Philosophy, et cetera

My old email subscriptions provider (Feedburner) is apparently shutting down next month, so I've set up a new service with MailChimp -- ...

The good folks at Blogger have released a new commenting platform that's integrated with Google+ , which I'm curious to try out. T...

After eight years  (!), I'm stepping down from running the Philosophers' Carnival .  Fortunately, Tristan Haze of Sprachlogik  has ...

Since the BlogCarnival submission form no longer works, the Philosophers' Carnival is upgrading to an all new, more reliable system: E...

Google Reader has annoyingly removed their "shared items" functionality, which I'd used to generate the "Elsewhere" ...

According to SiteMeter, this blog just received its millionth visit this morning! And I'm sure at least half of those must have been fr...

The good folks at Blogger have added a new 'dynamic' display format for viewing Blogger-based blogs. It offers a much faster way t...

The editors at PEA Soup kindly invited me to join their blog. I'll continue my usual half-baked blogging here, but look forward to occ...

Alex notes: perhaps this is just me - though I doubt it - but this comment box is weird. I can't move the text cursor around except by m...

Amanda at Blogger Buster has a useful guide on ' How to Create a Sitemap with Google Feed Control '. This lets you create a page tha...

I'm sure I'm not the only person who has lamented the lack of any rss /atom feeds for keeping up with the wonderful Notre Dame Philo...

In case anyone was doubting whether bloggers are megalomaniacs at heart, the folks at Blogger.com are now encouraging us to prominently dis...

[My old ' introduction ' was getting a bit outdated; here's a replacement.] Welcome to Philosophy, et cetera . My name is Rich...

Blogger has officially released the 'embedded comment form' I'm using below, so it should now be working (one would hope). But ...

Philosophy etc. just received its 500,000th visit a few minutes ago -- not bad for a philosophy blog! Thanks for dropping by. (And if you ...

Huh, Blogger was disappearing my comments rather than posting them (has anyone else had this problem?), so I've temporarily reverted to ...

At long last, the folks at Blogger have created an inline comment form , which I'm now testing out.  Email me if you have any problems u...

Crooked Timber has a post on ' The importance of Web sites for academics '. It seems like good advice, so I've composed this pag...

You may have noticed I'm still playing around with the blog template a bit. [ Update: I've added a new sidebar list of 'recomme...

I've just added this cool widget to my blog and RSS feed, which lets you rate each post (out of 5 stars). It looks like a fun and conve...