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1. Recommendations for the Ethical Disguise of Online Sources

   Some researchers of user-generated content make an effort to disguise the public comments they quote so as to not bring additional scrutiny to the comments …

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2. Wikipedia's wiped edit

   Yesterday I was surprised to see widespread headlines that Wikipedia's "first edit" was being auctioned as a NFT. That wasn't right, and I wondered what …

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3. Locating research sources on Reddit

   This past year I’ve been working on how to treat online sources in research reports. When researchers disguise their sources, is it effective or …

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4. Disguising Reddit sources: The practices and efficacy of ethical research

   I had been vacillating on posting a draft because I wasn’t sure whether to call it: masking or disguising. Last week, while working on …

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5. Transcending academic book writing conventions and weaknesses

   I’ve published three books with an academic press, and with each I strove to be accessible to general readers. The last, Hacking Life, was …

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6. Pelican with pandoc and cache

   I use pandoc—and its flavor of markdown—to create my webpages, slides, PDFs, and Word files. Ironically, the only place I don’t use …

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7. “Which organized geeks should I talk to?”

   Though people have always hacked their lives (e.g., Ben Franklin is claimed as an early example), the birth of “life hacking” is dated as …

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8. Improving PDF Annotations from GoodReader

   For many years now, I’ve printed out PDFs and scribbled annotations on them. I then dictate my annotations (i.e., excerpts and comments) into …

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9. The officiousness of Wikipedia (my bio still sucks)

   [Update: on 2020-Aug-092 Wikipedian Biogeographist improved my biography.]

   My English Wikipedia bio has sucked for as long as it’s existed. (Sometimes it doesn’t …

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