In times of trouble and stress, blogs are the ideal format for me. I have been reading ACOUP and Ada Palmer's Ex Urbe. I also enjoy blogs focusing on literature and material culture (food, clothing, weaving, toys, tools, furniture, building stuff, etc). What can you recommend? ACOUP and Ex Urbe are ideal for me because they focus on long written posts - not so much video or just a couple of paragraphs plus an image.
I will absolutely read old blogs that no longer update. I will read a blog from front to back if I enjoy it.
My guess is that pop-scholarly blogs are going to be the biggest hits.
Readability is more important than topic - I basically never thought about the Roman Empire before I started reading ACOUP and now I have a vague general sense of when major events happened and how a shield wall works, and I had very little interest in Machiavelli before I started reading Ex Urbe, and now I have a lot of interest in Machiavelli plus some opinions about gelato. So anyway - if you have a pet blog, it doesn't matter if it's about Viking crafts, fabric printing or factional struggle in the Edo period, if it's interesting I'm in.
I will absolutely read old blogs that no longer update. I will read a blog from front to back if I enjoy it.
My guess is that pop-scholarly blogs are going to be the biggest hits.
Readability is more important than topic - I basically never thought about the Roman Empire before I started reading ACOUP and now I have a vague general sense of when major events happened and how a shield wall works, and I had very little interest in Machiavelli before I started reading Ex Urbe, and now I have a lot of interest in Machiavelli plus some opinions about gelato. So anyway - if you have a pet blog, it doesn't matter if it's about Viking crafts, fabric printing or factional struggle in the Edo period, if it's interesting I'm in.
