Paper.li is a cool way of disseminating information, blogs, articles and what have you. I have signed the Skeptic Ink…
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The Skeptic Ink Network is maturing. We have changed a little over the time we have started, and it has…
What do you say to someone who tried to stab you to death?
The unlikely opportunity to find out presented itself to Asif Mohiuddin not long ago in a jail in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Taken into custody for a second time for allegedly posting “offensive comments about Islam and Mohammed” on his blog, the outspoken atheist blogger and anti-Islamist political activist found himself in a cell next to one of the three assailants who had been waiting outside his office building when he arrived for the night shift on the 14th of January 2013.
To those of you who use Reddit and who run blogs, you know people don;t like other posting their own…
I am off on hols for a week, so will not be posting too frequently (if at all) bar some…
It comes with some great surprise and sadness that John Loftus has decided to leave the Skeptic Ink Network, a platform which he co-founded with Ed Clint for which we are all exceptionally grateful. As you surely know, John is the author of some superb books, one of which I am due to soon review (The Outsider Test For Faith, which is excellent).
As you may have noticed, access to SIN has been sketchy at best over the weekend. This was due to…
Don’t forget the awesome resource that is SINergy – the home of all the media associated with the various members…
You might well have heard about the plight of atheist bloggers in Bangladesh. I have signed a petition, and urge you to do so if it is still valid. Being persecuted (and yes, I mean this overused term) for nonbelief is simply outrageous in this day and age.
In the interests of getting a variety of voices and interests here, I would like to offer a Sunday(ish) guest…
We are trying to stay ahead of the game, as a network. Thinking about how we could provide our readers with as much content and resources, we have developed a channel here at our SIN headquarters.
Recently, I posted about a certain gentleman, no person, who had taken to negatively attacking my books without having read them, and certainly without understanding their content. This man has wound many up. He has posted literally hundreds of times on my books, and has written financially damaging reviews.
Podcasts are a really useful medium for learning about or engaging with topics because you can listen to them on the fly. In the last week, I have mowed the lawn, sharpened garden tools, walked to the shops, driven in my car, washed carpets and so on, all the while listening to counter-apologetics and biblical exegesis. My exciting life! Life, with only 24 hours in a day, has been, for many years, a series of opportunities to multi-task, to kill two birds with one stone.
I will soon be compiling a webpage here for the menu above linking to a superb list of podcasts and what have you.
It’s finally happened. I have extolled the virtue of giving people ample chance and opportunity to be well-behaved. In this case, the chances and opportunities were not taken up. But this story goes much further back, to about a year ago, and to what I declare as a form of libel.
People seem to be talking about internet civility an awful lot at the moment. For example, Dan Fincke at Camels with Hammers has been asking people to sign up to a civility pledge. I have been involved in my own debate with a rather infamous apologist, JP Holding. For those who do not know JP Holding, he is an ex-prison librarian cum self-styled apologist who runs Tektonics.org (Tekton Apologetics Ministries) and Theology Web. He has a Masters Degree in Library Science, which will be important for a later point.
So I have joined twitter, for good or for bad. Here is my handle (and here’s my spout):
https://twitter.com/ATipplingPhilo
@ATipplingPhilo
This is what my great co-blogger at Incongruent Elements. Beth Erickson, has reported. Great news for SIN: The Skeptic Ink…
Philosopher Russell Blackford, author (editor) of the awesome book 50 Voices of Disbelief, has joined the writing team here at…
I am writing this piece in response to a recent exchange that has come to involve a growing number of people in some particular corners of the blogosphere. Most of you who will be reading this will not need me to go into great detail as you will probably have already read the exchanges. This is how, effectively, the process took place.
In the same way that evolution improves organisms’ fitness for survival in their environment through performance, feedback and revision, at ATP we would like some feedback to make any necessary revisions. So far our performance here seems to have done just fine with a growing readership and some lively commenting. However, it is hard to know from the inside, sometimes, whether one is hitting the mark or not.