Category Archives: Blog Administration

I’m traveling, with only sporadic Internet access. Apologies that comments are slow to post and e-mails don’t get answered promptly. –Ann Bartow

This time it’s threats, including death threats, against a female blogger, as reported by the BBC News: Prominent blogger Kathy Sierra has called on the blogosphere to combat the culture of abuse online. It follows a series of death threats … Continue reading →

If you are here at the AALS and want details, leave me a note! –Ann Bartow

I’ve been in Hyderabad this past week, and will return to the U.S. in a few days. Thanks for all the kind e-mails! Hope final exams and the end of the semester are going well for everyone. –Ann Bartow

Here is an example of blog-based “opinion shaping” that was fairly easily detected. Via Making Light. See also this and this.

Some shady splog outfit is shadowing this blog. Hopefully “Quick Informative on Law Related!” will be dissuaded soon…   Apologies for the trackbacks that shadow the links here.

Is that clear enough? For context see this post and associated comments. For background on astroturf and anonymity issues see this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this, this and this. –Ann Bartow NB: Sorry for the hostile … Continue reading →

The day before yesterday a close family member died after a very short and completely unexpected health downturn. I wrote a long post about him, but I contemporaneously received a painful reminder about the perils of making personal revelations in … Continue reading →

The R.O.T.C. is much in evidence on campus today, involved in numerous 9/11 remembrance activities. I grew up in New York, and most of my family and a number of close friends live there still. In the WTC attacks a … Continue reading →

Interesting article at Editor & Publisher with the doofy title: “Who Let the Blogs Out? Legal Experts Offer Tips on Avoiding Trouble.” Via the Law Librarian Blog.

There are plenty of people who substantively engage with issues, but prefer to do so anonymously, and few people object to that, even if discussions get heated. Trolls, however, are folks who derive some sort of power and pleasure from … Continue reading →

Thanks to everyone who commented, e-mailed, or phoned about the recent unpleasantness. I posted a whopping 4 comments at Sadly No, detailed below, three of which were a single sentence in length. But in daring to have an opinion, dumb … Continue reading →

While I appreciate all the helpful advice I’ve received about how to increase blog traffic and visibility, I’m probably not going to take much of it. To paraphrase Twisty of I Blame the Patriarchy (commenting here), if this site was … Continue reading →

This morning someone arrived at this blog via a Google search for “college girls fucking professors.” It was the post about “Google Searches and Germain Greer Porn” (in conjuction with Google’s somewhat-imperfect-shall-we-say algorithms) that apparently caused this. “I Blame the … Continue reading →

This blog has generated a fair amount of e-mail, but not too many on-site comments. Yesterday a Feminist Law Prof explained that this might be due to technical difficulties, hence this post. Commenting at this blog requires that you do … Continue reading →