Recently, I made the mistake of signing up for Alignable, a service that, in my naïveté, I viewed as a competitor to Linked In. I compounded this error by failing to read the fine print in the user agreement. Thus, in the past few days, Alignable was able to reach into one of my e-mail accounts, harvest the addresses of people with whom I have corresponded over the years, and used the resulting list to generate false invitations to connect.
If you have received an e-mail from Alignable that purports to be from me, please accept my most humble apologies. Please rest assured, moreover, that these messages were sent without my knowledge, let alone my conscious endorsement.
As you might expect, I have closed my account with Alignable. This, I hope, puts an end to this irritating business. If, however, you continue to receive messages through Alignable that purport to be invitations sent out by me, please feel free to mark them as ‘spam’. They may contain my name and likeness. However, they are, most assuredly, not from me.
In a recent post on the subject of the Canon of William S. Lind, I claimed that readers could obtain gratis copies of Piercing the Fog of War through Academia.edu. This is not true. The PDF available through Academia.edu consists of the front matter for the book, and not the book itself.
I have made suitable corrections to the article.
you got to be careful of internet
Happens to the best of us. It’s helpful to others to acknowledge it in many more ways than just correcting the record - it exemplifies scholarship imho.