Author Archives: Reverend

Questioning the Conformity Curve

Posted on July 6, 2015 by Reverend

The folks involved in Cal State University, Channel Islands’s domains project known as CI Keys, wrote a series of really thoughtful posts about the projects from a variety of vantage points. Michelle Pacansky-Brock wrote about the project as a catalyst for … Continue reading →

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Stabilizing AWS Costs on UMW Blogs

Posted on July 5, 2015 by Reverend

One of the quiet wins we had in DTLT this semester was moving UMW Blogs to Amazon Web Services. It was essential because this platform was quickly outgrowing the limits of a dedicated server. In fact, if it weren’t for Tim Owens‘s fancy … Continue reading →

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Duke’s Website has Gone Docker

Posted on July 4, 2015 by Reverend

http://t.co/YUs8YEmRIe has gone #Docker! As of today @DukeU‘s main site now hosted entirely in #Docker containers! @DukeOIT @DukeWebServices — Chris Collins (@ChrisInDurham) May 12, 2015 I was excited to see Tony Hirst retweet the news that Duke University’s website is … Continue reading →

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That’s a Cinematic Parking Garage

Posted on July 4, 2015 by Reverend

The spring issue of Cinema Retro has a feature on the 1976 version of King Kong as well as an article on Orca: the Killer Whale (1977). Great reading, now I’m gonna have to re-watch both films this month. A short bit … Continue reading →

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Remember the time I photobombed Tim Berners-Lee at IndieWebCamp

Posted on June 30, 2015 by Reverend

That was awesome!

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Nacho Cerdá is Phenomena!

Posted on June 29, 2015 by Reverend

Saw 2001: A Space Odyssey last night in 70MM at the relatively new movie theater Phenomena http://t.co/B23lwemtwC was awesome — Jim Groom (@jimgroom) June 11, 2015 One of the things I have been dying to writing about is the awesome … Continue reading →

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Don’t get on the bava blacklist

Posted on June 29, 2015 by Reverend

In my last post I mentioned I was doing some sysadmin work for UMW Domains and UMW Blogs, as well as Reclaim Hosting—although Tim gives me only so much room to hang myself when it comes to Reclaim 🙂 One of the main … Continue reading →

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Reclaiming the bava

Posted on June 27, 2015 by Reverend

Been away, but now I’m back. I’m finally starting to feel the transition away from UMW to Reclaim take hold. I’ve been traveling pretty non-stop since the beginning of June, and the last week back in Fredericksburg has been equal … Continue reading →

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The Un-education of a Technologist: From EDUPUNK to ds106

Posted on June 11, 2015 by Reverend

Below are the slides and a transcript of the text I planned to follow when I delivered my talk this morning at the EDEN Annual Conference in Barcelona. That said, I didn’t keep to the script because I get too excited … Continue reading →

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On Maelstroms and Syndication Buses

Posted on June 9, 2015 by Reverend

I am preparing a talk for Thursday that revisits a journal article Brian Lamb and I wrote in late 2008, early 2009 for the Universities and Knowledge Societies Journal (RUSC) titled “The Education of as Un-Artist…or is that the un-education of the technologist?” It’s … Continue reading →

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