ARA Modus Operandi

Scholarly search

2004-11-20T05:54:00.000Z

CNN.com - Google engineers new scholarly search - Nov 19, 2004: "Google Inc., the leader in online search engines, is setting out to make better sense of all the scholarly work stored on the Web. The company's new service, unveiled late Wednesday, draws upon newly developed algorithms to list the academic research that appears to be most relevant to a search request. Mountain View-based Google

looters charter

2004-11-10T06:26:00.000Z

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Archaeologists fear 'looters' charter': "Archaeologists fear 'looters' charter' John Hooper in Rome Tuesday November 9, 2004 The Guardian Archaeologists were yesterday aghast over a plan by MPs loyal to Silvio Berlusconi to legalise the private ownership of archaeological treasures in Italy. One called the measure a 'looters' charter'. "

PCA Inscription

2004-11-09T07:21:00.000Z

PCA - Sites - Highlights - Tabard Square Inscription This has been interpreted by one of the leading Latin epigraphic scholars Dr Mark Hassall, of the Institute of Archaeology in London as meaning: To the spirits of the emperors (and) the god Mars Camulos, Tiberinius Celerianus, ranking moritex of the (traders) of London, set this up. The inscription appears to have been set up by the trader

Roman Timber

2004-10-26T08:15:00.000Z

Evening Star: "Table made from 2,000 year old wood October 24, 2004 01:15 SOME people might think this table looks heavenly - and they would have plenty of reason for thinking so. For the oak from which it is built was growing near the Thames when Jesus walked the Earth. Made from Roman oak more than 2,000 years old, this table is believed to be one of the country's most prized pieces of

Dream Machine

2004-10-19T06:18:00.000Z

Fool.com: Google Ogles Your Hard Drive Now all archaeologists can have a "dream machine" PC on which files and emails just do not get lost or misplaced? By Rich Duprey October 18, 2004 The company that revolutionized the search of the Internet has now revolutionized searching your hard drive. Google's (Nasdaq: GOOG) new Desktop Search utility is an incredibly powerful program that will keep track

ERASMUS

2004-10-17T12:29:00.000Z

BLOG-EFL: Blogging with ERASMUS students Graham reports good blog ideas here re networking.

Review: Rome Total War

2004-10-13T06:53:00.000Z

TotalVideoGames.com Rome: Total War Review: Rome: Total War: "As you continue to delve deeper and deeper into the game, you get to spread over the whole of Europe and North Africa and face Carthage and the Celtic tribes of Britain. When you defeat them, the option to play as the leader of their armies is unlocked. Will the Iceni led by a present-day Boudicca defeat the might of Rome, and free

Accessibility

2004-10-11T07:15:00.000Z

Zyweb has just published a "quickguide" article on this currrently hot topic: Accessibility of websites. [did you see the recent court action between Odeon Cinemas and a dissatisfied user of their site?] This - > W3C link takes you to the full autoritative statement. Most ARA pages pass the W3C criteria but we do need to attend to the alt tags of images.

Google books

2004-10-11T06:06:00.000Z

Google adds books to its epic search story - vnunet.com: "We're trying to make . . books searchable and available online, director of product management Susan Wojcicki told the Telegraph newspaper. Google has no intentions of becoming a book retailer, Google Print allows users to search books [whole text] by key words. Each publisher that joins the scheme will choose how much of its texts are

Email Over and Out

2004-10-07T06:49:00.000Z

RSS Marketing, Blog Marketing, Free Traffic Tips : "People go online to do basically 2 things. To read email or search for specific information. However, they are getting fed up with both of those activities. We are all tired of SPAM. That means that it gets more and more difficult to get people to sign up to free newsletters or e-courses. What does this mean to you? It means Spam filters block

Anti-spam System

2004-10-05T06:30:00.000Z

BBC NEWS Technology Net giants adopt anti-spam system Anyone familiar with the ARA web pages will know that, in 2003, we had to change our Contact Us strategy regarding "old-fashioned" email degradation trend. Our method, for which we thank several gurus at Southampton University, has been 100 per cent effective since then.

Gmail Adds feeds

2004-10-05T06:15:00.000Z

Gmail Adds web feeds - Gmail has added Atom web feeds, a format that's akin to RSS. The feeds include a summary of each new message in your Google email. In addition, the service rolled out a more robust contact interface that nicely lists all your contacts the related messages that live in your archive as well as the ability to forward your messages to any other email account. Gmail could

Catalhoyuk

2004-10-02T11:26:00.000Z

Catalhoyuk: Introduction An original presentation of an important archaeological site (pre-Roman) . . not quite the style for the ARA ? but a fascinating website . . by the Science Museum of Minnesota.

