Monthly Archive for May, 2007Page 5 of 5

PA: Email subscription, and a small change

On Planet Atheism, near the top of the right sidebar, below the RSS feed link, there is now a new button: Email subscription. As the name implies, it allows you to receive Planet Atheism by email, as daily digests (that is, all the posts from a day are collected in one email message).

Personally, while I read a lot of blogs and sites through their RSS feeds, I prefer to visit PA directly, which I do several times a day (there's always something new and interesting there). But that's simply a matter of personal taste, and, much like atheists have only one thing in common (a lack of belief in gods) but can be (and are) different in every other way, so Planet Atheism readers can (and do) have their own preferred way of reading PA. :) Therefore, I wanted to give you as many choices as possible:
  1. visit the site;

  2. add the RSS feed to an aggregator such as Bloglines or Google Reader;

  3. receive digests by email.
Emails come from FeedBurner, not me, and include an "unsubscribe" link at the bottom.

As I said, this is not my preferred way of reading PA... but if you prefer it to the other two options, go ahead. :)

As for the small change: there were a couple of HUGE posts on PA during the past few days. By "huge", I mean many, many pages long, even with a full-screen browser window and a relatively small font. Therefore, there is now a limit, even for the full posts version of PA, which is 10000 characters. That's still a lot -- I believe that, in months of PA, and hundreds of posts, there were probably less than 5 posts that went above that limit. In those very rare cases, you will have to follow the link to the original blog.

20070504: two more…

62 now. :)

20070504: two more…

62 now. :)

Virginia and Censorship

It's official, we've signed on a house in Virginia, and will be moving around the 18th of this month -- very quickly! This is all taking place much faster than we had ever expected, but that's a good thing. I'm looking forward to the new house. Here is the view from the end of the driveway (which will be the view from the office as soon as we clear some trees from the end of the driveway).




I've recently speculated about the atheist population in that area, and by coincidence one of the stories I've read about recently is based at a high school around Roanoke, which is in the next county over from our new house.

Reed Braden innocently lends another atheist Dawkins' book The God Delusion. The friend's father, either not aware or not accepting of his son's atheism, finds the book and confiscates it. He calls Reed threateningly at 11PM, and later demanded from his principle that he be punished 'for "handing out literature" and attempting to convert his already-Atheist son to Atheism.'

Gideons were handing out bibles in the school parking lot a week earlier.

I contacted Reed directly about atheism in southwestern virginia. His report was about what I had expected. They're there, just not visible. Sounds like a good opportunity to start organizing!

20070503: 60 blogs and counting!

The 60th blog on Planet Atheism is Geoff Arnold, which looks quite interesting indeed. Incidentally, one post in it directed me to the WP-Footnotes WordPress plugin, which I've just added to my WordPress blogs, such as WotM. :)

In other news, I've just updated moonmoon (the aggregator software I use) to the latest trunk version, and Planet Atheism should now load faster.

20070503: 60 blogs and counting!

The 60th blog on Planet Atheism is Geoff Arnold, which looks quite interesting indeed. Incidentally, one post in it directed me to the WP-Footnotes WordPress plugin, which I've just added to my WordPress blogs, such as WotM. :)

In other news, I've just updated moonmoon (the aggregator software I use) to the latest trunk version, and Planet Atheism should now load faster.

20070501: 3 new blogs on PA


More miscellaneous stuff:

- last week, there were some technical problems with the Planet Atheism RSS feed. They should be solved now.

- PA isn't an "exclusive club". :) If you have a blog where at least 50% of the posts are about atheism, humanism, fighting theocracy, and so on, and you want to join, just ask.

- Similarly, if you know of an atheism-related blog which you just love to read, but which is not included in PA, why not suggest to the author that he/she joins? It's the best of two worlds: it brings that blog many new readers, and it makes PA even more interesting.

20070501: 3 new blogs on PA


More miscellaneous stuff:

- last week, there were some technical problems with the Planet Atheism RSS feed. They should be solved now.

- PA isn't an "exclusive club". :) If you have a blog where at least 50% of the posts are about atheism, humanism, fighting theocracy, and so on, and you want to join, just ask.

- Similarly, if you know of an atheism-related blog which you just love to read, but which is not included in PA, why not suggest to the author that he/she joins? It's the best of two worlds: it brings that blog many new readers, and it makes PA even more interesting.