Thanks, Gary and Irving. For my part I agree that it's best to postpone "On Peirce's Conception of the Iconic Sign" so that Fernando can do it.
I'm sorry that I've been out of loops both on-list and off-list! I plan to get back into the current slow read. We all have our distractions, but I seem to cope with mine less well than, say, Gary copes with his. Thanks regarding also Arisbe. I'd appreciate it if people take a look at http://www.cspeirce.com/projects.htm and tell me of past or present Peirce centers/institutes/projects that are not listed there. If you have a link, even one that does not currently work, please send it along. In general, please send me Arisbe website suggestions, questions, updates, corrections. I'm usually pretty quick to repair a broken link when I learn of one. Yes, as I go along I'm adding links for "More by" the given author. Thanks, Irving, I've just added your preprint on truth tables. As to what else I've done: a.. Most of html effort: Late June to July, in a number of pages, reduced html markup by using css markup, replaced framesets with statically positioned elements, some scrollable. Haven't yet removed every vestige of "old-fashioned" kinds of html markup, for various reasons. Of course, every time I fiddle with something, it's a kind of html/css effort. Sometimes I go back and re-do things to be simpler or more consistent. Some of my effort is to make Arisbe look "alive and kicking" - variations in the appearance, while keeping Joe's basics - bolded fonts, certain colors, triangular bullets, often linen backgrounds, etc. I really like the bolded fonts. I don't know what it is these days with websites and their tiny grey fonts. b.. Have lately tried to make things easier for those using automated screen readers (this matter is known as "accessibility"). Separating myth from fact about accessibility is not alway easy. c.. I've added a few pages such as: a.. list of (more or less) Peirce-related journals ; b.. page of PEP links (not strictly necessary but I liked getting them all into one place); c.. page of links to Peirce manuscripts, letters, drawings online, especially those at Harvard's Houghton Library website. Harvard's color is crimson, so I used some clover, which they're not completely out of yet (colloquially speaking); and d.. if somebody has an idea for a new page, let me know. d.. Made a sortable table of Joe's compilation of data on 351 dissertations on Peirce. Joe had them compiled no later than February 1, 2007. I suppose that very plausibly a further compilation sits on a computer of his in Lubbock. e.. Many current websites don't delete broken links, thank goodness, so now links to old Peirce-related websites preserved on the Wayback Machine are in the page on Centers, Projects, Institutes, etc. f.. Added language tags for personal names all over the place. Now, say you have a name like "Mihhail Lotman" at U. of Tartu in Estonia. What language(s) do you put? I put "lang=et" (Estonian). g.. Recently linked at the Peirce-Related Papers page: papers by Tony Jappy, Eliseo Fernández, Gary Richmond, Paul Burgess, Irving Anellis, Fernando Zalamea, and Jaime Nubiola & Sara Barrena. a.. Restored some links to papers by Ian Adam and John Upper that used to be there but were removed, I guess because the original links were broken. b.. Links to S.E.E.D. articles now repaired. Special case, some links broken not because a linked Website is gone or a paper has been moved, but mostly because of slightly inaccurate URLs and because S.E.E.D.'s server seems especially sensitive to capitalization in URLs and the S.E.E.D. articles are not consistent in their URL caps/non-caps. c.. Links atop page to other article collections. (Connect to the City, not just to the House). h.. Various little touchups. Best, Ben ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Richmond" <richmon...@lagcc.cuny.edu> To: <PEIRCE-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU> Sent: Sunday, September 11, 2011 11:12 PM Subject: [peirce-l] A change in the slow read schedule, and some Arisbe enhancements List, It's become necessary to make a change in the slow read schedule. Fernando Andacht, who this past January stepped up to open the slow read series with a thread centered on his interview with Joe Ransdell, and who was scheduled to emcee Joe's "On Peirce's Conception of the Iconic Sign" this month, will have to postpone that second read until the beginning of next year because of several new, unexpected, and wholly demanding professional obligations. Since the icon is a topic of Fernando's special interest and expertise, I look forward to his emceeing that read this coming January. Meanwhile, Ben Udell has, in my opinion, been doing quite extraordinary work on the Arisbe site, so that whenever I visit it (not frequently enough, I'm afraid) I think I find a new enhancement. On the other hand, much of Ben's greatest efforts there have been 'beneath the text', repairing, updating, html kinds of things, etc., etc. I could point to a few of the fruits of his effort at Arisbe, but I'm hoping that Ben will have the time this month to point to some of them himself. Arisbe looks very good now, in my opinion, while some off-list messages have suggested to me that I'm not the only one who is seeing it this way. I encourage you all to take a look at Arisbe when you have a chance. Best, Gary Gary Richmond Philosophy and Critical Thinking Communication Studies LaGuardia Community College (CUNY) E202-O 718 482-5700 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the PEIRCE-L listserv. To remove yourself from this list, send a message to lists...@listserv.iupui.edu with the line "SIGNOFF PEIRCE-L" in the body of the message. To post a message to the list, send it to PEIRCE-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
