There are 13 posts previously published on April 18th
- 2023
- Reclaim Community It’s been live for a bit now, but I am finally getting around to writing a bit about Reclaim Hosting’s new micro-site that essentially aggregates all the different channels that we use to communicate the work we do more broadly. … Continue reading
- 2019
- Reclaim Video: Incubating the Future of VHS This morning Tim gave me a tour of all the work he has been doing to automate Reclaim Video over the last week or so—it is pretty impressive. The first 15 minutes of the discussion is of my face given … Continue reading
- 2014
- Internet as Utility Last night was yet another gripping installment of The Internet Course. Maddie, Matt, and Meredith presented their research on cloud computing. Turns out, just like with Online Dating, the history of this phenomenon is much longer than you’d think. The group … Continue reading
- 2013
- bavatuesdays episode 3: The Girl Who Knew Too Much This was a particularly fun discussion for me, and it came at a time that I desperately needed a distraction. Paul Bond continues to be nothing short of gold when it comes to these discussions about Mario Bava’s films, and … Continue reading
- 2012
- Miles Takes City Hall Out of the blue last week a librarian at the Central Rappahannock Regional Library called Anto and I asking if we’d let our son Miles speak to the Fredericksburg City Council about the benefits of their continued support of the … Continue reading
- This Week in ds106: Archiving and the Digital Last night I went on roughly an hour and fifteen minute rant during this #ds106 session about archiving and the digital. It was all over the place, covering everything from Wikipedia to Tupac to the Numa Numa Guy to Star … Continue reading
- 2011
- Weeks 14-15: Fandom, Archiving, and Wrap-Up It has been a long, inspiring semester—but now it is coming to an end and this post will take you through the last of it. Please read it all, and please read it carefully. Also, important note for UMW students, … Continue reading
- 2010
- Back to the basics I really was at least thinking about taking a hiatus from blogging last week, even though it was couched as a joke, but it’s clear that’s impossible for me right now—I like having this space of my own to mouth … Continue reading
- Bava Manbaby Mr. Charlie Rocket has been nothing but pure gold in the Digital Storytelling course I have been running this semester. His digital story consisted in a teaching himself Photoshop tricks and hacks, and relfecting and sharign the process, and the … Continue reading
- 2009
- What do Bruce Sterling, Twitter, Emily Dickinson, and the bava have in common? They’re all recommendations in this week’s New York Times Magazine. As you can see the bava keeps only the best of company 🙂 More seriously, I’m really not sure how or why the hell this happened, but I find it … Continue reading
- Spider-man 1967, Epsiode 3 Yet another episode of the 1967 Spider-man series, this week’s villain is none other than Mysterio. In fact, he has the best quote of the series yet, “Don’t ya know, you can’t keep a good menace down.” Enjoy!
- 2008
- Pickering Institute (ab)using WPMu; or what’s in a domain? This is kinda fun, the for-profit online college Pickering Institute is using WordPress Multi-User to spread the good word about consolidating student loans, Vegas deals, and domain parking. Now I have championed WordPress Multi-User for a while now because it … Continue reading
- The Mist (2007) I can’t resist a Stepehen King film adaptation, it is one of my great weaknesses and has accounted for many wasted hours in my life. I had already voiced my excitement about Frank Darabont’s film adaptation of Stephen King’s novella … Continue reading
This page uses Alan’s wp-posted-today: WordPress plugin provides shortcode for displaying posts published on current day. Like John Johnston before me, I find it fascinating to see what I posted when over the long tenure of this blog. And again, like John, “it also allows me to do some digital gardening, mending broken images and links as I wander through my past.”
