Practical Wisdom for Everyday Life
Amanda Marcotte, a writer for Raw Story and quite a popular figure on Twitter, recently asked Storify — a public archiving service which archives public tweets — if there is a way to block a user from archiving her tweets. She further suggested that people “need to lose access” “for their own good.” I don’t believe […]
Listen to the discussion here. I recently participated in a recorded discussion with two fellow Skeptic Ink Writers — Notung and Damion — and Chas Stewart. The topic of discussion was the Slymepit – an infamous forum which is critical of various bloggers, particularly a handful from Freethought Blogs and Skepchick, and figures in the online […]
A response to Secular Woman’s article titled “Opportunity and Access in the Freethought Movement” and some assorted reflections on the current state of the online secular community Secular Woman is an organization, launched in June of 2012, which aims to “amplify the voice, presence, and influence of non-religious woman.” I was initially supportive of the organization and helped […]
Update – 1/30/12 – 6:02PM Lee Moore of the A-News Podcast has invited me to participate in a series of talks which aim to put a stop to the current in-fighting in the atheist/skeptic community. He writes, “…I am calling for representatives from both camps in these blog wars to sit down with me in what may […]
I have authored and sent a letter to the Center for Inquiry’s CEO Ronald Lindsay concerning my attendance at the upcoming Women in Secularism 2 conference which is being made possible by generous donors contributing to a fundraiser which was recently launched. Soon after the fundraiser was announced, various discussions painting me in a negative […]
