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frankbi has the latest on the Listener against free speech. Pamela Stirling, after using dubious legal threats to shut up a critic says: So that, we're not into censorship of any kind. As we discussed with Brian Leyland, the Voltaire...
Posted on April 28, 2008 3:10 PM • 1 Comments
Lawyer Steven Price, who specialises in media law, comments on the Listener's use of legal threats to silence a blogger: In the comments section of the correction and apology, someone has helpfully posted a link to a copy of HotTopic's...
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Posted on April 20, 2008 11:35 AM • 8 Comments
I don't like banning people from commenting here. To make sure this is transparent I keep a list here of everyone who is banned. Inspired by the example of John Quiggin, I've added a third name to the list, the...
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Posted on April 15, 2008 1:18 PM • 19 Comments
The two millionth visitor here came from California State University, Sacramento. My thanks to everyone who has dropped by....
Posted on February 18, 2008 8:56 PM • 7 Comments
Tanta writes: I cannot make anyone stop responding to pointless or nuisance comments. You have to want to restrain yourself, because you understand that the only way to get rid of them is to fail to give them the attention...
Posted on January 30, 2008 11:23 AM • 48 Comments
I don't know whether it's that the Australian just hires journalists with really thin skins or that the water there contains some skin thinning chemical, but they always seem to overreact to criticism. The latest is from Caroline please preference...
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Posted on November 23, 2007 8:52 AM • 6 Comments
Steve Milloy's Junk Science has now endorsed Climate Audit in the Weblog Awards, telling readers to vote for Climate Audit instead of JunkScience. I know that the we shouldn't take the awards seriously, but other people will. Phil Plait's Bad...
Posted on November 8, 2007 11:52 AM • 44 Comments
I don't like the way the Weblog awards are decided. Because you can vote once per day per computer you have access to, to win bloggers need to post every day and shamelessly exhort their readers to vote. This felt...
Posted on November 5, 2007 12:46 PM • 24 Comments
This is an open thread (and your last chance to get into the 500,000th comment contest)....
Posted on October 1, 2007 2:45 PM • 27 Comments
Say hello to two new to ScienceBlogs bloggers, Coby Beck, of How to Talk to a Climate Skeptic fame, and Science Woman who writes about balancing family and an academic career....
Posted on September 24, 2007 1:24 PM • 3 Comments
Scienceblogs is running a contest where you can win a five-day trip for two to one of the world's greatest science cities. All you have to do to enter is post a comment one of the blogs here. So if...
Posted on August 29, 2007 12:47 PM • 39 Comments
Here are the top 5 lists of the top Australian blogs: Rank From Method 1 Janette Toral Blog Juice 2 Ratified.org Technorati + Feedburner + Google Rank 3 Craig Harper Technorati 4 Meg Tsiamis Technorati + Alexa 5 Australianblogs.com.au links...
Posted on August 22, 2007 11:47 AM • 0 Comments
I must follow the fashion here at Scienceblogs, so there is now a group for Deltoid readers on Facebook....
Posted on August 2, 2007 10:21 AM • 4 Comments
Chris and Mark Hoofnagle's denialism blog has joined ScienceBlogs. Check out Mark's post on the Unified theory of the crank. Sound like anyone we know?...
Posted on May 1, 2007 4:06 AM • 3 Comments
A kill file is a feature of most Usenet news readers that allowed to permanently discard all posts from a particular user without even having to look at them. A couple of my readers have asked about a kill file...
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Posted on April 29, 2007 4:27 AM • 4 Comments
Mrs Deltoid wrote the following and told me that I had to post it on my blog. I'm not sure who it is directed at....
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Posted on April 22, 2007 3:21 AM • 2 Comments
Tim Lambert (deltoidblog AT gmail.com) is a computer scientist at the University of New South Wales.
