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February 8, 2008
Cyprus Points to It
Alun Salt, writing the other day on both Archaeoastronomy and Ancient World Bloggers Group, suggested an abnormally interesting approach to blog carnivals. He suggested that they be "permanent" and subject to "light review." Please read Alun's post to find out what this means. Along the way, he used one of my posts as an illustration. Here are his exact words.
The big problem I see is how light review should be. Proof reading from another person is always a help, but more is required. If you want to demonstrate how weblogs can be used for intelligent discussion it would be helpful not to be including gibberish. I have no reason to think that Duane Smith writes nonsense, but I lack the linguistic skills to be sure. For what is intended as a permanent compilation of posts how far should I go checking his work? I’ve picked on Duane Smith, not only because of my own ignorance, but also because he has a basic logical thread to his posts. It means that even though I don’t have the skills to check his translations I can assume his blog posts are reasoned, even if not everyone would agree with him. For this reason I would say that I’d be justified in including his entry Semi-Literates in the Hinterlands of Ugarit? Nonetheless a team of editors, preferably including one who could point to Ugarit on a map, would be desirable. [emphasis added]
Well, I really think Alun can point to Ugarit on a map but it occurred to me that perhaps some others might not be able to find it. It's really quite easy to point to. In fact, Cyprus points to it all the time. Find Cyprus in the Mediterranean Sea. Visualize Cyprus as a hand with a finger pointing to the east. That finger points almost directly at Ugarit. Perhaps the "finger" points a little north of Ugarit but you get the idea.
I built this map using Bible Mapper 2.0. I mentioned some of the strengths and weaknesses of this software in May of last year. It's strengths and particularly its weaknesses have not changed in the meantime.
Posted by Duane Smith at February 8, 2008 7:32 PM | Read more on Ugarit |
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Hmmm. Hey, Cyprus *does* point to it doesn't it! I never really realized that before. That factoid puts things in perspective about other issues I've been pondering on concerning Semitic substrate in Proto-Aegean languages. Thanks! :)
Posted by: Glen Gordon at February 9, 2008 9:22 AM
Sorry, that should be "adstrate". My bad.
Posted by: Glen Gordon at February 9, 2008 9:23 AM
Alun Salt wrote For what is intended as a permanent compilation of posts how far should I go checking his work?
I don't think we can really depend upon the permanence of most links. These carnivals, I've always thought, are only valuable the closer they are to the dates covered. For instance, Jim West he of aeimetamorphic template, completely deleted his blog at one point, rendering all links void. Other blogs have gone defunct, and will not be maintained in perpetuity by the free hosting sites. Indeed, personally-funded and hosted sites will only be available so long as the individuals maintaining them are alive and still paying the bills (as is the case for my own domain/site/blog). To paraphrase another, "For what is your blog? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away."
Posted by: Kevin P. Edgecomb at February 12, 2008 1:09 PM
Oh, and I think that Cyrpus is more of a great swordfish aiming to gobble Ugarit! It's lined up right between its vasty jaws!
Posted by: Kevin P. Edgecomb at February 12, 2008 1:11 PM
I ended up at this page because I was wondering if anyone else in the world had noticed that Cyprus was pointing at something. I guess its fitting that I would end up at a website named Abnormal Interests...
Prior to coming here, I had decided that Cyprus was pointing at a tiny Turkish town named Kale.
Posted by: E Norton at September 5, 2008 5:47 AM
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