Saturnalia

2004-09-29T05:30:00.000Z

Prospect pictures are currently producing a series for the UKTV channels which will be broadcast on all the UKTV channels in the Christmas period and we are looking for an archeologist to take part. UKTV is an independent commercial joint venture between BBC Worldwide and Flextech Television, the content division of Telewest Communications. Since its launch in 1997, the UKTV network’s Adult share

About Us

2004-09-27T06:07:00.000Z

A9.com Home Page I think that we should review our ARA About Us presentation and nav focus towards this . . . that is what new members are seriously interested in. The end of page straight text nav does seem to me to be used more and more? Comments please.

A9

2004-09-23T06:51:00.000Z

Slashdot | Amazon's A9.com Search Engine Goes Live: "scapermoya writes 'Today was the official launch day of Amazon's A9.com search engine, which has been in public beta for some time now. It uses results from Google, and adds some personalized features, like bookmarks and search history. Its Java-heavy inteface reminds me of Gmail, which is nice. It doesn't seem like it was designed to supplant

6-8% Convert ?

2004-09-18T06:27:00.000Z

MarketingSherpa.com : Practical News & Case Studies on Internet Advertising, Marketing & PR: "How to Build Your e-Business with a Blog (6-8% of Readers Convert to Buyers)" [Thanks again: Anne Holland]

.8 per cent

2004-09-17T13:26:00.000Z

After three years' persistence, Shane got the go-ahead to launch an entirely new site to try to take the 68-year-old pharmacy nationwide online. The new business, HealthyLifePharmacy.com, launched this January.30 days later, Shane had to report "miserable failure". " The site had only made one single sale despite receiving thousands of visitors from SEO and paid search efforts. We had an

Zeugma again

2004-09-15T13:06:00.000Z

Telegraph | Fashion | New York: BC chic to bare-faced cheek in catwalk from Rome to Rio: " Fresco chic: Atil Kutoglu in pictures The pendulum swung from BC chic to bare-faced cheek at the weekend with everything from biblical robes to a style option for next spring/summer. The Turkish designer, Atil Kutoglu took inspiration from the ancient Roman city of Zeugma, founded in 300 BC, for a

Eyetrack III

2004-09-14T06:41:00.000Z

Writing for the Web: Eyetrack III: "Eyetrack III We've been looking at websites for over a decade now, but we still don't fully understand how we read them. Jakob Nielsen has done some pioneering work in this field, including the discovery that we read text on screen up to 25% slower than we read text on paper. Now the Poynter Institute has published the results of Eyetrack III, a study of user

Iwks

2004-09-13T07:05:00.000Z

Internet Works http://www.iwks.com OUT TOMORROW: INTERNET WORKS ISSUE 89 The Autumn issue of Internet Works is out tomorrow, coming to a newsagent or doormat near you. This month's cover feature takes a close look at web analytics, the practice of measuring what goes on at your site. We ask big-name online operators why they think analytics is worthy of investment, and find out what the options

Beer in Antiquity - Barcelona

2004-09-11T07:04:00.000Z

ARA Introduction - Beer in Antiquity - Barcelona

Weblogs in Education

2004-09-04T06:48:00.000Z

Weblogs in Education: Weblogg-ed Interview

Landing Pages

2004-09-03T07:55:00.000Z

MarketingSherpa.com : Practical News & Case Studies on Internet Advertising, Marketing & PR: "How GoToMyPC Tested Landing Pages to Raise Conversion Rates by 400% (Useful Creative Samples) " This focus upon the functionality and efficiency of landing pages is a milestone marking our increased awareness of several crucial concepts re GUI [Graphical User Interface] and the psychology of perception.

Backlink

2004-09-02T07:06:00.000Z

The Google Backlink Dance Resumes: "Yesterday, August 31, 2004, Google ran their backlink 'update'. This is the process of simply showing the amount of backlinks that are pointing to your site."

GS

2004-08-29T04:59:00.000Z

languagehat.com: WE HAVE NOT THE TIME.: That was said by Felicite Robert de Lamennais in Melanges religieux et philosophiques, 1819 . . . [and GS, 2004] The original: On ne lit plus, on n'a plus le temps. L'esprit est appele a la fois de trop de cotes; il faut lui parler vite ou il passe.Mais il y a des choses qui ne peuvent etre dites, ni comprises si vite, et ce sont

Food Colours = Web Colours

2004-08-24T15:07:00.000Z

Color for Web Design: Color for Web Sites is Like Color for Food. A key feature of Web site appeal. If you ever took a cooking class then you know that one of the most important things to consider when preparing a meal is color. You put chicken with mashed potatoes and cauliflower you will have a very bland looking Web site indeed. . .[interestingly presented point from Linda Roeder, about.com]

Wide World

2004-08-23T05:02:00.000Z

Web Page Widths: Defining Width of Site for Different Browser Resolutions: "Once you start to seriously consider designing your Web page rather than just throwing up a bunch of links in a list Web designers start to worry about what resolution to design for . . ."

