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How to blog: Text Workflow on an iMac
Posted by Greg Laden on November 29, 2012 If you are thinking about starting a blog, you should first watch this episode of the PBS TV Kids Show, “Arthur” in which Muffy decides to start a blog, and all hell breaks loose. If you spend any time at all on the blogsophere, you will find this episode both familiar and frightening. The point…
How to manage and maintain your electronic identity
Posted by Greg Laden on November 26, 2011 This is not a manual or even a how-to blog post, but rather, what I hope to be a few helpful suggestions that may or may not have already occurred to you. I was motivated to write this because of a series of recent events in which it became obvious that a lot of people,…
This blog is not moving anywhere. But …
Posted by Greg Laden on August 31, 2011 When we read about human evolution, we eventually get to the part about humans becoming “modern” (i.e., reaching the Platonic ideal, the End of the Linean Line, The upper middle part Catechism’s Great Chain of Being, the Archetype of the Repressed Middle Class, and all that other good stuff). That is the moment when we…
Why Google Has Broken Its Promise To Never Be Evil
Posted by Greg Laden on August 1, 2011 This is about Google’s policy of only allowing “real” names for participants on Google+. Before I go into why this is evil, I want to point out without providing any details that I’ve already spotted dozens of pseudonymous people on Google+ that Google+ authorities have missed. So, their policy, as implemented, is absurd to a…
A challenge to my readers and fellow science bloggers!
Posted by Greg Laden on December 3, 2010 Many months ago, the fossil primate “Ida” was reported to the world with much fanfare, including an entire mass market book and a huge press conference, and everything else one can possibly do to announce a new fossil find. Science bloggers and others got rather upset at the Ida team’s over the top fanfare, though…
If I say something bad about Pepsico, will I get in trouble?
Posted by Greg Laden on July 6, 2010 I once did a contract job for Pepsico. It went fine, but during the fieldwork, we noticed that every overhead utility wire and several prominent tree branches in the undeveloped forest we were surveying for archaeological sites had soda bottles strung over them, like those fetishes hanging around in the forest in the Blaire Witch…
You’re not helping has melted down. And has got it wrong. And isn’t helping.
Posted by Greg Laden on June 22, 2010 You’re not helping has proven its analytical illiteracy and disregard for reason and truth in a rather ironic way: By demonstrating biased ‘reasoning’ and ad hominem argument in a blog post about how another blog is not really a science blog. Some time ago they selected Why Evolution is True as a blog they hate,…
It’s bad enough that all men are rapists. Please don’t be stupid about it as well.
Posted by Greg Laden on June 8, 2009 Last week, a very bad thing happened to me, a life changing experience, the kind of thing many people with blogs would tell everyone about, trolling for sympathy and making everyone feel bad. Well, I am certainly not above doing that, but strategically I’ve decided to tell only a few people what is going on,…
Pseudoanonymoussockpuppetry on the intertubes
Posted by Greg Laden on March 6, 2009 It is well known among my loyal readers that I am an ardent supporter of pseudonymous and/or anonymous blogging and posting, and indeed, I’ve got two or three pseudonyms of my own. But, just because I follow this practice now and then, I do not simply give the pseodoanonymous a pass to do whatever they…
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A Comment On Bora’s Comment On Commenting Threads
I was recently engaged in a blog battle with Anthony Watts over his insufficiently skeptical (in my opinion) treatment of a discredited report of a meteorite of Martian origin bearing the remains of microscopic organisms. As this argument progressed, some dude on Twitter noted that the credibility of a blog post was determined by the…