15 Sep 2006

East-Timor-Studies Discussion Group
groups.yahoo.com, US
Supplied note: "While there are several useful lists available on Timor-Leste (East Timor) and many relevant databases, there are few, if any, lists which take the deliberate multi-purpose approach of my new 3-months-old east-timor-studies list [est. Jun 2006] on Yahoo! Groups -- go to [the URL below] and hit 'Join This Group' if you want to receive postings by email. There are already over 1,000 postings available to peruse or search.
1. I present material in original languages whenever possible (English, Portuguese, and Indonesian). Tetun materials are also available on the net, but I do need some assistance in selection since this (Tetun Dili) is a new language for me. If for some reason you don't read Portuguese or Indonesian, I issue periodic reminders of some fairly helpful quick and free automatic online translation available.
2. I use extensive links to photos, audio and video ('new media') about Timor-Leste. Enormous quantities have become available with the explosive growth of sites specializing in these media. They have not been seriously explored for scholarly or documentary purposes.
3. I cover blog and (other) list postings on Timor Leste fairly thoroughly. This includes Portuguese-language blogs and lists. I also cover Lusa, the main Portuguese source of Timor-Leste news for the Lusophone press worldwide.
4. I present links to much new full-text scholarly material, mostly from the 'invisible web,' especially public databases not easily tapped by major search engines. I also track citations and abstracts of new papers and books not on the public net, or just available in print.
5. Scarce news from Timor also appears regularly on the list. I take a fairly critical approach toward news stories, and you'll see this in my selections and in my occasional accompanying comments and subject headings.
6. I also maintain a multi-purpose research blog called Simplicity and have just begun posting some of my preliminary observations on contemporary Timor-Leste there. For example, see http://uttersimplicity.blogs.friendster.com/simplicity/2006/08/timorleste_no_n.html for a Timor-Leste posting, and see the crucial guide to the blog sidebars at http://uttersimplicity.blogs.friendster.com/simplicity/2006/03/simplifying_sim.html - jmacd."

[Prof John MacDougall is [see www.indopubs.com/biodata.html - ed.], inter alia, "Editor and Publisher, Indonesia Publications, 1984-2004 and still ongoing. Research focus: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Islamic countries, American ethnic minorities, foreign policy, terrorism. Main print periodicals: Indonesia Reports (current news, including translations into English), Indonesia News Service (same), Intel (analysis) [...]. - ed."
URL http://groups.yahoo.com/group/east-timor-studies/
Internet Archive (web.archive.org) [the site was not archived at the time of this abstract - ed.]
Link reported by: John MacDougall (john.a.macdougall--at--gmail.com)
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