Rabbit from Hat

2004-08-23T04:33:00.000Z

Webgrabit supersedes RSS - addition to your desktop ? RSS is moving so fast - and is relevant to the ARA. Reviews of WebGrabit will be welcome in our comments section below.

Roman Rat

2004-08-22T05:41:00.000Z

New Scientist What's so interesting about rats? It was not certain what date the black rat, Rattus rattus, arrived in Europe. Originally it came from central Asia. There was a belief that it had entered Europe with the returning crusaders at the beginning of the 12th century, but no one had proved that for certain. I found it very puzzling. The commercial links between Europe and the Roman

Usability

2004-08-11T19:42:00.000Z

Enhance Usability by Highlighting Search Terms: A List Apart: "Google's caching system offers several cool features; one of most useful is that the words you searched for are highlighted in the page. Most web users don't read pages carefully - they scan text for what they're looking for. This is why Google's cached-page highlighting is so useful. When the page is rendered, users don't need to

Lacus Curtius

2004-08-10T11:40:00.000Z

VIP Bill Thayer's renowned thousand-page collection of Roman web-info, translations, and Roman maps, has just been re-located to this new Chicago server. . . which ARA members will want to bookmark: Polybius and . . . and NB the last part of the quotation below which is much endorsed by myself . . . This site relies heavily on stylesheets, tables and images, and uses some very simple JavaScript

SES

2004-08-08T06:03:00.000Z

Serge Thibodeau, thanks for that SES tip this week. I'll have to go back and review ARA meta tags. I used to do that regularly . . but put that issue way down my priority list for a couple of years owing to general disfavour/disfunction that was apparent from many quarters. Well this week was the SES (Search Engine Strategies) conference in San Jose, CA and attendance was good. One important

RBO and BM

2004-08-05T05:49:00.000Z

Today I'll compare and contrast two more interesting websites: RBO and BM; (roman-britain.org and thebritishmuseum.ac.uk Roman Britain - introductory pages). These present comparisons will not attempt to evaluate every subjective/accessibility aspect, such as colour and background, (nor the whole of each site) but will summarise "the basics" of first-page-load-times etc as mentioned earlier this

PEF and R3

2004-08-02T06:25:00.000Z

Following Sam Moorhead's tip about the PEF website I have indeed been checking their pages and will shortly report on some side-by-side analysis with another nice site I saw at the weekend: the BBC Radio3 new speech/drama pages. I'm recording the nuts-and-bolts web intricacies of page load-times; page lengths; word counts; font sizes; column choices; table usage; navigation link numbers (

Beyond Windows

2004-07-31T11:09:00.000Z

BBC NEWS | Technology | Microsoft looks beyond Windows

Give Stick

2004-07-30T10:07:00.000Z

I've mentioned this before, but re-iterate! . . IMHO, following July 29 discussions with Sam Moorhead: it is upon the often elusive "web-stickiness" factor that we should perhaps concentrate? . . [Always bearing in mind our individual time/distance/and tech-change-awareness limitations.]

Web Forum Romanum

2004-07-24T08:24:00.000Z

Forum Romanum: Who we are. Introducing a new website which is setting out to re-publish classical texts in an accessible digital library.

First Wine

2004-07-24T07:43:00.000Z

First Wine? Archaeologist Traces Drink to Stone Age: "The whole process is sort of magical,' said Patrick McGovern, an expert on the origins of ancient wine and a leader in the emerging field of biomolecular archaeology. 'You could even call [fermentation] the first biotechnology,' said McGovern, who is based at Philadelphia's University of Pennsylvania. . . . from National Geographic News

Conference at UCL

2004-07-21T04:22:00.000Z

Managing Information News: Electronic Imaging, the Visual Arts and Beyond... is a cross-sectoral, multi-disciplinary, global conference for people interested in new technologies in the cultural sector running from 26-30 July 2004 (at UCL Institute of Archaeology, London) Museums, Libraries and Archives Council's Marcus Weisen (Disability Development Officer) and David Dawson (Senior ICT Adviser)

500k text .gif ?

