Admin Updates

Read The Libertarian Standard in Google Currents

by on December 9, 2011 @ 7:30 am · 0 comments

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Google Currents is a just-released free news reader app for iOS and Android that is intended as a competitor for Flipboard and Yahoo! Livestand.

Once you have installed the app on your phone or tablet, you can add the Currents edition of TLS by navigating to this url in your browser:

http://www.google.com/producer/editions/CAowlJ0L/the_libertarian_standard.

If you haven’t installed the app already, you will be prompted and given options to do so.

Google already has “more than 150 publishing partners to offer full-length articles from more than 180 editions including CNET, AllThingsD, Forbes, Saveur, PBS, Huffington Post, Fast Company and more. Content is optimized for smartphones and tablets, allowing you to intuitively navigate between words, pictures and video on large and small screens alike, even if you’re offline.”

Find out more from the official announcement on the Google Mobile blog.

Here’s a video introduction:

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Subscribe to the Libertarian Standard on Your Kindle

by on July 15, 2011 @ 1:45 pm · 7 comments

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I’m pleased to announce that you can now subscribe to the Libertarian Standard on your Kindle ereader.

Simply follow the link to the product page or click on the ad-button below, in the sidebar, or at the bottom of each post.

Amazon sets the price, which is currently at $0.99/month, with a 14-day free trial.

We get a cut of 30%, which will go toward operating costs: domain registration, hosting, and the like.

If you have a Kindle ereader — not an app, sorry, but the physical device (the service is limited to them for the time being) — consider the advantage of subscribing to the Libertarian Standard. Posts will be delivered to your Kindle wirelessly (when you’re connected) when they’re published on the site. You’ll be able to read our commentary and analysis, as well as the syndicated Mimi & Eunice comics, at your leisure on a lightweight, very portable device, in sunlight, away from a decent wireless or 3G/4G connection. Good for commutes, plane flights, camping trips, and similar situations in which you’re not consistently connected to the world via the internet and can’t reach our site — particularly if you don’t own a 3G/4G-connected tablet pc and don’t like reading on a computer screen or lugging around your heavy laptop.

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Major Site Redesign

by on September 24, 2010 @ 10:18 pm · 3 comments

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We decided to switch to a 2-column layout with only 1 sidebar, and we added some new features in the process. I’ll highlight the major changes.

The main content column is now wider, making the text easier to read with less scrolling. The remaining sidebar is a bit wider than the old sidebars were individually as well. We’ve moved a lot of the sidebar widgets, so that you’ll have ready access to the most relevant features and content depending on what you’re doing.

You will only see the blog archive widgets (for posts by date, author, categories, and tags) in the sidebar on the various archive pages, for when you’re actually browsing or searching the archives. We’ve long had our Tag Cloud page, also with a tag index, but now we’ve added a Blog Archives page. On this page we’ve embedded the Collapsing Archives, List Authors, and Collapsing Categories sidebar widgets with the Widgets on Pages plugin (and some custom css). When you have a hankering to browse or search the archives, check out these two pages.

By the way, in case you didn’t know, you can subscribe to author-specific and category-specific rss feeds, if you are especially interested in a particular author or topic, by right-clicking on the rss icon beside the author’s or category name, copying the url, and adding it manually to your favorite rss reader.

On all other pages with sidebars, you will find the recent posts and recent comments sidebar widgets. The site visitors and FeedBurner subscribers widgets have been moved to the About page. We switched to the Collapsing Links plugin to minimize the footprint of our blogroll.

We removed our old popular posts widget from the sidebar entirely and switched to the WordPress.com Popular Posts plugin. Instead of displaying a small sidebar list of the most popular posts for the last 30 days, we recently created the Popular page where you will find lists of our most popular posts and pages (ranked by page views) for the current day, the last 7 days, the last 30 days, and all time.

We hope you’ll find the new layout cleaner and more attractive, providing easier access to more relevant content and features.

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New Syndicated Series: Nina Paley’s Mimi and Eunice Webcomic

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché August 1, 2010

Great news! We’re launching a new series on The Libertarian Standard. We will be syndicating the IP-related installments of a funny (and free!) new comic strip, Mimi and Eunice, created by Nina Paley. Nina is a creative artist and anti-copyright innovator, creator of Sita Sings the Blues (see The Creator-Endorsed Mark as an Alternative to [...]

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Follow us on the new Digg

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché July 29, 2010

We’re on the new Digg. If you are too, you may want to follow us: http://new.digg.com/libstandard. The new Digg allows us to import our blog feed, automatically digging each of our posts as they are published. You can follow other people and organizations just like on Twitter. This may just revitalize Digg and make it a [...]

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Announcing the TLS Q&A Series and Libertarian FAQ

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché July 4, 2010

You may have already noticed that we’ve launched a new feature on The Libertarian Standard: the Libertarian FAQ. We’re formally announcing it now. You may also have noticed that the FAQ is pretty much empty at the moment. That’s where you, and another new feature we’re announcing today, come in. We will be gradually filling [...]

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We’re on Facebook and Twitter

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché April 5, 2010

For those who don’t already know – we’re on Facebook and Twitter. You can become fans of The Libertarian Standard on our Facebook fan page. All of our posts are partially re-posted there with a teaser and link to the full post; you can “like” the posts, share them with friends on Facebook, discuss them, [...]

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