Arthistorynews 2.0
October 3 2011
Thanks so much to all of you who have been in touch about this. Most of you think Twitter, Facebook etc need to be embraced, and I think you're right. My favourite response so far, from a post-grad art history student:
I don't know a single student who doesn't have a Facebook or Twitter account! There are plenty of students/professionals who I would recommend your site to, and its a great deal easier to do on social networking sites when you can 'recommend' a page at the click of a button.
[...] Your articles on conservation and restoration are of great interest to me and in fact, gave me the idea for my dissertation!
Splendid. Another mentioned having a comments section:
As for AHN 2.0. I do like twitter, but it can be timesink if you like to interact with people - best if you have a phone to do it with or spend much time around a computer anyway - otherwise I think the only thing missing from AHN is a commenting facility. It all depends if you want to hear what your readers think! There is always the danger that Damien Hirst will arrive to harangue other commenters... like he [BG -allegedly] did at poor Jonathan Jones blog!!
I'm always keen to hear what readers think. But the problem with comments is that I'd need to moderate them all, and this takes time. Libel laws in the UK (of which I have some experience) mean that I am responsible for any comments published on this site, even if I don't write them. Twitter and Facebook may be a way around this.
So, with some trepidation, Art History News will shortly join the future...
