Oop, that title should be "HumanistDad Spreads His Words" (although I do need to exercise more...).
HumanistDad joins Planet Humanism
It seems only appropriate that I join the 'Planet Humanism' blog aggregator so I've added the pretty link to my blog. I've sent an email to nullifidian telling him that there is a problem copying and pasting the code for the link but maybe it's just my computer or Blogger.
It's great to see a lot of names on the aggregator but I'm concerned that most are members of Planet Atheism, too. This could mean that the two aggregators may become mirrors of each other, which would be unfortunate.
Two solutions come to mind.
1. Filter the members to those who are actually humanists (what? no Humanism ID? Sorry...)
2. Some sort of technology that allows the bloggers to self-identify each blog post as atheism- or humanism-related so that it gets to the appropriate aggregator. Maybe a simple check-box gadget-thingy?
All the best to the new Planet Humanism!
HumanistDad to be published
Recently I've been following David Smalley's blog who is the Design Editor for American Atheist magazine. I guess they were desperate for content after some big-name atheists were unable to send in their commentary (apparently some sort of wardrobe-malfunction) so he asked me to send in one of my posts. It's been approved and is scheduled for the March edition. I trust it will appear in a classy section of the magazine but I wouldn't feel too bad even if it turned out in the 'Alternative News' or 'Comics' section!
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Hi,
when I first set up Planet Humanism, this was both considered and discussed with Pedro as a potential issue.
My feelings at the time (and remain) is that while there may be (and indeed is) an overlap with Planet Atheism (and other aggregators like Atheist Blogs) there are certainly atheists that don't consider themselves humanists, and vice versa, as well as there being those who consider themselves "spiritual" or otherwise not-atheistic who are, by definition, not necessarily appropriate for PA but are more than welcome at PH.
Hope this clarifies it for you, but I'm happy to answer any other questions.
Cheers!
As an addendum and to pick up something I think you were trying to get at but I'm unsure, people are free to offer or supply a filtered RSS feed of their humanism-related posts only (e.g. by category if their platform of choice offers it) or with something like Yahoo! Pipes to do that if they.
However, if someone wants their entire blog feed (i.e. the author is a humanist but not everything they post about is humanism-related) to be used that's cool too. It's down to the individual about what they'd like to be included, and I'm sure Pedro is happy to have a filtered feed for atheism-related posts if people are able/willing to supply them.
I'm just a simple man with an ugly blog. I guess what I meant about 'technology' is that I don't have it. Maybe I need to learn how to do this high-fallutin' RSS Pipes thingys!
Even if I knew how to direct my blogs to the appropriate aggregator, I'd probably just be lazy and send them to all of them anyway...
Congrats!
And if you figure out how to use Yahoo Tubes or filtered RSS or the like, please let me know. I guess about one in ten posts -or fewer - on my blog are atheism related.
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