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Roundup: What I've Learned About Marriage; Copyright Justice; Utilitarianism

By Robyn Broyles

July 03, 2009 07:00

Here is a roundup of the latest articles on Leave the Lights On:

I recently celebrated my tenth wedding anniversary with my wonderful husband.  Find out what it has taught me about this sacrament:

A federal court recently fined a single mother $1.9 million—for violating copyright on a few songs.  Most Americans think this fine was outrageous—but was it really?  Read my analysis:

Secularism can free the human mind to develop all kinds of new philosophies and ideas.  Unfortunately, the results of lofty "free thinking" without Christ's guidance can be deeply disturbing.  Uncover the strange beliefs of preference utilitarianism:

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The Old Blog (and Old Comments) Are Still There!

By Robyn Broyles

June 20, 2009 10:59

Summary of this post:  Information about the old blog, old comments, the site feed, and all that weird legalese you may have seen.

I have had a few questions about the old blog, including the old comments.  It seems I'm guilty of a major oversight:  telling readers where to find the old blog now that the domain points to this new site.  You can see all the old posts (including ones that have been moved here) and all the comments at this address:

Since I used Intense Debate for comments, I can export comments.  Eventually I want to bring them over here, if I can figure out how to do so.  I won't be using Intense Debate over here because I don't need to—the Injader comment system is far superior to Blogger.  Besides, some people complained that it was confusing, asking for a login even though anonymous comments were allowed.  By the way, the same is true here on the new site: anonymous comments are permitted, but user accounts are available too.

Other minor news:  I tweaked the site feed.  This affects those of you who receive posts by email or in a reader.  Sorry you got all that weird legalese about disclaimers and so forth (I didn't mean for that to go to the feed).  I used some free "boilerplate" policies just to protect the authors here, after having heard horror stories of humble bloggers being sued and financially ruined.  It's scary looking stuff, I know, but basically just means "don't sue me."  Also, read the Privacy Policy (link at the bottom of every page) if you want to know what happens to your information when you create a user account.  The bottom line:  Not much.  Nothing will ever be shared.

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Blogroll is Up: Is Your Link Here?

By Robyn Broyles

June 18, 2009 19:48

A list of "Recommended Websites" (blogroll) has been added to the left sidebar. If you think I missed a good one, (maybe yours), please let me know!

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Welcome to Our New Site!

By Robyn Broyles

June 17, 2009 17:23

Welcome to the new and improved home of Leave the Lights On.  If you are reading this via a feed reader or email subscription, make sure you click through to see the redesign.

Without further ado, I would like to point out the first new article available only on this new site:

Catholic Answers Sues the IRS: Turnabout is Fair Play

Here are a few of the new features:

CONTENT BY CATEGORY.  Along the top navigation bar, you'll see the main content categories, such as "Science," "Catholicism," etc.  Each of these has subcategories.  The subcategories are experimental; I would like to see if they help people navigate or just impede it.  Explore them and see what's there!

USER ACCOUNTS.  You can create a completely optional user account to solidify your identity in the community (look in the upper left corner of the page).  By doing so, you get a permanent dofollow link to your homepage with every comment you leave.  If you like, you can also upload an avatar and edit your profile to include personal details about yourself.  Comments on new posts are open to anonymous users.

COMMUNITY FORUMS.  A lot of the readers here already belong to a loose community of Catholic science bloggers and the larger community of general Catholic bloggers, science bloggers, etc.  The community forums are a place where we can have conversations that don't have to be tied to a specific blog post.  You have to create a user account to post here.

MULTIPLE FEEDS.  The main Feedburner feed will contain all new posts (articles), but not forum threads.  It also will not include items posted in the Home category.  You can subscribe separately to just the categories that interest you, or you can subscribe to the Home category to receive a periodic digest/wrap-up of recent posts.

MULTIPLE AUTHORS.  I'm not the smartest blogger or best writer out there—maybe you are!  Guest posters are wanted.  You get increased exposure, a permanent dofollow link to your website, and if you like, reciprocal guest posting (I would be happy to write a post for your blog).

STILL TO COME:  I need to get my blogroll over here ASAP, and other small changes will probably appear, as I work out any issues and bugs in this "beta" version of the new site.

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