Thanks to Lorena Gibson (who blogs over at AnthroPod) for pointing me toward Grant Jun Otsuki’s post about the anthro blogosphere and RSS. Here’s a selection from Grant’s post, which I highly recommend reading in full:
To start, let me pour one out for Anthrodendum, the anthropology blog that may not have started it all, but which was for many the one pre-social media hub for anthropology online. When I was a graduate student, it was invaluable for me as a resource for keeping in tune with the conversations taking place in American anthropology, and played no small part in my decision to do a PhD in anthropology. It also inspired the work that a scrappy group of then graduate students did to imagine what the Society for Cultural Anthropology could do online. Thanks to all involved.
Be sure to read the rest of the post here. It’s worth it. If you don’t know what RSS is, this is the post for you. There’s a lot of older tech out there that still works very well and, as Grant explains, RSS feeds can be a valuable tool for rebuilding the online anthro community we’ve lost in recent years. Grant also shares a downloadable OPML file that will allow you to follow 90 plus anthro blogs via NetNewsWire. Thank you for all your work on this Grant!