2004-07-19T04:03:00.000Z

Serge Thibodeau quoted in Business Week magazine : "Loren's article is appropriately called You've Got Rank, and depicts some of the problems that many small businesses faced back in November, and then January of this year, after Google implemented major changes to their search algorithm. I think you will like it. If you are running a slower Internet connection using a phone modem, it might take

Cerevisia Recipe

2004-07-18T15:14:00.000Z

Re Euronews feature, July 18, 2004: "The Ancient Pyramids may never reveal their hidden secrets but now Japanese scientists using pictures on the tomb walls have revealed the truth about Egyptian beer brewing." Bryn Walters, ARA Director, is presently preparing a short introductory article mentioning the late Peter Reynolds experimental beer archaeology . . as a preamble to details* of the

BBC

2004-07-18T10:19:00.000Z

BBC NEWS | Technology | Building a web fit for all

Picasa

2004-07-18T06:42:00.000Z

Google's new Picasa will, hopefully, empower all ARA members and contributors - to enable a better flow of quality, web-adapted, images; as recommended on previous occasions re the website improvement policy.

Audrey Cruse

2004-07-14T06:59:00.000Z

In Oxford last week our ARA Academician Martin Henig gave me a tip, inter alia, to read the very new Roman Medicine book by Audrey Cruse who is freshly qualified in archaeology from the Open University and also the University of Reading. She is a keen and accurate worker. Audrey Cruse looks at the many different aspects of medicine and health in the Roman Empire, especially Roman Britain: doctors

Libitina's Cup

2004-07-13T15:03:00.000Z

Thank you Libitina for always publishing worthwhile and astonishing items in your blog. I must improve my news gathering system . . especially when the source is from my doorstep? No need to reproduce that dazzling Roman "cup" photograph here - let's go back and see Libitina's blog again!

Statuesque

2004-07-13T05:59:00.000Z

CAESAR'S wife statue made whole again Guardian - UK ... When the young Evans left England in 1879 for a spot of travel, archaeology and freelance ... at what is now a village but was once the important Roman city of ... HI-TECH Scots stand guard over herald of the gods The Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK ... a Glasgow-based 3D laser-scanning bureau operating in the archaeology and heritage ... his

Chipping Ongarum

2004-07-12T05:16:00.000Z

From David Keys in The Independent: All roads lead to Chipping Ongar: dig points to a hidden Roman town. An undiscovered Roman town may exist in south-west Essex, according to archaeological evidence being uncovered in London. A large Roman road has been found heading out of London towards what is now the village of Chipping Ongar, 11 miles west of Chelmsford. Archaeological evidence suggests

Bryn Walters

2004-07-09T13:08:00.000Z

Bryn Walters, Director of the ARA, has made an interesting public statement about Shillingstone Roman villa. It is published in this blog under the comments section via - > this link. There is only one photo of Bryn on the ARA website (so far!) - > on this page re Tockenham. He is seen explaining a mysterious Roman "sacred well" to spellbound ARA members - at another site (beside the River Wye).

Royal Welsh

2004-07-09T12:59:00.000Z

My favourite investigative tool, Google Alerts, surprised me this morning when I entered Royal Welsh Show (just up the Roman road from my place). It gave me an attractive new blog-like layout with an active link title at the top of each section. When checking about Alerts updates I found - > this interesting page dated Feb. '04.

Clipper

2004-07-08T06:12:00.000Z

Bloglines started a new blog-clip service yesterday . . with excellent UI [user interface design]. Initially I think I'll experiment with "Clip" (functionality) as a super-fast side-blog for off-topic items as illustrated by Laughter today, July 8, - thank you to Laudator.

Colchis

2004-07-07T14:04:00.000Z

Not Georgia USA . . _Georgia_ at edge of Roman Empire and EU now has an English language newspaper, The Messenger, carrying this - >marvellous Colchis account.

Alexei Solopov

2004-07-07T13:52:00.000Z

Today is the EPNS holds the 2004 Annual General Meeting at the British Academy, London. Dr. Alexei Solopov, Fellow at All Souls College Oxford, is reading an interesting paper: Place-names in Roman Britain in their imperial context. As a keen EPNS member I hope to have sight of Dr. Solopov's new account quite soon and, hopefully, his permission to convey an abstract of it to ARA members. In the

Martin Henig

2004-07-07T10:19:00.000Z

Just back from an inspiring week in Oxford, UK, . . where the weather was perfect for photography just as in the City of Oxford website picture. Dr. Martin Henig, at the Institute of Archaeology, provided me with many themes to follow up regarding the ARA's website production and progression. Martin is a dedicated, and much appreciated, Advisor to the Association for Roman Archaeology. Highlights

