Author Archives: Reverend

Sharing My Favorite RSS Feeds

Posted on January 23, 2014 by Reverend

I wrote about my foray into the self-hosted world of feed readers with Tiny Tiny RSS earlier this month, and I have to say it gave me some satisfaction to read that Martin Hawksey is giving this oepn source feedreader another spin. If … Continue reading →

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Pigeons, Vaporettos, and Masks

Posted on January 21, 2014 by Reverend

My family and I spent close to four weeks in Italy over the Winter break. We go every two or three years to visit Antonella’s family and friends, and often remain in Trento for most of the trip. That was … Continue reading →

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Reclaim Workshop

Posted on January 21, 2014 by Reverend

I was invited to give a talk at the Sloan-Consortium’s 7th Annual Emerging Technologies for Online Learning. I’ll be talking about Domain of One’s Own, Reclaim Hosting, web thinking,  and some of the amazing possibilities we’re starting to see emerge … Continue reading →

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L.O.B.

Posted on January 20, 2014 by Reverend

Or, LEGIONS OF BOOM! Why Boom? Well, because of hits like this by Seattle Seahawks safety Kam Chancellor: Yesterday Miles and I finally got to watch a couple of NFL playoff games. Miles has become a major Seahawks fan this … Continue reading →

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The Highs and Lows of Swimwear

Posted on January 18, 2014 by Reverend

This above image published on Shorpy’s archival photo blog back in 2007 just came across my radar thanks to UMW über-librarian Jack Bales. Below is the description: June 30, 1922. Washington policeman Bill Norton measuring the distance between knee and suit at … Continue reading →

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Big Fan!

Posted on January 17, 2014 by Reverend

One day I will get back to this blog, but in the meantime just remember I’m a BIG FAN of yours!

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National Register Rap

Posted on January 9, 2014 by Reverend

Four Historic Preservation students at UMW created a rap video in which they outline how the National Register for Historic Places actually works. What’s more, they openly—albeit very politely—express a few frustrations with some of the beureacratic disconnects that seem … Continue reading →

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The Academic GIF

Posted on January 9, 2014 by Reverend

I wrote several months ago about the experience of working alongside UMW’s Chinese History scholar Sue Fernsebner to start imagining how she might integrate animated GIFs into a curriculum centered around film analysis. I tongue-and-cheek referred to it as GIFiculum, or GIF … Continue reading →

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Reading Capital: a Long Overdue Postmortem

Posted on January 8, 2014 by Reverend

I spent part of the early Summer of 2008 exploring the possibilities of building an ad-hoc community around a series of videos of the Marxist scholar David Harvey teaching Karl Marx’s Das Kapital Volume 1. A few folks at CUNY’s … Continue reading →

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/~space

Posted on January 7, 2014 by Reverend

 Well, it [the fallout from NSA’s spygate] exposes the vulnerability of centralized services like Google, Facebook and Yahoo. And in industries where privacy and personal information security matter, like education … the importance of a distributed permission-based system becomes increasingly … Continue reading →

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