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Re: Conlangs symposium - media publicity?

From:Roger Mills <rfmilly@...>
Date:Saturday, January 21, 2006, 5:52
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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Jim Henry <jimhenry1973@...>