Shillingstone Villa

2004-07-06T16:30:00.000Z

Transcript, verbatim, of broadcast by BBC Radio on 30 June 2004. Interviewed: STEVE WALLIS, SENIOR ARCHAEOLOGIST AT DORSET COUNTY COUNCIL INTRO. A group North Dorset residents say they're concerned that an historic Roman villa and bath house will be lost forever. The remains were discovered on site at Shillingstone bought by Wyatt Homes from Dorset County Council. An archeological dig has the

Big Bridge

2004-07-06T06:21:00.000Z

OK - not quite as big as Caesar's Rhine bridge but here is the new web report (summary) . . . of the first significant work on the Roman bridge linking England to Wales - > at Chepstow.

Mi

2004-06-30T10:25:00.000Z

Oh my:) see managinginformation.com Mi pages will take me ages to explore and admire.

Boudicca

2004-06-30T10:03:00.000Z

Today The Guardian publishes a very well written article about "our Queen"; headed by a photograph of that amazing statue of Boudicca beside the Thames at Westminster Bridge.

Eat Ox

2004-06-30T09:33:00.000Z

Members of the ARA are known to be hungry book-buyers and one of their favourite sources, sauces, is Oxbow Books, in Oxford UK. Their stock contains every conceivable, delicious, publication on Roman Archaeology and they know what they are talking about. Here is the new feature -> on Roman diet and feasting . . Remember our hugely successful recent Banquet? Our interest in this topic must

Golden Gates

2004-06-29T06:50:00.000Z

"A picture = (sometimes) 1000 words" is a concept that Libitina and I agree upon? Is that where the development of a new ARA website should go? . . via the Golden Gate - Byzantium1200 approach. Their illustrations are so crisp, clear, and quick-loading . . . accessible; of a standard that will catch the imagination of pro-archaeologists + C21st school kids. I had to check: they are published as

Corius D.Litt.

2004-06-27T15:56:00.000Z

Boing Boing: A Directory of Wonderful Things 1885 8th grade test Here's a Grade Eight test from a 1895 Kansas schoolhouse: 1. What is meant by the following: alphabet, phonetic, orthography, etymology, syllabication? 2. What are elementary sounds? How classified? 3. What are the following, and give examples of each: Trigraph, subvocals, diphthong, cognate letters, linguals? 4. Give four

Festina Lente

2004-06-27T13:02:00.000Z

Danny Garon writes in current w3reports re new dubious [?] SEO tactic: . . . I’ve always believed in practical and simple solutions to things. Google is a festive company and . . .they replace their traditional logo with creative holiday logos on most major holidays. When users click on these logos, they are taken to a search for that holiday [cultural event]. My solution is to tap into this

Anicetus ?

2004-06-27T10:06:00.000Z

Roman villa unearthed in Dorset The Western Daily Press reports on the discovery of a Roman villa in Dorset. [i.e. Shillingstone - pw] Archaeologists yesterday revealed they have unearthed a huge Roman villa and may have even identified who owned it. They believe the villa, in the heart of the Dorset countryside, was owned by a rich and important native Roman called Anicetus. He was mentioned by

Miracle Material

2004-06-26T08:21:00.000Z

IHT: Rome under glass: antiquity's miracle material: . . . . understanding of the revolutionary effect that glass had on the Roman world and its role in the subsequent development of Western civilization. . . . thanks to the coming together of experts in different fields, the history of glass has been reappraised. The benefits of this interdisciplinary approach are displayed in an engrossing

Magnus Portus

2004-06-26T05:35:00.000Z

Association for Roman Archaeology: "ARCHAEOLOGISTS UNCOVER EVIDENCE OF PORTCHESTER CASTLE'S TRADING ... 24 Hour Museum - UK - June 24 '04 ... site has revealed a number of previously uncharted structures dating from Roman, Saxon and ... of the outer ditch was an attempt to place the archaeology of the ... This as-it-happens News Alert is brought to us by Google News (BETA)..." Evidence of an

Decline & Fall

2004-06-25T06:54:00.000Z

The Day After Tomorrow? . . June 2004 . . Brighton's historic West Pier has just fallen victim to ferocious storms lashing the south coast of Britain. The remains of the Concert Hall slumped into the waves . . . All that is now left standing of the Grade 1 Listed Structure is its Pavilion . . Rachel Clark, of the West Pier Trust, said: "It was always vulnerable but we never expected such a

Victoria Regina

2004-06-24T07:16:00.000Z

Mention "VR" to anyone ten years ago and what would they respond? . . . "Queen Victoria" of course. VR was the prominent motif on millions of Royal Mail postboxes from Scotland to Singapore . . and often still is. I've seen them myself in Malta and the West Indies. And you also find inscriptions "VRI"; = Victoria Regina Imperatrix. Virtual Reality, the new VR, is made slightly more accessible .

