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NW Freethought Alliance Conference 2012

prodigl — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 06:24:11 +0000

Richard Dawkins will provide the keynote address for the NW Freethought Alliance Conference.

Dawkins to Speak in Renton.

Dates: Friday March 30 – Sunday April 1

Location: Renton Technical College, 3000 Northeast 4th Street, Renton, WA

Was Socrates cool?

prodigl — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:16:10 +0000

Jesse K submits this evidence.

While living in Seattle, Jesse used to dialogue regularly with SCS and now facilitates the San Diego Socrates Cafe, with 123 members. Last summer, he dropped by Socrates Cafe Seattle. You can hear him in the audio of our July 22nd discussion. (He weighs in on the politics of Burning Man.)

Σωκράτης Cafe Σιάτλ

prodigl — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:45:09 +0000

The fruits of insomnia.

You can now read this page in Greek (and 50 or so other languages, though, sadly, not Esperanto) simply by toggling the widget in the lower right sidebar.

Socrates Cafe Seattle: Now Googleable

prodigl — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:58:39 +0000

Thanks for all the feedback on the new site! I’ve placed reciprocal links between new site and old (and fixed typos!), per your suggestions. So if someone seems interested in dropping by or joining the email list, tell them “Go to Socrates Cafe dot info” and they’ll find both sites.

Or, hey, you can tell them “Go to Groups dot Yahoo dot com slash Group slash (all one word) socratescafeseattle. No, don’t include ‘all one word’! I meant socratescafeseattle is all one word.”

I also tweaked language on the Yahoo Group to improve Google results for the old site.

I’m pleased to report that socratescafe.info now ranks on Google page 1 for both “socrates cafe seattle” and “seattle socrates cafe”. (Interestingly, Google treats these as different searches.)

Alas, the new site doesn’t even rank in Yahoo searches. But no matter! The Yahoo Group ranks on Yahoo page 1. (And its Google placement is also much improved.)

Now, back to philosophy.

Socrates Cafe Seattle: New (or second) home

prodigl — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:56:03 +0000

It’s been frustrating for a while that our Yahoo Groups site doesn’t rank in the first 100 search results on Google for “Socrates Cafe Seattle”. And that the inactive Meet Up group ranks first. And that the functionality of the Yahoo site is so limited.

So I decided to put together this basic WordPress site and mirror some of the Yahoo Group content. I hope this will help people find us both on the net and in person.