The spam wars had gotten ugly here at Weblogs@UBC lately — what was especiallly frustrating was that we were being feasted on by the same set of spammers, and the existing SpamLookup plugins were apparently powerless to repel their attacks. Thanks to Joe for turning up and installing the Movable Type plugin for Akismet. I […]

Irregular readers of this cozy lovenest of ed tech subversion may recall my participation in the recent Tronti weblog symposium. As expected, my own submission was more than a bit goofy, and barely relevant, but it was fun to do. Soon after, activity started to crank up around a similar symposium concerning Gayatri Spivak. This […]