Verwirrung Blog roundtable discussion

[Iason Ouabache]

If nothing else, I'll spend this weekend drawing up links for everyone to put in their RSS feeds, which should be full of information on the subject of your interest.  I'm pretty good at finding information, after all.

Cain = Tenzing Norgay of the internets!  As for the column name, I'm fine with ChaoSkeptic.  I'm trying to make that a brand name.

Each of us should probaby write an introductory post which introduces you and your topic matter, to kick off your column.

I like this idea.  It would be a good reset for the blog.  Introduce all of the new regular bloggers. WordPress has a way to do blogger biography profiles too but I have no idea how it works.

[Cain]

I can put all bios on the "About" page, including any contact details or other information you want to share.

Cram, I think that topic could easily fall under yours or Payne's section.  However, if you wanted, you could just create another forum topic category for it and do it as something additional.

I'll add Chaoskeptic as a category as well.

[LMNO]

Do you think the name "Starbuck's Gravel" has a nice ring to it?

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

Kind of a gravelly sound to it I think...

[Cain]

"ChaoSkeptic" and "Starbuck's Gravel" (provisional, in case someone comes up with something LMNO likes better) have both been added.  No additions for the blogroll?

If Trip is reading this, would there be any way to remove the categorly cloud?  I mean, its only going to becom longer and more annoying as time goes by, and the categories are visible on each individual entry anyway.  Also, would you or Faust be able to update the Wordpress software?

[Triple Zero]

the categories are gone.

shouldn't the blogroll require some cleaning up as well?

and how about restricting the total number of posts on the front index a bit?

(it's just, i have a dislike for really long pages)

[Cain]

Limiting it to ten should probably do the trick.  If people use the "see more" button while writing longer pieces, that should keep it tidy.

I think the blogroll is alright, personally.  I've seen a lot worse, shall we say.  And thanks for killing the categories.

[Iason Ouabache]

I think Overcoming Bias would be a good addition to the blogroll:  http://www.overcomingbias.com/

[Triple Zero]

i've been checking that blog every now and then and it's got a LOT of really interesting things on it. it's got a lot of things on it, and a lot of them are interesting, but not all

still havent had time to properly dive into the archives yet though

[Kai]

i've been checking that blog every now and then and it's got a LOT of really interesting things on it. it's got a lot of things on it, and a lot of them are interesting, but not all

still havent had time to properly dive into the archives yet though

Some of it is total wtf, like the people  that just go on and on and on about cryogenics and sentient AI. Then there is other stuff which is really intriguing.

[Triple Zero]

yeah but then the cryogenics and sentient AI ramblings are pretty amusing in their own "spirited" transhumanist way, and then once they get past that, cryogenics and certain kinds of AI give rise to some interesting ethical problems (that are still far removed from actual reality), and some logical puzzles or ideas that are cool to tell at parties where there's a lot of exact minds (did you get the one about the two-box problem with the Omega AI?)

[Cain]

And added.

[Cain]

I haven't got person specific feeds, due to putting finishing touches on my research proposal and complete and utter lack of sleep (one complements the other, especially since not sleeping is making working harder).

But here are general feeds which might be of use to everyone:

http://grinding.be/feed/
http://feeds.boingboing.net/boingboing/iBag
http://blog.3bulls.net/?feed=comments-rss2
http://www.technoccult.com/feed
http://twitter.com/technoccult
http://feeds.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/commentisfree/rss
http://feeds.wired.com/wired/index
http://feedproxy.google.com/NakedCapitalism
http://crookedtimber.org/feed/
http://exiledonline.com/feed/

Also, anything on the blogroll is probably a good bet.

[AFK]

So, as to previous discussions, I would like to continue to contribute but cannot promise a timetable or schedule due to the nature of my IRL work.  So, I figure I can be like the Andy Rooney of the blog.  I'll try to come up with a title for that if it helps. 

[Bebek Sincap Ratatosk]

I also would like to contribute... I was thinking about focusing on news and concepts surrounding the confusion of the map and territory... a sort of Semantic Cartography maybe

I'm thinking about entries that explore the semantic gymnastics that people go through when they confuse words and things.

EX 1 - A few years ago a state government decided that the IT dept. could no longer reference "master" and "slave" drives inside a system. Apparently they found it offensive... but it did explain why I found the bondage gear in the bottom of my tower the last time I cleaned it out. No confusion of the Map and Territory there

EX 2 - Prisoners of War have rights... Illegal Combatants do not.

EX 3- Sea Kittens may not be nearly as tasty as fish....

Etc.

Thoughts?

I dunno if there would be two current events each month, but maybe one and another entry on older examples or general semantics

Thoughts? Opinions?