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#TAM2012 Skeptic Crowdsourcing Workshop links
The Amazing Meeting 2012 is underway as I type this. Yesterday I led a workshop called The Future of Skepticism Online: Crowd-sourced Activism. I talked about many of the topics you’ve seen here on...
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#TAM2012 You Are The Future Speech – Links and Tips
Update: You can read the speech itself now here on the blog and the video of this talk is now available as well. The Amaz!ng Meeting in Las Vegas has just ended. In my talk on Sunday I exhorted the...
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#TAM2012 Plenary: You Are the Future of Skepticism on the Internet
Update (August 24): The video of this talk is now available. This is the script I used for my TAM2012 speech on Sunday, July 15, 2012. When I speak I do not read word-for-word, so I guarantee you this...
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New Projects Put Up Cash for Truth – Good Thinking Society and Truth Market
Despite repeated protestations of “Big Pharma shill!” from alternative medicine proponents, there never seems to be much money in skepticism. Most skeptic projects are done as hobbies by individuals....
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Finding the Paper Behind the News Story: Two New Tools
Skeptic bloggers have always had a a love-hate relationship with science journalism, as Steve Novella mentioned on his blog last week. On one hand, they keep us in business by making mistakes that we...
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Morning Toolbox – October 2, 2012 – Politics is Unavoidable
To force myself to write more, and because I much enjoy the daily posts at Research Buzz and CFI’s Morning Heresy, I thought I would start doing a daily post of news about tools and technologies of...
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Morning Toolbox – October 3, 2012 – Google, Pundits and More Politics
Morning Toolbox is a daily digest of interesting tools and techniques that skeptics can use online. Google has updated their Webmaster guidelines – very important to any webmaster or blogger. Are you...
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Morning Toolbox – October 4, 2012 – One Billion Facebookers
Morning Toolbox is a daily digest of interesting tools and techniques that skeptics can use online. Facebook said on the Today Show this morning that it now has 1 Billion users. That means negative Web...
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Morning Toolbox – October 10, 2012 – Privacy, TV News
Morning Toolbox is a daily digest of interesting tools and techniques that skeptics can use online. I forgot this from last month – the Internet Archive has created an ambitious new archive of ALL the...
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Morning Toolbox – October 17, 2012 – Meet, Develop, Disavow
Morning Toolbox is a daily digest of interesting tools and techniques that skeptics can use online. I’ve pointed out before that journalists seem to be building more tools than skeptics – there are...
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Lanyrd becomes even more valuable via a new speaker directory
I’ve written about Lanyrd here before, it’s an interesting take on organizing data for conferences that I recommend for skeptics. Perhaps I recommend it a bit too often, because at least one person...
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Please help update my skeptic podcast census
Back in May 2011 I attempted to measure the amount of skeptic podcasting being produced and generated some interesting statistics. In April 2012 I ran an update post attempting an overall census of...
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Metadata is vital for your videos to be discovered on YouTube
A video on my YouTube channel recently passed half a million views, in just over a year since I put it up. By viral video standards, that’s not going to make any top ten lists, but it is impressive...
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Why do people volunteer to edit Wikipedia?
Some economists have long been a bit puzzled at the astounding success of Wikipedia. Standard economic theory wouldn’t predict that such a project would thrive without some form of remuneration for the...
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RBUTR supports more browsers, adds a universal linking toolbar
Some exciting new additions to RBUTR have been announced in the last few weeks. The folks on the team behind this skeptic favorite have been busy! RBUTR is an excellent skeptic tool that I’ve written...
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Mixing curation and crowdsourcing in skeptic event planning
Neil deGrasse Tyson at TAM9 by Jamie Bernstein, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0 As the annual schedule of skeptic and freethought events continues to expand, there’s more variation and experimentation going on....
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Caption your videos for accessibility – and you may reap a viral reward
Skeptics should be doing our part to improve accessibility – for our events, our online content and in general. If the message of rationalism and science is truly of value, then it should be accessible...
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#TAM2013 Crowdsourcing Workshop & other videos posted
Additional videos from The Amaz!ng Meeting 2013 have been posted in recent weeks by the James Randi Educational Foundation. Just in the last few days the two workshops I was involved in at #TAM2013, on...
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Crowdsourced climate feedback via the newly launched Hypothes.is
Back in the fall of 2011 I wrote about a new web annotation tool called hypothes.is. At that time it was just a Kickstarter project that I recommended everyone support. But since then it was...
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Facebook adds feature to reduce spread of viral fake news
Like it or not, Facebook is now central to the propagation of news and other media online. Links to online articles from Facebook posts often constitute the lion’s share of traffic to that post. So...
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