Content Roundup for April 2012: Flowering

April is the start of skeptic event season in the US, so there was a bit of activity around that. In social media, a tweet of mine about American Airlines quickly became my second most retweeted item ever, thanks as usual to the Bad Astronomer. Also on Twitter, I picked a bit of a fight with some atheists, which resulted in lots of page views here.

Anyway, if you were busy during April and missed some of the action, here’s a way to catch up. Herein are links to the content I’ve been involved with in the last month. It includes this blog as well as the material I post on other blogs, my podcasting activities, my best posts on Twitter as well as key shout-outs or mentions elsewhere.

I’m also trying to document on a monthly basis what my contributions are to several skeptic-relevant crowdsourcing projects. This is part of the build-up to the workshop I’m presenting at TAM 2012 in July, titled “The Future of Skepticism Online: Crowd-sourced Activism”. I hope many of you will join me for that.

Read on to see what you might have missed…

Blogging

Here were my blog posts this month.

• April 2: Skeptools: RBUTR is the newest tool in the skeptic arsenal
• April 9: Skeptools: To reach out to non-skeptics, you’ll need some basic SEO
• April 10: Skeptools: How many skeptic podcasts are there? Please help me find them all
• April 13: Skeptools: There is no #AntiAtheistCampaign on Twitter. It’s just a crackdown on spam.
• April 16: Skepchick: Crowdsourcing Skeptical Outreach on Wikipedia
• April 27: JREF Blog: Skeptic History: Asteroids
• April 29: Skeptools: Is 2012 the year of skeptical software tools?

Mentions and links on other blogs:

• March 16: Two Different Girls: The JREF Forum Scholarship, and an Internet Family A nice mention of me I stupidly missed including in last month’s round-up.
• April 13: Two of the blogs I cited in my #AntiAtheistCampaign post including What Would JT Do? and Esoterica issued corrections and thanked me, linking to my post. Thanks!
• April 14: Doubtful News: No, Twitter is not being anti-atheist.
• April 15: The Twenty-First Floor: Skeptic News: Atheists Accuse Twitter of Censorship… Again Nice coverage of that same post.
• April 22: The Twenty-First Floor: Skeptic News: AIDS Kills Another AIDS Denier Thanks for the link to What’s the Harm, too!
• April 25: RBUTR blog: Newsletter #3

Podcasting & Video

I contributed segments to these episodes of Skepticality:

• April 10: #180: Odds of Popular Beliefs
• April 24: #181: Unnatural Evolution is a Funny Thing

On other podcasts:

• April 28: Skeptic Zone #184: Interview with Tim Farley  Thanks, Richard!

Social Media

I posted on Twitter:

• 176 regular tweets, including:
  • 18 “What’s the harm in…?” stories
  • 31 Daily skeptic history facts
  • 42 retweets of other people
• Plus 182 replies to other Twitter posts for a total of 358 tweets

Here are highlights, the tweets that were retweeted the most.

Skeptic History: 11 year old Emily Rosa's debunk of Therapeutic Touch was published in JAMA April 1, 1998. bit.ly/b7xzZc—
Tim Farley (@krelnik) April 01, 2012

(10 retweets, 1 favorite)

Homeopath threatens blogger @DanBuzzard with legal action, via @DoubtfulNews: bit.ly/HQXUw0 #ten23—
Tim Farley (@krelnik) April 05, 2012

(14 retweets, 6 favorites)

What's the harm in homeopathy? Penelope Dingle's letters to her homeopath. (She died 25 Aug 2005) bit.ly/HgUbCP via @endless_psych—
Tim Farley (@krelnik) April 05, 2012

(20 retweets, 5 favorites)

How many skeptic podcasts are there? I reveal my answer: bit.ly/HEt7ke Did I miss any? Please comment!

—
Tim Farley (@krelnik) April 10, 2012

(6 retweets, 6 favorites)

Was there an #AntiAtheistCampaign on Twitter right as #AtheistCon opened? The nerve! I investigated: bit.ly/Il6ajN

—
Tim Farley (@krelnik) April 13, 2012

(7 retweets, 3 favorites)

What's the harm in astrology? Astrologer advises parents to bury their child alive. bit.ly/I2voli via @DoubtfulNews

—
Tim Farley (@krelnik) April 18, 2012

(7 retweets, 3 favorites)

What's the harm in being anti-vaccine? Measles in US worst in 15 years. bo.st/JU8cqa via @DoubtfulNews #NECSS #SkeptiCalCon #skepoz

—
Tim Farley (@krelnik) April 21, 2012

(17 retweets, 1 favorited)

Ask @AmericanAir to cancel anti-vaccination message, it is dangerous & wrong. chn.ge/HWR7Mc #StopAVN #health #vaxfax

—
Tim Farley (@krelnik) April 22, 2012

(119 retweets, 9 favorites) Reached up to 197,000 users on Twitter, thanks to Phil.

What's the harm in chiropractic? 30 yr old man dies after neck adjustment (June 2011) bit.ly/IWMUxN via @jpinley #NECSS #skepoz—
Tim Farley (@krelnik) April 22, 2012

(9 retweets, 2 favorites)

What's the harm in traditional Chinese medicines? DNA analysis shows allergens, toxins, poor labeling. bit.ly/HS9UHP via @EdzardErnst—
Tim Farley (@krelnik) April 23, 2012

(13 retweets, 1 favorite)

Is 2012 the year of skeptical software? Lots of cool new misinformation-fighting tools in the works. bit.ly/Kkrntb—
Tim Farley (@krelnik) April 29, 2012

(7 retweets, 4 favorites)

To get these as I post them, you should follow me on Twitter here.

Crowdsourcing Contributions

Here were my contributions to various projects this month:

I contributed 5 edits to Wikipedia.

I rated 5 sites on Web of Trust and left 1 new site scorecard comment.

I made 11 edits to the Skeptic History database. It now has 1423 items.

I created an event page for Skeptic’s Toolbox, added guests and added many coverage links to my Skepticism event guide on Lanyrd.

On to May, to be certain.

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