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talkpoliticsOK, so I promised not to link spam, but I really wanted to share this one with folks. So in the interests of this being more than just a link, I'm asking other people to share any nifty sites they might have come across.
Anyway, mine is The Conversation. This is a new news site out of Melbourne. The goal seems to be to be a blog for academics. It seems the majority of the content is provided by academics and people are encouraged to give their full name and qualifications when they register. It already has some high profile commenters, especially from the climate denial lobby in Australia (including the guy who has put up $100K of his own cash to bring Lord Monckton out to share his crazy) and some of the scientists producing the work that the same denial lobby uses as its science. It's only about a month old, so it may be unfair to judge this, but it is pretty clearly left wing. AFOF is doing the backend work on the site and apparently this is not supposed to be the case. I guess going left is just what happens when you study reality for a living :P
I was originally going to post this to TP Nonsense, but I've decided that paragraph up there looks big enough to qualify as opinion and analysis :P
Anyway, mine is The Conversation. This is a new news site out of Melbourne. The goal seems to be to be a blog for academics. It seems the majority of the content is provided by academics and people are encouraged to give their full name and qualifications when they register. It already has some high profile commenters, especially from the climate denial lobby in Australia (including the guy who has put up $100K of his own cash to bring Lord Monckton out to share his crazy) and some of the scientists producing the work that the same denial lobby uses as its science. It's only about a month old, so it may be unfair to judge this, but it is pretty clearly left wing. AFOF is doing the backend work on the site and apparently this is not supposed to be the case. I guess going left is just what happens when you study reality for a living :P
I was originally going to post this to TP Nonsense, but I've decided that paragraph up there looks big enough to qualify as opinion and analysis :P
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Date: 21/7/11 06:55 (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 21/7/11 08:22 (UTC)In fact, I think I'd prefer if it said that!
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Date: 21/7/11 13:47 (UTC)I assume that's the same thing, roughly.
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Date: 21/7/11 18:51 (UTC)and a few other things.
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Date: 21/7/11 15:10 (UTC)What I do is have a development account with the same journal style as this one and develop my posts in there. This way, I can see my post as I'm developing it and can just cut and paste it to this community.
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Date: 21/7/11 15:16 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 21/7/11 15:42 (UTC)Which is great unless you are imbedding pictures, links, videos or text format enhancements like colors, bold, italics, underlining or (your personal favorite) strikethroughs.
If you develop in another account, you can cut and past all that from the html tab and you can preview what it will actually look like.
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Date: 21/7/11 15:56 (UTC)Strikedthroughs are easy. The html code involves adding < s t r i k e > and that's all. :-)
I also keep the 3 most frequently used html codes here handy on a .txt file:
- embedding a Youtube video
- including an image
- linking text to another website
I can't remember the exact codes so I got them saved.
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Date: 21/7/11 16:09 (UTC)When this happens I usually regard it as a message from the gods of/in the internets, and either reformulate it, or leave it on the sacrificial altar of the noosphere. Oops. Did I say that aloud?
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Date: 21/7/11 09:20 (UTC)For the non-Aussies, the reason why CC is a big deal here this week is we just introduced our carbon tax. The Murdoch press have been keeping up their high standards of journalism whilst covering the event and our opposition leader hasn't been acting like a crazy person at all.
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