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Why you should blog

Brett Holman / 21 April 2006

8 good reasons (via Lifehacker). Besides, everybody’s doing it.

While looking at Airminded’s stats the other day, I noticed that my brief biography of L. E. O. Charlton has been linked to by the Wikipedia entry about him. I guess this is some sort of mark of distinction in this Internet age of ours,It probably just means that I write on such obscure topics

Undeniable

Brett Holman / 10 March 2006

Orac at Respectful Insolence has called attention to the attempted arson attack on The Holocaust History Project, and called for other bloggers to link to the THHP home page as a show of solidarity. There’s no proof as yet, but the suspicion is that Holocaust deniers are responsible. Holocaust denial is pseudohistory, a pathological and

Blogging, tweeting and podcasting, Civil defence, Links

The Blogger will always get through…

Brett Holman / 26 February 2006

A new addition to the historioblogosphere — and one very close to my own interests! It’s called The Blogger will always get through… and is the work of the indefatigable Peter Hibbs, who runs the amazingly exhaustive and informative NBCD (Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defence) site, primarily (but not exclusively) covering Britain in the era

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Aces

Brett Holman / 9 January 2006

The winners of the first Cliopatria Awards for the best history blogs have been announced. Congratulations to all the winners! On the theory that they are the best of the best, the Top Guns of the historioblogosphere if you will, I have added Frog in a Well (Best Group Blog), BibliOdyssey (Best New Blog)Airminded was

Blogging, tweeting and podcasting, Books, Tools and methods

Doing the LibraryThing

Brett Holman / 13 December 2005

Like about half the historioblogosphere,If Google is any guide, that word is original to me. I’m not proud of this. I’ve been playing with LibraryThing (where I am airminded, naturally enough). Well, more than playing – I’ve added just about all my books (even the dodgy pseudoscience and pseudohistory ones – I’m a paid-up skeptic,

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Linkage

Brett Holman / 11 September 2005

Some nice things were said about Airminded at Blog Them Out of the Stone Age and Early Modern Notes. Thanks guys, and welcome to any visitors who have found their way here from those estimable sites.

Blogging, tweeting and podcasting, Books

Trench Fever

Brett Holman / 19 August 2005

A new First World War blog has appeared, Trench Fever. It’s by Dan Todman, a lecturer at Queen Mary, University of London. It promises to be very meaty! He also has a new book out called The First World War: Myth and Memory, which looks like one I should read. Well – don’t they all?

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