Category Archives: Domain of One’s Own

Domain of One’s Own: Weave Your Own Web

Posted on August 15, 2013 by Reverend

Michael Branson Smith took up my call for Domain of One’s Own posters, and his North by Northwest-inspired masterpiece is above. I love it. I am printing out posters of this asap!

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Welcome to Cloud City…

Posted on August 14, 2013 by Reverend

Your domain is waiting for you Go to www.umwdomains.com to move in today. ______________________________________ The above poster is all Martha Burtis, and I love it! The visual is inspired by Cloud City from The Empire Strikes Back, and I love the … Continue reading →

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Reclaim Hosting: Battling Digital Somnabulism One Domain at a Time

Posted on July 26, 2013 by Reverend

A week after launching Reclaim Hosting it seems like the project has hit a broader, international nerve. By a conservative count Tim Owens and I did this morning , it looks like we’re going to need a bigger boat  based on … Continue reading →

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DTLT Today: Episode 104, UMW’s Domain of One’s Own

Posted on July 20, 2013 by Reverend

Note: At two points in the above video (roughly at 12 minutes and 22 minutes) there’s cacophonous feedback when we go to the shot of the laptop. Andy picks it up and fixes it soon after the 22 minute mark. … Continue reading →

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An Ode to UMW Faculty

Posted on July 19, 2013 by Reverend

Andréa Livi Smith, who’s a Historic Preservation professor at UMW, found time on her blog to write a little ode honoring UMW’s DTLT. She contextualized it with an explanation as to why she is so enamored with this cutting edge, … Continue reading →

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Gulou or, Public Scholarship in the Digital Age

Posted on July 19, 2013 by Reverend

This post is long overdue, and if I hadn’t checked out for a couple of months in April and May it would have been blogged on the bava a lot earlier. In fact, it’s criminal it hasn’t been broadcast more … Continue reading →

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Y U NO Domain of One’s Own?

Posted on July 18, 2013 by Reverend

Tim Owens just framed out in this post how we can scale the possibilities of UMW’s Domain of One’s Own project to just about any professor from any school that might be interested. What’s interesting here is that the “we” … Continue reading →

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A Domain of One’s Own to Community Syndication Hubs

Posted on April 2, 2013 by Reverend

I will be heading up to Boston this weekend thanks to Philipp Schmidt and Claudia Caro Sullivan who are hosting an open learning hackathon at MIT. Below is the proposal I submitted for an idea I would like to pursue conceptually and … Continue reading →

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Can Universities Reclaim the Web Too?

Posted on February 20, 2013 by Reverend

In the chapter on “The Public Engagement as Collateral Damage” in Martin Weller‘s The Digital Scholar he talks about the fact that traffic to user-generated content on commercial sites is far greater than free, open content on higher education sites: … Continue reading →

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It Takes a Liberal Arts Village to Raise a Digital Campus

Posted on February 18, 2013 by Reverend

UMW alum-cum-journalist Lindley Estes wrote an article today in the local Fredericksburg paper, The Free-Lance Star, about the brave new digital world emerging at UMW (forgive them the ads and video commercials, online publishing has confounded more than a few newspapers). It’s pretty cool … Continue reading →

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