Category Archives: Site News
A self-serving idea
I have an idea for a new way to blog. I can’t be the first to think this idea up, but I’m too lazy to figure out the keywords to begin searching the Web to find other people who’ve had this idea. Here goes:
This would be a single blog post, the text of which is updated [...]
Blogging less, working more
This is a site update. I just took a new job and it’s eating up most of my computer time every day, so very little time is left for reading or blogging. I’ll get back to the site periodically, so don’t give up on me.
(Every time I make a post like this to say that [...]
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Look and feel
A quick note: The look and the feel of the site are once again changing. I love the Manifest theme that I have been using for quite a few months, but I’ve come to the conclusion lately that it’s time to put a sidebar back into play. Hence I’ve switched to the barebones WP Framework [...]
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Tracer by Tynt
After reading Zachary Seward’s article at the Nieman Journalism Lab about the new service Tracer, I decided to give it a try. Tracer is a javascript that tracks when people select or copy text from your site. When they copy the text, the script inserts a little “read more” link at the end of what [...]
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Michael Becker has been blogging about academia, digital culture and journalism since 2005. He is the Web editor of the
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