Category Archives: Domain of One’s Own

On a Scale of 1 to 10….

Posted on September 22, 2016 by Reverend

I like quoting movies (often butchering the lines) and repeating stupid sayings ad nauseam, things like “On a scale of 1 to 10,” “Big Fan,” “#4life,” etc. I tend to denature these terms. None of them are really unique to me, I … Continue reading →

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Coventry Domains

Posted on September 21, 2016 by Reverend

Guess who's back working with us here in the lab;) w/ @villaronrubia @disrupt_learn @jimgroom #domainofonesown alive and living @covcampus pic.twitter.com/4AkTRoIwcH — Jonathan Shaw (@time_motion) September 21, 2016 I guess if the big boss is making it public, it’s safe to say … Continue reading →

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Opening Pandora’s Box at Coventry

Posted on September 14, 2016 by Reverend

Yesterday I spoke with a faculty cohort at Coventry University about creating their own portfolios. This group was part of the Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice in Higher Education (or PgCert) course led by Martin Jenkins. PgCert provides professional development … Continue reading →

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Citizen-Ex’s Cultural and Political History of Top-Level Domains

Posted on September 6, 2016 by Reverend

I was musing about the vanity domain industry in a recent post about WordPress opening bids on .blog domains (a TLD they purchased for somewhere in the neighborhood of $20 million). In the comments Tim Owens left a link to … Continue reading →

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Georgetown Slavery Site

Posted on September 3, 2016 by Reverend

One of the things we were given a heads up about recently was the fact that the Georgetown Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation site would be running Georgetown’s Domain of One’s Own server. Earlier this week they gave us a heads up … Continue reading →

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bava.blog

Posted on September 3, 2016 by Reverend

Tim pointed me to Matt Mullenweg’s post back in May that WordPress now owns the top level domain .blog. Seems like it cost them $20 million, which seems a ton—but it points to the big business that is the TLD industry … Continue reading →

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Putting Domains Infrastructure in the Cloud

Posted on August 30, 2016 by Reverend

This semester we having been moving our Domain of One’s Own (DoOO) packages for new institutions to Digital Ocean. Up and until now we haven’t run DoOO through cloud infrastructure providers like AWS, Linode, Digital Ocean, etc. for two reasons: price … Continue reading →

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OER16 In Conversation

Posted on June 16, 2016 by Reverend

In an ongoing effort to chronicle all the OER16 goodness, I wanted to point to this 20 minute conversation I had with Ammie Scott and John Johnston for Radio Edutalk. I just re-listened to the audio because it had been almost … Continue reading →

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Digital Dioramas

Posted on June 11, 2016 by Reverend

On Wednesday I was able to tune into the Decentralized Web Summit for a couple of hours thanks to the live stream. The event was hosted in the web’s chapel or, the Internet Archive. The video stream has all been archived, and … Continue reading →

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Practical Advice for Running Domain of One’s Own

Posted on June 10, 2016 by Reverend

I spend some of my time these days giving sage advice; us thought leaders do that from time to time—consider it a fringe benefit of staying my ass in school 🙂 Anyway, I was asked how I would approach framing a Domain of … Continue reading →

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