…for the month of May. Don’t worry- it’s for good myrmecological cause. I may stop in to give a brief dispatch now and again, but I can’t guarantee it. In the meantime, behave yourselves.
Posts under ‘Navel-Gazing’
Multiple Choice
Blogging has been slow this week as, among other things, I’m readying the final exam for Insects & People. Here is an excerpt from a practice exam administered earlier this evening: In the absence of posting, I figured I’d at least offer some multiple-choice questions.
Meanwhile, over at Compound Eye…
A few recent posts on my SciAm blog: When an artist copies a photograph, who gets the credit? 6 sources of free images for science blogging Experimenting with off-camera light
The infringement backstory
The last post was rather blunt. This was intentional. I wrote it as a statement to link from my sidebar and my “Image Use” guidelines, rather than as a stand-alone post. Clarifying my infringement enforcement policies is overdue. I’ve been dealing in recent years with a great many commercial entities using my photos, without my [...]
Is blogging dead?
A handy chart of search activity on “blogs” and “social media”: At first glance, Google Trends appear to indicate blogging is on the way out. Ye olde webbe logge is so 2004, after all. But I don’t think a wholesale abandonment of blogging is underway. Instead, prior to 2008 people used blogging software as a [...]
If you don’t have a Bug Geek mug, how can you possibly hang out with the cool kids?
Where can you purchase such a hip, fashion-forward caffeine delivery vessel? Over at The Bug Geek, of course. The Geek is raising funds to travel to the BugShot 2012 insect photography workshop, and to that end she’s selling these and other fine insect-related items.
More teaching means less blogging
I do apologize for the lack of posts. I’m finding that extra time spent preparing lectures and exams is incompatible with bloviating on the blog at my usual rate. Things should pick up eventually. I promise. In the meantime, I’ve been slowly adding Australian insect photos to my galleries: check it out.
Strumigenys, oh Strumigenys, I give in.
Remember the myrmecological disagreement over maintaining Pyramica as a separate genus from the similar Strumigenys? After fulminating on the issue for some months, I’ve decided to throw my lot in with the synonomy. I give up. They’re all just Strumigenys. I have updated my galleries accordingly. There has not been any new research to shed light [...]
Etch-a-blog!
Look what arrived in my inbox this morning: Thanks, Kim! I’m tempted to make this a blog banner.
Lee Ann Torrans sends me an email
An actual email exchange, just now. The first bit is a standard DMCA form notice I send non-commercial copyright infringers: This letter is a Notice of Infringement as authorized in § 512(c) of the U.S. Copyright Law under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). The infringing material appears on the Service for which you are the [...]
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