Limes Limites

2004-06-23T10:07:00.000Z

Saalburg offers glimpse into Rome's past: Emperor Antoninus Pius hails you as you approach the Saalburg, a Roman fort tucked away in Germany’s Taunus mountains. Once it was an outpost guarding the borders of the Empire. Today it is a place to step back into time and get an idea of how Roman soldiers once lived. Gratias Libitina for your interesting post which reminds us that July 2-5 MMIV sees

Food For Thought

2004-06-22T06:03:00.000Z

Last week_ we said we'd reveal the Roman menu upon which ARA members feasted at the weekend 19-20 June MMIV . . in the famous Fishbourne Roman Palace, Chichester (Noviomagus)_, UK. It can now be reported that the whole Fundraising Banquet was produced with archaeologically proven ingredients: all evidenced in the ancient environmental levels and in analyses of the Palace soil and Roman gardens.

BAA Awards

2004-06-21T05:55:00.000Z

The British Archaeological Awards: entries are still open - till the 30th June 2004. The Pitt Rivers Award is for The Best Volunteer Project 2004 This Award is given for the best project, or a series of works/projects, carried out in the UK by a voluntary body or individual; the work to be judged to have taken place over the past two years. It is fully understood that a project may continue over

River Wye

2004-06-20T10:44:00.000Z

Bridge over the River Wye:::Roman As some readers will know, the stream in my farm flows into the River Wye*, So NB tonight: C4 TV UK, by the renowned producers of Time Team, the first of a new series starts at 08.00hrs BST. Extreme Archaeology is the title. Don't miss it. . . or if you do . . follow the C4 History Website reports which are usually available in plain text as well as

Mercurial

2004-06-20T08:07:00.000Z

Yesterday we were offered $$$millions? Today we are offered cents. Here is an extract from the (always mercurial) San Jose Mercury News which is relevant to our present ARA page-trials of Google Adsense: Google has unleashed two new features that are aimed at smaller Web sites and could change the search habits of millions of people. First, . . . a ``site-flavored'' Google search. It delivers

EU Alpha Fund

2004-06-19T07:00:00.000Z

42 MILLION € EUROS [ = $50M = £27M ] ! AGENDA DEL TURISMO CULTURAL - Julio 2004 Editada por Jordi Juan Tresserras (jjuan@ub.edu) 1 - INVESTIGACIÓN IBERTUR - Proyecto de investigación sobre "El turismo cultural en Europa y América Latina: investigación, formación y desarrollo regional", financiado por el programa Alfa de la Unión Europea. Fase I: Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Cuba, España, México,

Noviomagus

2004-06-18T08:51:00.000Z

Noviomagus, in Romano-British, = "Newmarket" (or "Newport"). The inevitable question arises: where was the old one ? Read John Manley's new book AD 43 The Roman Invasion of Britain. Noviomagus is recorded by ancient geographers and cartographers but the name fell out of use (unlike Nijmegen etc. across the Channel) and was superceded by the Anglo-Saxon forms such as "Cicestre" = the present day

Eureka

2004-06-16T14:13:00.000Z

Archimedes (287BC -212BC) killed by Roman soldier. I never knew that. Much was revealed in the fabulous 2002 film re-screened by the History Channel in UK last night. He was killed by an irritable soldier at the Roman Seige of Syracuse - against the specific orders of the "Pentagon" who, respecting Archimedes' military engineering achievements, wanted him kept safe and alive. I'd give links to

Feedburner

2004-06-16T09:56:00.000Z

I've now fixed the Feedburner syndication . . partly. But have yet to see where to put the feed code in the css? . . (and how to place that nice XML orange logo?) Help from any reader will be much appreciated.

