Author Archives: Reverend

Cloning the UMW Blogs Empire

Posted on November 17, 2008 by Reverend

This Thursday I’ll be heading down to Longwood University to do a workshop on Web 2.0, blogging, and the like. Liz Kocevar-Weidinger of the Greenwood library at Longwood saw a few of us from UMW present last year on the … Continue reading →

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A Song for our Times

Posted on November 17, 2008 by Reverend

Image Credit: “Sometimes pictures just compose themselves” by phxpma. Re-visiting my overflowing WFMU feed is always a pleasure, and last night I actually spent some time listening to The J’s with Jamie’s “Hey, Look Us Over!”, and while I wasn’t … Continue reading →

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Twitter Country

Posted on November 16, 2008 by Reverend

Randy Thornton, proprietor of the Metamedia blog, rocks! He recently wrote and performed his own song about Twitter called “Still tweeting 4U”. I love this kinda stuff—this is who we are, damn it! It may be a country song, but … Continue reading →

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FeedWordPress Widget: If you blog it, it is no dream

Posted on November 16, 2008 by Reverend

Less than a week after blogging my wish for a widget that would allow people to add links to their sites (no matter where they are hosted, they just need a valid feed), which in turn would be automatically entered … Continue reading →

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Aldous Huxley on freedom, communism, technology, and the pharmacological revolution

Posted on November 15, 2008 by Reverend

Cliph Nesteroff’s blog Classic Television Showbiz is one of the great filters for YouTube on the web. He consistently puts up a ton of great clips of all sorts of gems from the golden age of television. Recently he linked … Continue reading →

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Google My Maps with RSS

Posted on November 13, 2008 by Reverend

I have been working with Marjorie Och’s Art History seminar to build a virtual exhibit on Venice this semester, and we are using Google’s My Maps collaborative feature to have everybody add points, images, and links to one map. Today … Continue reading →

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FeedWordPress: A Widget Wish

Posted on November 12, 2008 by Reverend

The whole syndication-oriented architecture (feed-frenzied learning) many have been playing with using WordPress Multi-User has been moving along pretty well for us at UMW. With the help of just a couple of plugins we have been able to generate a … Continue reading →

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Punk ‘n’ Pie

Posted on November 10, 2008 by Reverend

Hats off to the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Cinematèk once again for their upcoming Punk ‘n’ Pie film series, which looks to be an amazing retrospective focusing predominantly on the UK Punk/New Wave scene (a majority of them I haven’t … Continue reading →

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Langston Hughes’s “Ku Klux Klan”

Posted on November 9, 2008 by Reverend

After reading Natalie Smith’s post on the “Audio-Video Adaptation of Hughes’s ‘The Weary Blues’”, I suddenly remembered that about a year ago, while digitizing a good amount of audio from the James Farmer archive at UMW, I had come across … Continue reading →

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“Mother Trucking Zombies”

Posted on November 7, 2008 by Reverend

I’ve never had as much fun delivering a presentation as I did last night while co-presenting “The Revolution Will be Syndicated” with Tom Woodward in Second Life for NMC’s Rock the Academy conference.  It was nothing short of a blast, … Continue reading →

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