New look

I've just changed the theme template of Multidisciplinary Perspectives to give it a different look. This is the first change of appearance since I started it just over 10 years ago. The three columns are retained, though in a different arrangement. The rest of the blog is basically the same, though some minor changes will …

Concluding 2017, looking forward to 2018

This year has been one of some personal transitions, hence less posting on this blog than originally planned. As 2017 comes to a close, I wanted to touch on a couple of topics among several related to the blog content. First, 2017 is the U.N. Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development. Usually I try to …

New categories

With the previous post I introduced two new categories to this blog, both of which represent interests, experience, and areas for exploration (although not necessarily formal expertise): habitat & community - brings the dimension of built environment and how we live in it more explicitly into the set of "multidisciplinary perspectives;" it facilitates discussing the …

Return of Multidisciplinary Perspectives

After a long hiatus, I am resuming this blog. The reasons for leaving off had to do with a combination of factors - other priorities and technical issues related to falling behind on updating the WordPress.org software. Updating a really out of date installation (2-point-something to 4.3.1) proved to be less daunting than some sites …

Reviving this blog

In 2008-2010 I maintained a WordPress blog entitled Multidisciplinary Perspectives on my personal website, donosborn.org. This is a renewal of that effort, which covered a range of topics of personal interest, and complemented my other blog, Beyond Niamey, which focuses on African languages in the "information age." The original purpose was as a place to …

New blog

This is my second blog. The first one - "Beyond Niamey" - began as an experiment. I was interested to see what I could do with the medium, and how I might show use of multiple languages (mainly French, Fulfulde/Pular and Bambara). Ultimately I have used and continue to use that one intermittently to (1) …