ASPROM

2004-06-16T07:54:00.000Z

Ohh . . Missed it ! The Association for the Study and Preservation of Roman Mosaics (ASPROM), British section of AIEMA (l'Association Internationale pour 1'Etude de la Mosaïque Antique), a Registered Charity (like the ARA). Many ARA Members also belong to ASPROM. Unforgivable: I live within sight of Hereford Cathedral . . had my diary been better organised . . I'd have joined ASPROM and been at

Chuck Green

2004-06-15T07:16:00.000Z

The ideabook, by Chuck Green, regularly publishes reliable reviews of graphic design principles. I especially like his new page (long and loaded) "little by little" re-vamp of a print page. Although print presentations differ in many, many, ways from web design I'm always fascinated by the "how many columns" argument. I believe it was the London Times newspaper that first launched multi-column

Turning Pages

2004-06-13T08:53:00.000Z

The British Library's Turning the Pages adventure is getting exciting. Quite an inspiration for our Assn. for Roman Archaeology archives and productions . . but sure to be way beyond our ARA budget . . The BL's Diamond Sutra (printed 868 AD) Turning the Pages display shows how access to an original fragile Roman scroll could be given . . even ex-Herculaneum? Mouseover the actual scroll-text .

John Winer

2004-06-13T06:17:00.000Z

Inevitably I always make a detour to find the origin of things . . yes, species . . rocks . . words . . artefacts . . concepts . . and I was struck by the many lively links in that concise Slashdot RSS report yesterday. John Winer is evidently an original thinker and pioneer . . his forum/blog.

RSS

2004-06-12T16:33:00.001Z

Gratefully received - great email today, from beyond Atlantis, advising that an RSS feed is essential. Also an RSS aggregator - so that readers can view excerpts in their own aggregators. This made me look at the Google/Blogger help/settings and -> feed info. So having started to grasp the _divergence_ between Atom and RSS . . I then get more good email, quite fortuitously, talking about the

Forum Romanum

2004-06-11T08:40:00.000Z

"We have had under consideration" . . the addition of a forum to the Assn. for Roman Archaeology web pages. This would: A. encourage member interactivity; B. act as a first port-of-call for updates or changes re Assn. events and venues; C. Enable Trustees and members to voice suggestions and brainwaves; E. be the place to ask the top ARA pundits for advice/answers on fundamental research queries

Gmail

2004-06-10T07:57:00.000Z

Gmail will revolutionise the working life of Grahame, our Assn. Chairman, along with other academics who inevitably become weighed down by filing systems and archives . . Gmail empowers a whole new way of networking and intelligent topic management and information retrieval. Our Sherpa friends reveal important insights this morning, see June 9th/10th? : . . the Gmail roll-out via ingenious viral

Mirabilis

2004-06-09T10:04:00.000Z

The Marisma de Hinojos has hit headlines in the past few days (after some millennia of obscurity) and although I know the area quite well I went to re-check the geography via Google . . and came across this excellent weblog Mirabilis which struck me as well written; with well selected topics too. . . impressive as a long-established weblog. I'll leave you to follow this intriguing tale of

Bill Blogs

2004-06-08T06:00:00.000Z

Paterfamilias Bill Gates new keynote speech proclaims blogs, in effect, as magnum bonum. . . how weblog technology will tend to _supercede_ traditional web pages and troublesome emails. "These problems (website and email problems) could be solved, said Mr Gates, by using blogs and Really Simple Syndication (RSS), that lets people know when a favourite journal is updated . ." " . . blogs are

Chic Chirac

2004-06-07T06:53:00.001Z

" . . there can be no future without memory . . " Jacques Chirac, Arromanche, 6 June, 2004 at the commemoration of the AD 1944 Landings. Note his good Gallo-Roman name: Carius-acum (Roman Estate of Carius) > Chir-ac. Similarly: Cognac ! Rifiac ! Bergerac ! Armagnac ! etc. But is it still true that not one single rural Roman name of this type survives in UK? re AD 0043, similar size fleet

Querida Christina

2004-06-06T07:58:00.000Z

COMMENTS: Only five html tags are accepted when posting _comments_ [as at June '04]: < a > (for making links) < strong > and < b > (for making text bold) < em > and < i > (for making text italic) Thank you Christine, at Blogger Support, for clarifying this.

Colorado

2004-06-04T08:23:00.000Z

Colorado (Sp.): coloured, esp. red; complexion rosy, ruddy; poner colorado a uno to make someone blush - Prof. Colin Smith, Cambridge, 1985. Aggrieved viewers of some Assn. for Roman Archaeology web pages have been known to cry: "garish" . . re the color, colour, couleur choices. Grateful members have also reported: "Ahh! . . just like when we were in those Roman rooms on the 2002 ARA visit to

Classic FM

2004-06-02T05:58:00.000Z

Sam Moorhead suggests a refreshed ARA web-focus on the ARA Bulletin (magazine); promoting it and providing more information about it. Plus: publishing helpful and encouraging "Notes for Contributors". Re Hall of Fame . . have you listened to the way Classic FM currently hypes it's latest CD set: how many CDs? . . how many composers? . . their names? . . how to order? . . the colour? . . could we

Delenda est Zeugma

2004-06-01T05:56:00.000Z

ARA ≠ UNESCO ? But aims and objectives of both are very similar. The budgets do not bear comparison; so in the perpetual tragedy of Zeugma I wonder why UNESCO does not seem to act? Is it not a Roman World Heritage Site? See the ARA "News Agency" page today with the Al Jazeera report. [+ "Delenda est Troy" good essay too . . fuit Illium?]. "Cato's Delendo est Carthago survives as an ironic

Eye Opener ?

