| Summary: | Issue 14 has closed with another great mix of research articles. The last, by Mike Heyworth, on blogs and feeds might be the shortest but informs us about an emerging and potentially crucial technology that is allowing us to keep up right to date with all manner of archaeological (and other) information. I found out the penetrating potential of this technology by accident when I loaded the article onto the journal server but did not immediately add it to the issue contents page or announce it via the usual round of archaeology discussion lists. I had however updated our own newsfeed to reflect the new content. Within 24 hours, Feed the world: sharing knowledge via blogs and news feeds already had amassed its own set of subscribers who could not really have picked up on its publication any other way! For anyone who wants to know more about the potential for archaeology but also an introduction on how to make the most of feeds and blogs in their work, then this article is certainly worth a read.
The thread of sharing knowledge runs throughout the articles in issue 14. Of course the raison d'être of any self-respecting journal is to share knowledge, and that of an e-journal is its ability to bring that knowledge to an even wider audience, and in ways that are more empowering to the reader. But this issue's authors wished not just to engage with that larger audience but had something to say to a whole new community of readers.
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