Published by Reverend March 31st, 2007
in video.
Russian Agit-Pop Video by Lyapis Trubetskoy
from WFMU’s Beware of the Blog by Station Manager Ken
Sucker that I am for propaganda imagery, I couldn’t resist this video by the Belarus band Lyapis Trubetskoy for their song “Kapital.” Click the image for the streaming video from their (Russian) site:
(Link.)
I can only make out “Kapital” and “Marx.” Mikhail, [...]
Published by Reverend March 31st, 2007
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Some amazing stuff at UMW’s Student Academy 2007 this year. Ranging from presentations on Sylvia Plath to the real world economy of World of Warcraft! You can see the presentation schedule and detailed abstracts here. I can’t say enough how innovative and thoughtful UMW students show themselves to be at an event like [...]
Published by Reverend March 29th, 2007
in YouTube and video.
Grandma Mashup -you won’t regret it!
Via WFMU’s Beware the Blog which, in turn, found it via Monkeys for Helping.
Published by Reverend March 29th, 2007
in wordpress multi-user.
Ok, I’m gonna take a different tact from the RIAA’s methods of dealing with college students, rather then threatening suit and certain incrimination -I will celebrate the unbelievably cool work that has been going on here at UMW. Amanda Rutstein has been blogging an independent study on Sylvia Plath that she is doing with [...]
Published by Reverend March 27th, 2007
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I have been following some recent threads about the RIAA’s attempts to bully campuses into forcing students to comply with copyright laws. On boingboing, this article summarizes the University of Nebraska’s frustration with the RIAA’s demands to rat out students who are sharing music using peer-to-peer technologies. They were so fed up that they [...]
Published by Reverend March 26th, 2007
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Stephen Downes, in the quote below, crystallizes the reasons why the field of instructional technology needs to be a lot more than a conversation about a range of tools.
Presumably philosophy does have an inherent interest in something other than the making of money, though you would never know these days. Certainly, anyone with a [...]
Published by Reverend March 26th, 2007
in YouTube and video.
Because I am overloading on video these days, here’s another one for y’all! Sorry, I just can’t stop myself! Via WFMU (link).
Published by Reverend March 26th, 2007
in YouTube and video.
That is what Michael Frackas, general counsel for Viacom, asserts in his opinion piece in The Washington Post. Here is a brief summary of the article via Slashdot:
Fricklas asserts that the DMCA’s ’safe harbor’ provisions don’t apply because YouTube is knowledgeable to infringement and furthermore derives financial benefit from it. He also argues that [...]
Published by Reverend March 25th, 2007
in movies.
Mikhail, a good friend of mine, just sent me this screenshot via IM, letting me know he is watching Escape from New York. Oh, if I didn’t have two kids under three…
By the way, Harry Dean Stanton is my hero!
Published by Reverend March 25th, 2007
in movies and video.
Update: If I wasn’t so self-absorbed, I would have realized much sooner that Andy Rush, our resident multi-media god, has already built UMWTube, something quite similar to a YouTube inspired Drupal site but framed out using Ning. So there is yet another angle to pursue. You can request an invitation to see this site here.
The [...]
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