Now you can submit to Sympoze directly from Google Reader!. It’s simple. First you need to create your custom button in Google Reader. (p.s. if you don’t have a Sympoze account…sign-up here.) Step One: Create a Custom “Send To” Link 1. From Google Reader go to Settings 2. Click the “Send To” tab 3. Click… Continue Reading
I’ve been a little silent for awhile, but that’s because I’ve been working on something that I’m pretty excited about. I started Sympoze, two years ago, as a social bookmarking site for philosophers. I’m now expanding it to all areas of academia. Social bookmarking for philosophy won’t be lost here. We are eventually going to… Continue Reading
Sympoze turned one year this month. It is a little over a year old, and I think it’s been a good year. How Far Sympoze Has Come Just to give you an idea of how far it’s come. In the last week, I’ve added 4 new requests for accounts. We now have 115 philosophers signed… Continue Reading
It’s June. Time to see what the top Sympoze submissions were for May. Here they are. A Life in Philosophy: Peter Singer Can an Intuition that P, be Evidence that P? McMahan on the “Healthy” State of “Analytic” Philosophy Publishing Advice for Graduate Students John Perry on YouTube Distributing/Disturbing the Chinese Room Anarchism is to… Continue Reading
I thought it would be fun (and useful) post the top links on Sympoze for the month. These are the top 14 from April. Basically anything that received 4 or more up votes is on this list. Enjoy. Richard Chappell’s post “Misleading Philosophical Jargon” led the pack with 6 votes. Misleading Philosophical Jargon X-Phi on… Continue Reading
I opened a spreadsheet in google docs today and discovered that I can now edit my google doc spreadsheets from the google phone! Google was heavily criticized for not hitting the ground with this kind of functionality. I’m glad to see they’re so quick to work on this. This really opens up the phone for… Continue Reading
Happy New Year! It’s been slow here, but philosophy resume in the very near future. Until then, I thought it would be nice to post the top stories from 2008 over at Sympoze. Top 9 Sympoze Posts in 2008 Tips for Publishing as a Graduate Student Excursus: Philosophy Feeds Fetishes and Russell’s Paradox Philosophers on… Continue Reading
I just installed a simple Instant Messenger feature in Sympoze. You can IM your contacts and start chat rooms. It seems to work well, but I think you might need to allow pop-ups from Sympoze. It seems like it could be a useful feature.… Continue Reading
The Social Bookmarklet code I found works perfectly! There are two great ways to use it. Here’s what it looks like. Sympoze Users: Drag the above link to your bookmark toolbar. Whenever you’re on a site you want to submit to Sympoze simply click on the bookmark. You’ll be taken to the Sympoze submit page.… Continue Reading
I just set up Sympoze to automatically import each article published in Analysis as it’s own separate scoop. As with the blogroll posts, you must look under the Upcoming Tab. The articles don’t make the front page until users vote them up. I’m going to do this for all of the major journals. It will… Continue Reading