Over at WFMU’s Beware of the Blog, Kliph Nesteroff linked to a cartoon he found at Cartoon Brew (a new gem in the reader) titled “In the Nicotine” from 1961 which is about a man who is checked into a kind of rehab for smokers by his wife to kick the habit. I think the [...]
Archive for March, 2009
My Ubuweb feed just brought forth another little treasure, this time Kathy Acker reading excerpts from her book My Mother: Demonology (1994) which is set to music and titled Redoing Childhood. This album was released by Kill Rock Stars after her death in 2000. It’s a haunting series of track, perfect for my mindset these [...]
Articulating the bus
Published by March 30th, 2009 in UMW Blogs, rss, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 5 CommentsHere one of my many attempts to articulate what I think is the heart of the experimentation we are doing, namely UMW Blogs as a syndication bus. I have a feeling I’ll be making a number attempts over the next six months to makes this clearer—but here is an early attempt. Thank Philipp Schmidt for [...]
Check out the reviews and recommendations from Claudia Emerson’s Creative Writing class. Featuring everything from Yusef Komunyakaa’s Neon Vernacular to Edwin Arnold’s Fear of Death and Other Poems to Nikki Giovanni’s Love Poems. And we can’t forget The Outlaw Bible of American Poetry, and that’s just a few samples. See them all here.
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A great zombie short from my favorite episode of George Romero’s brilliant Creepshow (1982), a grossly underrated film. Leslie Nielsen is genius in this one, and his whole AV fascination and the high-tech, camera controlled house was always one of my favorite elements of this short—but I have to say the whole “I CAN HOLD [...]
An Integrated Domain
Published by March 29th, 2009 in WordPress, insructional technology, plugins and wordpress multi-user. 3 CommentsI have been thinking pretty consistently, but rather quietly about the idea of a domain of one’s own. In fact, I’m starting to read Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own for several reasons, but one of them is for some fodder for a presentation on the idea I will be doing at Duke University [...]
One blog…or many? A Closer Look at “American Technology and Culture”
Published by March 29th, 2009 in UMW Blogs, wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 6 CommentsJeff McClurken and I have been working on a project for his History of American Technology and Culture course that I am pretty excited about. I’m digging this one in particular because it highlights some of the unique possibilities of building an exhibit of student research in WordPress Multi-User. But before I get started, I [...]
Lafayette College Piloting WPMu
Published by March 29th, 2009 in wordpress multi-user and wpmu. 1 CommentThis tweet from Bryan Alexander,who has been generously tracking the discussions and presentations at the NITLE Instructional Technology Leaders conference, alerted me to an impressive pilot of WordPress Multi-User at Lafayetter College. It’s a fine looking educational publishing paltform, and I really like the way their pilot includes academic courses, administrative offices, student groups, and [...]
Image credit: Mutter_fluffer’s ‘In the Plague House at Jaffa with Napoleon’
Here is the latest PR move by Desire2Learn to call out BlackBoard and their lawyer zombies. I guess there is something to it, and it’s obviously going to put BlackBoard in a public opinion corner, but who really gives a fuck about LMSs? A plague [...]
Exclusive US release on the bava: TINS “Spaceland”
Published by March 25th, 2009 in music and video. 1 CommentHere’s a first for the bava, I get to introduce the Western hemisphere to a kickass band from Trento, Italia: TINS (a.k.a Tourists in Sunderland). “What the hell are you doing pushing music you philistine?!” you ask accusingly. “You’re a b-movie junkie, stick to what you know!” Calm down, Hoss, my special lady friend just [...]
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