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 the “Create Custom Link” Link (at the bottom).
4. Name it “Sympoze”
5. Paste the following code in the URL field http://sympoze.com/node/add/drigg/?url=${url}&title=${title}
6. Paste the following code in the Icon URL field http://sympoze.com/themes/drigg_theme/favicon.ico
Step Two: Submit Stories from Google Reader
1. Every story in Google Reader has a “Send To” link at the bottom. Your Sympoze link will now be an option there. Here’s what it looks like.
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 structure the site so that academics only vote up links in their area. So when people click on the philosophy tab, it will only show sites that have been submitted to the Philosophy category and have been voted up by philosophers.
I just launched the expansion a few hours ago. I’ve also added some new features. The one I am most excited about is the ability to login using many of the main online accounts out there (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Google, LinkedIn).
Spread the word to your friends in other departments.
I’ve posted the penultimate version of my paper “A Defense of the No Minimum Response to the Problem of Evil,” on my research page. It’s forthcoming in Religious Studies.
It’s been awhile since my last blog entry. We hit the end of the semester crunch, and then I went out of town. I’m now back doing work, and posts will resume.
Two cool things happened in that break. I had two papers accepted for publication!
The first is a paper on the problem of evil called “A Defense of the No Minimum Response to the Problem of Evil,” and it’s now forthcoming in Religious Studies.
The other paper is forthcoming in Philosophical Studies. It’s called “Descriptivism, Scope, and Apparently Empty Names,” and I co-authored it with Ben Caplan.
I’ve recently been pulling together that reference volume in epistemology that I’m under contract to edit. I never actually posted the line-up of contributors, but now I’m ready to do that. I’ll post details in a separate post.
We (Android for Academics) upgraded Grade Rubric. Now users have the option of generating an email message when you press the calculate button. The auto-generated message will include the final grade and a breakdown of your marks for each rubric category. All you’ll have to do is enter their email address (which will be very quick if your students are in your gmail contacts) and press send. You can even customize the subject, intro message, and signature.
The title of my talk is “Natural Disasters and the Existence of God”. I’m posting my presentation slides here, so the audience (and anyone else) can view them later.
I wrote my first app for the Android platform, and I’m pretty excited about it. It’s called Grade Rubric. It’s a simple tool for professors who grade papers and assignments using a grading rubric.
You can read more about it here. Search for the app on the Android Market under “Grade Rubric”.
