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Chris Street comments are in bright green;
highlights in yellow blockquotes.Thanks to Tim Maguire for alerting HASSERS about the new website from the Humanist Society of Scotland (HSS). My highlights of features include:-
- rotating quotes when home page is refreshed or you revisit site
- lots of white space
- Media Scan
- Thought for the Day
- In February 2007 HSS launched Think Humanist podcast site featuring from the distinguished philosophers A.C. Grayling, Nigel Warburton and Julian Baggini, CND Chair Kate Hudson, HSS Celebrant Gillian Stewart and award-winning comedian Stewart Lee, creator of Jerry Springer the Opera. Listen again.
- site aggregates podcasts from other humanist organizations and our current aim is to develop it into a global humanist 'Thought for the World’.
- The BBC does not allow secular thinkers on ‘Thought For The Day’ and is committed to keeping the slot religious. The Humanist Society of Scotland believes that morality and ethics are not the sole preserve of faith groups and have decided to create and podcast their own Humanist TFTDs here, on thinkhumanist.org .
- The site is linked to over 7000 Humanist orientated organisations throughout the world.
- I could not find these links
- Our aim is both to offer an alternative to religious morality and to show the BBC and the public that Humanists can be equally, if not more, thought provoking when tackling moral and ethical issues as religious thinkers.
- When you join HSS (£20 for individuals) you can attend local group meetings at no extra charge
- Local group calenders of events (eg Edinburgh) and blogs
- other links
- phpBB forum: read only for non members
- site map
As an HSS member myself, I would have liked to comment on the new website on the HSS forum but because of their policy of deleting comments they don't like and banning anybody who makes them, I am unable to do so.
ReplyDeleteI find the new website boring to look at - there is too much white space - and difficult to navigate. The content is very poor and and there are numerous monochrome pictures of a poorly attended meeting which give an unfavourable impression of the organisation.
I don't appreciate the changing picture at the top of the home page. These appear to be postcards containing quotes - many of them trite - from notorious freethinkers such as Muhammed Ali!
The real character of the HSS is revealed in the booklist in which humanist books appear to be included as an afterthought - pride of place being given to anti-religious books by militant atheists.
As an HSS member myself, I would have liked to comment on the new website on the HSS forum but because of their policy of deleting comments they don't like and banning anybody who makes them, I am unable to do so.
ReplyDeleteI find the new website boring to look at and difficult to navigate. The content is very poor and and there are numerous monochrome pictures of a poorly attended meeting which give an unfavourable impression of the organisation.
I don't appreciate the changing pic at the top of the home page. These appear to be postcards containing quotes - many of them trite - from notorious freethinkers such as Muhammed Ali!
The real character of the HSS is revealed in the booklist in which humanist books appear to be included as an afterthought - pride of place being given to anti-religious books by militant atheists.