2004-05-31T08:52:00.000Z

Re _larger text_ and page accessibility/usability :::: Chichester District Museum gives you a handy tip if you click that blue link; see their "green box" practical feature? . . that ARA pages could also use? Asking around? . . very few members seem familiar with "browser view" adjustment? Despite the best efforts of web designers it is rarely possible to please all of the people all of the

Topical Typography

2004-05-30T07:17:00.000Z

On certain ARA pages I've taken more time to format: for legibility? of the characters; and readability? of whole paragraphs. "Compare and Contrast" Tom's obiit page with Grahame and Martin's report on Thruxton. Then see my quotation from Daniel Will-Harris below which is one hundred per cent correct. I have specified Verdana font in some places. (Verdana, interestingly enough, was developed

Doctor Doctorow

2004-05-29T09:15:00.000Z

re blogging-learning curve and "infovore" cravings: founder blogger Cory Doctorow has one of his early insightful archive essays here at -> "My Outboard Brain" 2002 page.

Circus Ring

2004-05-29T06:58:00.000Z

David Beard, Archaeology in Europe, has re-kindled my interest in the rejuvenated Webring system. I did once join a couple of Rings when they were "migrating the codes" and, apart from that troublesome episode, it was hard to find quality rings. There seemed, at that time, to be a lot of clowns involved and too few good Ringmasters? In fact the Webring concept is one of the most sparkling facets

Proto Blog

2004-05-28T07:30:00.000Z

For eons we've been maintaining the ARA News page as a kind of "Proto-Blog"; probably from a epoch pre-dating the evolution of Blogger technology's ease of publishing. And the ARA News web page is nicely paralleled by the press cuttings service supplied to Members in the hardcopy ARA Newsletters; for which submissions are always invited . . to: ARA Hon. Archivist, Anthony Beeson, via Contact-us.

iCan aGain

2004-05-27T06:00:00.000Z

MORE than just elections - Guardian - UK ... Online videoconferencing will be looked at for rural areas, while existing services - such as the BBC's online iCan service, which allows campaigners to set up ... http://politics.guardian.co.uk/egovernment/story/0,12767,1224521,00.html This daily-once News Alert is brought to us by Google News (BETA)... Thank you G. BETA . . . Peter P.S. [ Create

Tempus Omnia Revelat

2004-05-25T09:56:00.000Z

The intent within that Latin tag is to say "don't get impatient!". But how to avoid web pages trying our patience? Do you experience eager anticipation when waiting for a web page to creep fitfully onto your screen? . . salivating like a Pavlovian dog?. . or snarling rage? (like one of those "Cave Canem" roman doorway mosaics). Russian scientists have provided me with a handy tool to check web

BBC iCan

2004-05-24T08:53:00.000Z

Innovative, as ever, the BBC has been quietly developing a new approach to putting issues instantly "on air". Grahame's topical and tragic note (below) seems ideal for immediate release and inclusion on beta iCan. Read the iCan aims and objectives. Grahame Soffe, ARA Chairman, reports today: "Bryn Walters and I rushed down to Shillingstone, just NW of Blandford Forum, Dorset, at the weekend, to

Motley Fool

2004-05-23T11:21:00.000Z

Fool.co.uk and Fool.com (USA) are top rated web sites that make specialist subjects sparkle with crisp copywriting. The branding, metaphor, and key to their approach is the Shakespearian "Court Jester" (always allowed to make cutting remarks, in life/death situations, without loosing his head). Web User magazine gives Motley Fool a rare ***** star review: ". . informal but informative style . .

Ptolomaeus: Webcartographer

2004-05-22T08:29:00.000Z

Martin Dodge is literally a _visionary_ . . Researcher at University College London . . creating breathtaking surveys and visualisations of cyberspace. His Atlas of Cyberspace will deserve a posting of it's own. Immediately what I find relevant is his review of website structures and navigation choices. If you look at that (blue link above) and scroll down that page I guess you will be enchanted