Monthly Archives: January 2005

Why I’m not blogging

I’m not blogging, primarily, because I haven’t had two minutes free in the last week. I owe about 20,000 words to various editors, I have two papers that need refereed, I have a dissertation proposal and two dissertation chapters that need read, I have to help assemble a small grant proposal, I am trying to [...]
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NoNoFollow FUD

Nofollow is an interesting case of elitism and monoculture actually helping the system at large. Adoption of the nofollow link attribute (introduced by Google and a host of others in order to combat link spam) only makes sense if the benefit to spammers is reduced nearly to nil. That requires all or most blogs to [...]
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NoFollow for Word Press

So you’ve read all about the proposed solution for keeping spam comments un-indexed by Google et al, and being a Boy Scout, you want to prepare your WordPress blog now. To that end, I am happy to provide to you my first WordPress plugin. It is kinda dumb, but I think it works. Download the [...]
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Do I. Talk. Like that?

Thanks to the Baltimore Sun, I have effectively demonstrated the best way to become a target of those who claim that the professoriate is left-leaning. “This is do-it-yourself media,” says Alex Halavais, an assistant professor of communications at the University at Buffalo in New York. “People are doing this for fun. They’re not looking for [...]
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Cassini-Huygens: Titan

There is something plain thrilling about seeing a photograph of another planet. It makes imagining stepping onto that surface all the easier. There are so many important things we could be spending this money on instead of space exploration, but it is really hard to remember that when you see pictures like this one recently [...]
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Cyberporn Courseblog

Sorry the postings have flagged a bit recently. Been desperately trying to get my stuff done before the semester came barreling in like an overloaded semi. Too late. Anyway, the blog for the cyberporn course is up, with little more than a syllabus thus far. I’ll probably crosspost here as well. Unlike last semester, the [...]
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Fafnir sold out!

In the continuing watch of who has sold out their blogs, I am saddened to note that Fafnir and Giblets have been on the take for some time.
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