Archive for 27th of March, 2007
Clioaudio 3: Reburial, Research and Respect
Mar 27th
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 next episode will be an interview with Emma Restall-Orr on her work with the Manchester Museum in presenting Lindow Man.
Things I’ve learned? I need to multi-track interviews. At the moment recording puts everything from the interviewees and myself onto the same audio track. This means that if I have a coughing fit I could drown out the other person. This is a fixable problem. A better microphone stand might also be a good idea.
Interview technique is only going to come with practice so my thanks go to Yvonne and Emma for being willing guinea-pigs. There’s stuff they’ve said that I disagree with, for instance I’m really not convinced that postmodernism meaningfully exists as a philosophical argument. It’s a category that seems as coherent as Anglophonic Philosophy as far as I can tell and I’ll write more about that some time in the future.
I also didn’t really press More >
Googlebomb (yes I am that slow)
Mar 27th
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 to alter Google results. The most famous one was miserable failure which used to bring up George W. Bush’s page at the Whitehouse website as the first result. The way it worked was that enough people highlighted the words miserable failure and linked to the Decider’s page.
It’s now also being used for bullying. In the case of Jill Filipovic she’s been the victim of a Googlebomb by various anonymous people. The text below the fold is designed to rectify that. It links to various pages of hers in a bid to move them up the Google rankings. (more…)
