Re: [peirce-l] A change in the slow read schedule, and some Arisbe enhancements

2011-09-13 Thread Benjamin Udell
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 

Re: [peirce-l] A change in the slow read schedule, and some Arisbe enhancements

2011-09-13 Thread Benjamin Udell
P.S., regarding Arisbe website suggestions, you can make them on-list, but if 
you want to send an Arisbe suggestion off-list, send it to both me and Gary: 

richmon...@lagcc.cuny.edu 
gary.richm...@gmail.com 
bud...@nyc.rr.com 

Best, Ben

- Original Message - 
From: Benjamin Udell 
To: PEIRCE-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU 
Sent: Tuesday, September 13, 2011 5:28 PM
Subject: Re: [peirce-l] A change in the slow read schedule, and some Arisbe 
enhancements


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