and complaints continue to come in. There’s a small number of people who insist that Osmanagić should be allowed to do what he likes and any evidence that he’s incompetent or plain wrong should [...]

When I say that posts on TV attract readers, like in the previous review, this is the sort of thing I mean.

I did have some qualms about reviewing this book before it arrived. It’s a free review copy, so I was wondering what to do if it turned out to be awful. I tend not to write negative reviews if I can help it, unless something is surprisingly bad, because I prefer to spend my time [...]

It’s just occurred to me I forgot to mention Clioaudio episode two here. It’s out of date now, as it’s the Tomb of Jesus, but if you missed it it’s below:
[audio http://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3?http://www.clioaudio.com/audio/clioaudio2-tombofjesus.mp3]
I mention it as I’m working on finishing episodes three and four. The plan was to produce an episode on the Pagan reburial story [...]