This may be redundant — you all cruise every blog on the site already, right? Ed is asking for donations, and exploring ideas to get an ad-free site. Give him your input! The Digital Cuttlefish thinks God is a misogynist. I think he’s right. Greta has a guest post — it seems that being a …
Category Archive: Bloggery
Mar 09 2013
Well crap, I missed out on the cake
This is what happens when you stay off the internet all day: you miss your co-blogger’s birthday celebration. I didn’t even get a card together or anything. Guess I’ll have to dust off this old thing again. Just add 7 to all the ages mentioned. Actually, from the looks of that cake plate, I think …
Mar 06 2013
Bora 1, Climate Denialist Kooks 0
This is really a thing of beauty: climate pseudoscientist Willis Eschenbach whines at the inadvertent comedy blog Watt’s Up With That that Bora Zivkovic has been moderating comments on his SciAm blog. Eschenbach, who’s also a Mass Extinction denialist, objects to Bora’s having instituted some basic anti-troll measures at A Blog Around The Clock that …
Mar 04 2013
A little blogging exercise for my students
In my development class, students have been blogging away for the last few weeks, and I asked them to send me links to ones they wouldn’t mind seeing advertised. I’ve told them that an important part of effectively blogging is to link and comment, so they’re supposed to write something this week that adds to …
Mar 04 2013
Around FtB
So today I thought I’d read FtB like our critics do — twisting everything to fit their preconceptions that we’re all evil people. I might be mildly misrepresenting the content of their posts, but you won’t know unless you actually read them. Stephen hates teachers so much, he wants to launch them all into space. …
Mar 03 2013
That had to hurt
Michael Nugent has compiled some examples of ‘nasty pushback’ against some atheist/skeptic feminists on the Internet. I found it painful to read, and could only wade in through the first half dozen — I think I was the target of some of them. I don’t envy Michael the effort of dredging them up.
Mar 01 2013
Berkeley meetup report
We didn’t think to take any photos that I know of, so I’ll have to make do with an image to capture the gist of the meetup at the Jupiter in Berkeley on Wednesday. Known hordelings in attendance were Ron Sullivan and her celebrated trophy husband Joe Eaton, robro, moarscienceplz and a lovely gentleman whose …
Feb 28 2013
I didn’t know I was signing up for a psychology experiment!
Jadehawk has an interesting post up on what psychology considers harassment — that is, when the pros assess effective harassment campaigns, what do they do? Conclusion: Even mild interruption, ridicule, and criticism elicits stress responses, and all these mild stress-response-elicitors count as harassment in psychology. That doesn’t mean we should stop criticizing people, and it …
Feb 24 2013
Oh, no, I’ve been doing it wrong!
Everyone is always complaining that the drama and controversy is ‘all about the traffic’ — that the only reason people take controversial stands on the internet is to stir up noise and get lots and lots of attention. I’ve been saying for years that it’s not true; you can get brief flurries of traffic by …
Feb 23 2013
People suck
I’ve been reading the story of Adalia Rose, a six year old girl with progeria. It makes me sick. Not Adalia, of course, but the fact that when she had fun posting videos on youtube and facebook, the trolls descended. Sometime in June, Carl Ludwig Sherburne noticed a new "bandwagon," his term for the Internet’s …
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