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“Reverend” Jim “The Bava” Groom, alias “Snake Pliskin” is a charlatan and a fraud, a self-confessed “used car salesman” clawing his way into the glamour of the education technology keynote circuit via the efforts of his oppressed minions at the University of Mary Washington’s DTLT and beyond. The monster behind educational time-sink ds106 and still recovering from his bid for hipster stardom with “Edupunk”, Jim spends his days using his dwindling credibility to sell cheap webhosting to gullible undergraduates and getting banned from YouTube for gross piracy.
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Category Archives: wordpress multi-user
Deep Thought #453: Porting the ELS Blogs WPMu install to a new domain
“Without order nothing can exist – without chaos nothing can evolve.” – Unknown Picture used courtesy of Ivanomak I spent most of the last two days (and all of today well into this evening -meaning now) finishing up a transfer … Continue reading
More than one way to skin a class with WPMu
We have been experimenting at some length with WordPress Multi-User at UMW as of late. Now I have focused almost exclusively on creating course spaces using a series of distributed feeds. In short, students feed out their posts by particular … Continue reading
ELS Blogs rock!
Even if I must say so myself. Ok, so Gardner Campbell is at it again with ELS Blogs and the results are nothing short of amazing -did you expect any less from him? I try and keep up with the … Continue reading
Semiologic Theme: WordPress as a CMS that much closer
Once again, Mario A. Nuñez-Molina is fueling this blog and I can’t thank him enough. He recently turned me on to the Semiologic theme for WordPress -designed by Denis de Bernardy- which really pushes the possibilities for thinking about a … Continue reading
divShare plugin for WordPress and WPMu
Recently I have been corresponding with Mario A. Núñez Molina, a professor at the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus, who has been also working on integrating a WPMu blogging solution (RUM Edublogs) for the College of Arts and Sciences. … Continue reading
WPMu Smackdown: RSS, Autoblogs, Aggregators, o-matics, and more…
So, it’s just about time to ckeck-in on the work that has been happening on the WordPress Multi-User front. First and foremost, Gardner Campbell is my Godhead. He is teaching two classes this Summer session and they are already abuzz … Continue reading
“What we do with WordPress echoes in eternity!”
Well, maybe not eternity, but certainly beyond graduation! 🙂 Mike Caulfield, my new favorite blogger, has been talking about the value of having students work with a web-based authoring platform that they can actually use after they graduate: And because … Continue reading
“We aint one-at-a-timin’ here, we’re mass communicatin’!”
Well, if you don’t know the quote from O Brother, Where art thou? it is worth a listen for it speaks to what exactly we’re doing over at ELS Blogs -this project ain’t no one off -this is the whole … Continue reading
Flickr blog is powered by WordPress.com, who knew?
Did anyone else notice that the official Flickr blog is hosted by WordPress.com? Perhaps not a groundbreaking discovery, nor particularly profound. Yet, it is reassuring to see Yahoo and the folks at Flickr using an open source, hosted solution like … Continue reading
Commentpress, Interactive Libraries, and WPMu
Image used courtesy of Jessamyn‘s CC Flickr photos. “And then I realized… like I was shot… like I was shot with a diamond… a diamond bullet right through my forehead.” Captain Kurtz in Apocalypse Now I saw Will Richardson’s post … Continue reading →