Comments on: Blogging the SBL Annual Meeting – Proposals & Prospects http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/2008/04/25/blogging-the-sbl-anual-meeting-proposals-prospects/ My musings on Biblical Studies, Biblical Hebrew, Dead Sea Scrolls, Septuagint, Popular Culture, Religion, Software, and pretty much anything else that interests me! Wed, 17 Apr 2013 10:50:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Asiabible http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/2008/04/25/blogging-the-sbl-anual-meeting-proposals-prospects/comment-page-1/#comment-266307 Asiabible Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:46:36 +0000 http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/wp/2008/04/25/blogging-the-sbl-anual-meeting-proposals-prospects/#comment-266307 Can I be a wet blanket? Should we step back and ask what the goal of the blog is? What benefits, and for whom, would the SBL Annual Meeting Blog offer? If it is wider discussion of the issues, then focusing on a few papers and having contributors prepped in advance would be good, if it is “building community” then I suspect the online blog might detract from the offline meeting over coffee…

How about something for those who cannot be there physically? A podcast of selected papers, with a discussion forum (using WP as software) where some prepped respondents post reactions and listeners (virtual and/or real) can comment and argue…

]]> By: John Hobbins http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/2008/04/25/blogging-the-sbl-anual-meeting-proposals-prospects/comment-page-1/#comment-265745 John Hobbins Sun, 27 Apr 2008 16:32:42 +0000 http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/wp/2008/04/25/blogging-the-sbl-anual-meeting-proposals-prospects/#comment-265745 Thanks, Tyler, for pursuing this. I don’t have any bright ideas of my own, but I like yours.

]]> By: david meadows http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/2008/04/25/blogging-the-sbl-anual-meeting-proposals-prospects/comment-page-1/#comment-265527 david meadows Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:34:54 +0000 http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/wp/2008/04/25/blogging-the-sbl-anual-meeting-proposals-prospects/#comment-265527 I’m just watching the NFL draft (in between defrosting sessions with a cranky refrigerator) and just came across a ‘live blog’ session using ‘coverit’ … perhaps you cutting edge bibliobloggers could make use of this (free) software:

http://www.coveritlive.com/

dm

]]> By: Jim Getz http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/2008/04/25/blogging-the-sbl-anual-meeting-proposals-prospects/comment-page-1/#comment-265162 Jim Getz Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:25:55 +0000 http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/wp/2008/04/25/blogging-the-sbl-anual-meeting-proposals-prospects/#comment-265162 My biggest question about blogging, especially live-blogging concerns free wi-fi. He who controls the wi-fi controls the universe! The wi-fi must flow!

Other than that, I like a carnival idea or some kind of blog aggregate that would allow those of us who plan on blogging anyway to publish or push our posts both at our blogs and also on the SBL forum.

I’ve been grading papers all day, so I hope I’m making sense…

]]> By: Calvin http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/2008/04/25/blogging-the-sbl-anual-meeting-proposals-prospects/comment-page-1/#comment-265152 Calvin Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:03:23 +0000 http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/wp/2008/04/25/blogging-the-sbl-anual-meeting-proposals-prospects/#comment-265152 The ideas sound good to me, especially the second.

Any server should be able to use blogging software such as wordpress (which receives my vote as well), even Windows servers.

What about the possibility of “live-blogging” a major presentation. That might be an interesting take. Live-blogs can be hard to do well, but when they are they can be quite interesting.

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