For years—like ever since I started blogging in 2003 or so—I've wanted to include a link blog on this site. You know, one of those side bars that just has cool links. Back in the day, Andy Baio's link blog was my jam, something I often paid more attention to than his main blog. It looks… Continue reading A Link Blog, Finally
Category: On Blogging
What about Blogging Keeps Me from Blogging
Yesterday in Facebook Killed the Feed I highlighted the way Facebook and Twitter have contributed to the decline of scholarly blogging. In truth though, those specific platforms can't take all the blame. There are other reasons why academic bloggers have stopped blogging. There are systemic problems, like lack of time in our ever more harried… Continue reading What about Blogging Keeps Me from Blogging
Facebook Killed the Feed
There's a movement to reclaim blogging as a vibrant, vital space in academia. Dan Cohen, Kathleen Fitzpatrick, and Alan Jacobs have written about their renewed efforts to have smart exchanges of ideas take place on blogs of their own. Rather than taking place on, say Twitter, where well-intentioned discussions are easily derailed by trolls, bots,… Continue reading Facebook Killed the Feed
Password Protecting PDFs on Course Blogs
This is a quick note to myself, so I remember the best way to protect PDFs behind a password on a course blog. Joe Ugoretz highlights the problems with most methods, and then proposes the solution I'm using here: Ben Balter's WP Document Revisions plugin. There are a few tricks involved to get WP Document… Continue reading Password Protecting PDFs on Course Blogs
RSS is Forever
One of the interesting features of Twitter is that you can delete a "tweet" you've written and it will retroactively disappear from any of your followers' lists of tweets. This is different from RSS, where, once an RSS reader has collected the post data from a feed, the excerpt (or entire post) in the RSS… Continue reading RSS is Forever
Dust? What dust?
Ignore the different looks this blog will be assuming these next couple days. I'm updating my templates and it's going to take a while to get it all done. Damn Movable Type for totally changing the standards of their templates from version 2.6 to 3.x. It's been such a hassle that I'm toying with the… Continue reading Dust? What dust?
Where has Sample Reality gone?