Here’s a question for WordPress users. Because the amount of spam in the comments is increasing by the week, I activated the Akismet plugin this morning. It required an API-key, which required registration at Wordpress.com. I registered, have the API-key, Akismet is working fine, but — I now apparently also have a blog at Wordpress.com: [...]

So I finally did the LibraryThing! For those of you who are not familiar with this marvellous phenomenon: at the LibraryThing, you can catalogue your books online, see which other users you share similar books with, write reviews, tag your books, and much more. I entered part of my library this morning, and will be [...]

I was having coffee at my parents last week. With the coffee came a cookie, and a paperback. “Have you heard of this?” asked my mother, and put the book on the coffee table. I hadn’t. I examined the blurb, which informed me that the term meme has been around as long as I myself. [...]

BBC’s wonderful In Our Time this week discusses my favourite knight. Another case of early modern interactive reading, although in a quite different sense from Sir William Drake’s…
The programme can be downloaded as mp3 or as a podcast at the BBC site until next Thursday.

History Carnival number 27 is up at History:Other, and as you can see in my comment/trackback plugin — I’m in it! It’s an overwhelming collection of historical writings in the blogosphere, so make sure to keep this evening free and go take a look!

A lavishly designed Carnivalesque can now be enjoyed at Alun’s!

To all those out there marking student essays at the moment: are you aware that the typographical fonts of the essays might be influencing your grading?
Student Phil Renaud has a hunch that this might be the case, and supports his hunch with empirical research — he has examined his own essay archive.
Do you make [...]