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My Blue Screen Heaven (or my MacBook Pro Windows XP Install)
Well, installing Windows just got a little easier, primarily because you can now do it on a MAC! The Bootcamp setup assistant makes installing Windows on your MacBook Pro as easy as finding an external disk drive on OS X.4. … Continue reading
Freaks, Monsters, & Prodigies: an Image Database for Literary Studies
By way of boingboing, as usual, I discovered an unbelievable example of how image repositories and the study of literature are made for one another. John Anzalone, professor of French at Skidmore College, in collaboration with the Tom Hickerson and … Continue reading
Social Networking and Global Nationalisms
Fred Stutzman, manager of the Lyceum project and co-founder of claimID.com, has an excellent post about five huge social networking sites. Despite frequent assumptions that Web 2.0’s social networking is always already a global phenomenon, the five sites listed in … Continue reading
WSJ on Craigslist Refusal to Advertise
Interesting article in WSJ about Craigslist turning its nose up at half a billion dollars in advertising revenue. Craigslist’s obstinate insistence on giving away what newspapers have made their bread and butter has gotten the company a lot of media … Continue reading
Setting up a MySQL Database for Lyceum
I had mentioned that I would further detail the steps of setting up a MySQL database for Lyceum for those of you that may be unfamiliar with the process. Keep in mind, however, that the following steps assume that you … Continue reading
DAMS: thinking the future of scholarship digitally
Update: For a nice overview of Digital Asset Management Systems on college campuses check out the recent article in Campus Technology. Thanks Andy! Well, I have been away from bavatuesdays for a while now, and I have been beating myself … Continue reading
Second Life Ecosystem
Zach just pointed me to a recent boingboing article about a game programmer who took time off to be with her child and, as a diversion, create an ecosystem in Second Life!
Good, Old Freddy …
Gardner Campbell just tipped me off on a veritable gold-mine of old postcard images of Fredericksburg, VA offered through the Central Rappahannock Library. Why might this be of interest to a native New Yorker and Yankee through and through, you … Continue reading
Second Life: So Cool it is Spooky!!!
A screenshot of me getting ready to ride through the Haunted House for the Second time in Second Life. I can’t even begin to describe how cool this place is, but I will say this much, a friend of mine … Continue reading
Cac.ophony: or, the mellifluous sounds of inter-campus collaboration
Mikhail Gershovich, the director of the Bernard L. Shwartz Communication Institute at Baruch College (CUNY), has been engaging many of the questions about technology and learning that we are dealing with here at UMW. Like us, he has been integrating … Continue reading