Robert W. Gehl @robertwgehl@scholar.social

Apparently, Martin Luther King, Jr, was a "cowboy." https://www.chronicle.com/article/Bucking-Critics-U-of-Wyoming/243929

dammit, don't correct me, Mastodon, that was @ robertwgehl @ scholar.social with no spaces! 😀

booyeah, registered for #AOIR18 (Association of Internet Researchers) and asked for my "Twitter handle" to be @robertwgehl

One professor's solution to academic overproduction: stop writing

https://www.chronicle.com/article/Higher-Ed-s-Real/243867

At this point, waiting for a response for so long, I *will* take "No" for an answer. At least it would be an answer! #academicCommunication

Is this a story of recovery from addiction, or an ad for an opiod-blocker? The picture and the story make it read like it was paid for by whomever makes the drug. https://www.sltrib.com/news/2018/06/19/this-university-of-utah-athlete-once-spent-more-than-200-a-day-for-drugs-like-heroin-now-he-hopes-his-story-will-prevent-youths-from-addiction/

Fox: "Let's switch from the World Cup to... golf." Telemundo: "¡Más fútbol para ti! ¡Futbol todo el día!" Gracias, Telemundo!

I am so grateful and flattered that Whitney Phillips, Nik John and Alexia Maddox wrote endorsements for my book, Weaving the Dark Web. I've admired their work for years now. It's funny how isolating writing a book can be, and how putting it out there can be terrifying... to get short, positive blurbs from people you admire means a great deal.
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/weaving-dark-web

Experiment/art project: use Noscript but block everything *except* ad networks and trackers and see how the Web looks

Any members of the Society for People Interested in Boring Things here on scholar.social?

Thinking of starting a predatory pay-to-publish journal called Publish or Perish. Anyone interested in being on the editorial board?

Probably a longshot: does anyone out there know a place to find BBS archives, specifically between 1980 and 1984? I've scoured textfiles.com, and it's good, but perhaps there's more?

Congrats to my partner, who I may now refer to as Doctor! She defended her PhD dissertation today!

Hey, Linux users and researchers: any recommendations on a #timeline program? I used Calizo in the past (http://calizo.sourceforge.net/) but it's been abandoned and no longer works on modern systems.

I would like to avoid web-based systems and instead have the data on my machine.

This GDPR thing is awesome... all the spammers are emailing begging me to opt into being spammed... lovely