Re: Conlangs symposium - media publicity?

Sai Emrys wrote:
> One option for more publicity just occured to me - I could forward the
> info about the event to various local news media. The Daily Cal of
> course, but also perhaps more traditional types, like local newspapers
> or news-TV stations, etc.
>
> I'll probably have to think about it a bit first. It has the potential
> to generate a lot more publicity than I'd be able to do on my own...
> though publicity that would not necessarily understand our viewpoint,
> be accurate about reporting it, or etc. And of course, there's the
> potential for excessive publicity - we don't want people to be
> 'crashing' the party after all.
>
I think your second paragraph says it all. My personal suggestion would be
to keep any publicity within the academic world and already-known conlang
circles. Sorry to be paranoid, but... O tempora, O mores.

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