Archive for October, 2009

EDUPUNK Interview: Educational Commodification, Origins, and the Reification of an Idea

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Some time this month I was interviewed by Jim Saunders, Steve Howard, and Nicole Veerman about EDUPUNK.  The were interested in the idea, and they are doing a series of interviews as a part of their graduate journalism class at the University of Western Ontario. Their blog tracks the progress of a [...]

Looking for Whitman, or “Shut the Front Door!”

Well, if I am gonna be honest with myself I have to admit that I have been a total “beauty school dropout” this semester, I have been trying hard to keep up with my various duties, but the tidal wave that is my life right now has washed away all my good intentions. In fact, [...]

Edupumkin, or how Tom Woodward stole my heart

If you don’t think Tom Woodward is a total maniac already, you’ll need no more proof than this to be finally convinced.  How can I not love this guy with all my heart, he is the creative master behind everything on the bava of worth for just about the last two years.  Long live the [...]

A Bava Bumrush of WordCamp NYC

I’m pretty excited for the upcoming WordCamp in NYC, not only is it a wonderful excuse to go back home, but it is also shaping up to be one of the biggest WordPress shindigs ever. Moreover, it’s being hosted at CUNY’s Baruch College providing some well-earned recognition of the amazing work happening at Blogs@Baruch—a recent [...]

FAQ for Universities Interested in WPMu

This morning I had a fun conversation with David Grogan, Ilene Chen, Stephen McDonald, and Hannah Reeves from the academic technology group at Tufts University. They had some questions about running a large scale WPMu installation at Tufts University, and below are some of their questions followed by my working answers. Figured I’d republish it [...]

And how does BuddyPress fit in to that future?

After writing my last post, I realized that a key ingredient to the future of the WP/WPmu merger will actually be BuddyPress. I really like what BuddyPress brings to UMW Blogs: a blogs directory, a member directory, groups, and profile pages—all key to affording visitors more ways to explore what’s going on. But that is [...]

The Future of WPMu

There has been a lot of discussion about the future of WPMu with the coming merge of WPMu and WP, and I understand there are concerns and issues all around. I’m not in the business of selling WPMu, so my concerns aren’t so much caught up with the preservation of the WPMu name, but they [...]

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Andy Rush illustrates the truth with this tweet! The bava, shaping traffic patterns since 2005!

A Mario Bava sighting in Virginia

Well, after four years I finally officially consider myself a Virginian after buying some of the bloodiest soil in the US. And I have to say it is nice to see that Virginia, in cooperation with the Library of Congress Packard Campus, has been planning their cultural events accordingly.  That’s right, on October 39th Mario [...]

BlackBoard: Innovate, Educate, Litigate

One thing that has stuck with me in my quest to bury BlackBoard over the last four years has been just how shamelessly BlackBoard’s PR message is so hypocritical when looked against their baseless legal aggression against their competitors. I think far too many organizations and institutions have given them far too much leeway, and [...]




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