Monthly Archives: March 2007

Russian Agit-Pop video via WFMU (is there any better blog going?)

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 … Continue reading

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Student Academy 2007, Hallelujah!

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 … Continue reading

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Grandma-ster Flash

Grandma Mashup -you won’t regret it! Via WFMU’s Beware the Blog which, in turn, found it via Monkeys for Helping.

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Unpublished Sylvia Plath poem brought to you by an undergraduate blog at UMW?!

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 … Continue reading

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“Just Say No!” A few more reasons for universities to foster independent mediated voices

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 … Continue reading

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Structures of Feeling

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 … Continue reading

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David Lynch’s Creepy Public Service Announcement

[youtube]ZSWv90msTUc[/youtube] 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).

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“YouTube Depends on Us”

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 … Continue reading

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Green with envy

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 … Continue reading

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Education: The 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 … Continue reading

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