Did I tell you how happy I am to be back at UMW? Well, if I haven’t yet, then this post will seal it.
Carole Garmon (whose sculpture blog Prodigious Builders rocks!) stopped by this morning to tell us about the student art show that went on this past weekend — which I missed, bad, [...]
Archive for March, 2008
Storm Tossed Ship (Gonna Make it to the Ocean)
Published by March 31st, 2008 in UMW Blogs and art. 4 CommentsDon’t Call it A Blog!
Published by March 29th, 2008 in accs, northernvoice, nv08, nv2008 and presentations. 1 CommentOver the last month I was a proud member of two different presentations with the same title, “Don’t call it a Blog, Call it an Educational Publishing Platform.” The whole idea behind these presentations was to highlight the immense possibilities open source web publishing tools like WordPress Multi-User and Drupal afford educational institutions for [...]
WPMu at a campus near you?
Published by March 28th, 2008 in WordPress, insructional technology, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 6 CommentsWordPress Multi-User as an educational publishing platform…who knew? You, that’s who!
The Blogs@Baruch publishing platform, powered by the ever venerable WordPress Multi-User, is ready for official promotion, so given my status as fanboy, consider it promoted. Mikhail Gershovich has worked long and hard over the last year and a half on this project, and if [...]
No Country for Old Men, or the end of cinema
Published by March 27th, 2008 in film, film noir, films and movies. 21 CommentsLet me ask you something. If the rule you followed brought you to this, of what use was the rule?
This is the question I would ask of the Coen Brothers after watching this film. The rule in my mind was the reworking of a narrative logic in their films spanning over twenty years, in particular [...]
Scott Leslie passed along video footage of Friedrich Nietszche that is pretty wild. Nietzsche’s works have undergirded much of Western Civilization’s art, literature, drama, and philosophy throughout the twentieth century; his aphoristic philosophical writing re-imagined entire structures of thought. In many ways, he is far more an abstraction than an embodied reality —a series of [...]
Educational Blog Aggregation that Scales
Published by March 26th, 2008 in WordPress, insructional technology, open education, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 9 CommentsI just commented over at William & Mary Blogs (wmblogs.net), and I can’t begin to tell you how excited I am that William & Mary is not only playing around with WordPress Multi-User and kicking around the questions surrounding aggregation, but blogging it publicly! That takes it all to the next level. I should [...]
Akismet…Ouch! for WPMu
Published by March 25th, 2008
in spam, wordpress multi-user and wpmu.
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Patrick just informed me the great Spam Karma 2 plugin is no longer being maintained by the developer (something I should have know, but may have purposefully blocked), and a quick search for the developer’s blog (Unknown Genius) may very well confirm this given it is no longer available. So, being reluctantly forward-thinking I took [...]
In truth, if the bava could dance I think it would do the Tecktonik, a new dance craze from France sweeping the world via YouTube. A few of the highlights of this cultural phenomenon, as I so vaguely understand it, are as follows:
First and foremost —and my personal favorite— is the requisite mohawk/mullet hairdo. [...]
Important Update: In the following discussion I talk about how changing the UTF8 setting in the wp-config.php file for WPMu to UTF-8 fixed my encoding problem, and this is true. That said, this change has led to a far bigger problem, namely it has prevented me from creating any additional sites on my WPMu account. [...]
Andy Warhol’s Clockwork Orange
Published by March 21st, 2008 in YouTube, art, film and movies. 2 CommentsSince I am already talking about Warhol and film, here is a bit of “Did you know?” trivia I found pretty fascinating when I first heard it.
Did you know that Andy Warhol made the first film adaptation of Anthony Burgess’s novel Clockwork Orange? Trippy, right? He actually bought the rights and made the experimental [...]
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