Problems accepting course blog invites

Several people have had problems accepting their invitations to be posters here on the course blog. Based on a couple of examples, I'm guessing that the problem in many cases is that your e-mail client is breaking the (fairly long) URL that Google/Blogger is mailing to you.

As an example, one person passed along their invitation e-mail and it had a link that looked something like (I've changed some of the numbers):

http://beta.blogger.com/i.g?inviteID=4622562676191033393&blogID=89562679374
14
940892

Notice how the "14" and "940892" ended up on the following lines? There are part of the "blogID" field in that URL and need to be added (without any spaces) to the end of the URL for it to work. (Thus the end of the URL should be "...37414940892".) Many mail clients break up long lines, even when they're URLs, leading to links that in fact don't work (like the one above). If your mail client is doing that I would (a) fuss about it and/or change to a different client for reading your mail and (b) type in the URL by hand, putting together the broken pieces. That should work, allowing you to accept the invitation.

If you can't seem to get the darn thing to work, please swing by the office some time and we can go through it together. Thanks!

Please check the blogroll for your blog

I've copied all the addresses of your blogs based on the comments you posted in class today. There are 31 there (including me), which makes me think that I'm one short. Copying those over was all done by hand, though, so it's certainly possible that I just missed someone by accident. Could everyone please check that their blog is on the list? If yours is missing, let me know ASAP and I'll fix it.

I just made up link names based on what I had in front of my (your screen name and your URL), and some are more probably more useful as discriminators than others (many are very similar and could easily be confused). If you'd like me to change the label of your link, just let me know, as it's a pretty trivial thing for me to fix.

While most of the info in your comments is enough for me to know who's who, there are several blogs that are currently anonymous to me. If yours is anonymous, and if you haven't sent me an e-mail with the info, please do so soon. Thanks.

Lastly, you should have gotten an e-mail informing that you've been invited to join this blog as a co-author. Clicking the link in that e-mail and logging in with your Google account e-mail and password will then complete the process of making you a co-author of this blog. All your personal blogs will remain personal, and only you can post to them. This blog, though, will be shared, with anyone able to post. My intent is that any personal writing (e.g., my answer to the meme questions) will go on individual blogs, but that material that's likely to be of general interest (upcoming events, certain assignments to be discussed next week, questions about pizza preferences) would go here. I'm hoping that this co-author invitation will be pretty straightforward, but I've not used this before so let me know if you have any difficulties or just find it strange and baffling. Thanks!

Dawidoff is now in the bookstore

I just wandered through the bookstore, and there are nice happy piles of Dawidoff's In the country of country ready for you to rush out and purchase. Have fun!