I was talking to Andy Rush and Jerry Slezak recently about the fact that the over 90 videos I have uploaded to my YouTube account have almost 360,000 views. A figure that is modest by YouTube standards, but still kind of blows my mind. And then Jerry asked the simple question, “How much time do you [...]
Archive for January, 2009
The time people will spend watching crap
Published by January 31st, 2009 in YouTube, video and video games. 5 CommentsI could write all about it, but I really think you should just listen to it.
Download Side 1 (16:42)
Download Side 2 (10:02)
WPMu Multi-DB Tutorial
Published by January 27th, 2009 in wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 19 CommentsSooner or later we had to do it on UMW Blogs, and over a week ago we made the jump to a multi-database setup for our WordPress Multi-User environment. We have a subscription to the WPMu Dev Premium service, which gives us access to the Multi-DB script. This code enables you to break one database [...]
Syndicatin’ Welfare: UMW Blogs’ Syndication Framework on the Cheap
Published by January 27th, 2009 in WordPress, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 10 CommentsCan you you feel the bass and guitar kick in, and hear the tempo surely rise? I knew that you could!
I know that it’s evil
I know that it’s got to be
I know I ain’t doing much
Doing nothing means a lot to me
Living on a shoe string
A fifty cent millionaire
Open to charity
Syndicatin’ welfare
Enjoy the rest here.
Everything [...]
WPMu Privacy Options and Sitewide Feeds-a question…
Published by January 26th, 2009 in wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 5 CommentsI’m in the process of writing up the syndication hub we got up and running on UMW Blogs, and I think it is as close as we’ve come to the mythical Eduglu. In getting my thoughts together to give a detailed overview of our setup a question has come up that I was wondering if [...]
Of Punks, Pimps and C.H.U.D.s: Gentrification in NYC as told by 1980s film
Published by January 25th, 2009 in movies. 6 CommentsDisclaimer: This is a “media-enhanced” version of a paper I wrote in graduate school for an American Studies course back in 2002. And while I recognize it is both rough and theoretically meager at certain points, I’m still fascinated with the overall premise of the argument, namely that through movies one can actually trace the [...]
I love movies that feature New York City during the late 70s and early 80s, they capture a space on celluloid that I want to constantly remind myself existed once upon a time. And after watching The Hitcher a little while back, Rutger Hauer reminded me of the classic Nighthawks which is an excellent example [...]
I just got a trackback from New South Blogs which is burgeoning publishing platform for the University of New South Wales, and it’s pretty cool to see the work many of us are doing in this regard impact and inspire folks all over the world. It is a brand new installation, but already Mat Wall-Smith [...]
Here is a wild example of how writing out in the open can lead to crazy things, like, for example, being read by a whole lot of people. This past weekend I read this post about an existential Garfield strip that ran back in October of 1989. It was written by a student (the great [...]
Yesterday I had a blast co-presenting with Alan Levine and Cole Camplese on re-thinking the blog as a creative engine that kind of pushes the way we conceptualize the idea of the blog.
Here is a link to the presentation site, and here’s my presentation page within that site. And finally, here’s Inigo Montoya wondering whether [...]
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