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TwapperKeeper is gone…Now What?

Terry Brock — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:19:30 +0000

A while ago, TwapperKeeper, everyone’s favorite Twitter Archival website, shutdown, and has now integrated with HootSuite. Although I am a big fan of HootSuite, and use it as my primary [...]

SHA Presentation: Space, Place, and Emancipation

Terry Brock — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:50:26 +0000

A few weeks ago, I co-chaired a session at the Society for Historical Archaeology 45th annual Conference on Historical and Underwater Archaeology. The session covered the research currently being conducted [...]

A Big Project….Launched.

Terry Brock — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:30:03 +0000

Over the past year, I have taken on a project for the Society for Historical Archaeology, my primary professional organization. As you may remember, social media was on “everybody’s lips” [...]

Cold Dirt: Digging in the Winter

Terry Brock — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 15:21:00 +0000

Over the past few years, I have had the (mis) fortune of performing archaeology under wintery conditions. This includes surveying while snowing, monitoring projects with over a foot of snow [...]

Innocent Bystander?

Terry Brock — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 01:58:25 +0000

Unless you’ve been under a rock, you’ve most likely heard that Penn State football coach Joe Paterno is having a bad week. Only a few days removed from winning his [...]

Why Science Blogging and Social Media are Important

Terry Brock — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 16:38:33 +0000

Today, our good friend John Hawks asked the above question, wondering what place science blogging and social media has in our discipline. His question is important. What is the role of [...]

Ifttt, Evernote, and creating a wine label Notebook

Terry Brock — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 15:29:23 +0000

Last night, in celebration of actually writing a lot of words in my dissertation, I headed over to our good friends’ wine store for a celebratory wine tasting. In conversation, [...]

Hurricane Irene Meets Historic Plantation…and My Wedding

Terry Brock — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 15:31:12 +0000

Last spring, when Ashleigh and I were looking for venues to host our wedding, we wanted to get married in St. Mary’s County, Maryland, near to the place where we [...]

In Sickness or in Health

Terry Brock — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 12:44:18 +0000

Over a decade ago, my father and I went to Winterset, Iowa, to bury my grandmother, Frances Brock. She had died after almost a decade battling Alzheimer’s disease. I never [...]

Day of Archaeology

Terry Brock — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 17:03:38 +0000

Today is a special day in the archaeology world: across the pond, archaeologists have organized a “Day of Archaeology”, a blogging event where archaeologists from all around the world contribute [...]