Tag Archives: api

Configuring Email for a Ghost Docker Container on Reclaim Cloud

Posted on January 15, 2022 by Reverend

When I first installed Ghost many a year ago the most difficult element of setting it up was getting mail working. I used Mailgun for the first time during that process, and since then API-driven mail services have become pretty … Continue reading →

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Utopian Tendencies Episode 5: the Utopian Rhetoric of Web 2.0

Posted on July 11, 2020 by Reverend

https://bavatuesdays.com/wp-content/audio/utopian_tendencies_5_utopian_rhetoric_web2.mp3 Trying to catch up on the Utopian Tendencies radio show Lauren Heywood and I have been producing the last couple of months. This recording is from the June 26th, 2020 live stream on ds106radio. This was the first time … Continue reading →

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Directories for Domains: a Community Approach

Posted on November 27, 2017 by Reverend

Many of us in a certain subgenre of edtech have been working for a long time to try and use RSS to syndicate and aggregate posts from individual blogs into community sites. These sites are sometimes referred to as planet … Continue reading →

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And that, my friends, is the Personal API

Posted on March 30, 2016 by Reverend

A couple of days ago the Programmable Web wrote an article about the work BYU is doing to give students more control over their data. The idea undergirding this is the concept of a personal API, what exactly that means remains … Continue reading →

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Domains as Ground Zero for the Struggle over Agency

Posted on December 21, 2015 by Reverend

I was really pleased with Marguerite McNeal‘s article in edSurge on Brigham Young University’s Personal API experiment. It can be hard to explain (at least for me), but she does an excellent job providing an accessible frame for the project by … Continue reading →

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A Domain of the Practical

Posted on August 26, 2015 by Reverend

Adam Croom offered up a hypothesis in response to my post about the “Long Short History of Reclaim.” He argues that as much as Domains at the University of Oklahoma is deeply embedded in a philosophy of empowerment, ownership, and experimentation, it’s also … Continue reading →

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Reclaiming the bava

Posted on June 27, 2015 by Reverend

Been away, but now I’m back. I’m finally starting to feel the transition away from UMW to Reclaim take hold. I’ve been traveling pretty non-stop since the beginning of June, and the last week back in Fredericksburg has been equal … Continue reading →

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Ordering a Pizza in 2015

Posted on June 7, 2015 by Reverend

In 2004 the ACLU framed a biting critique of the uncontrolled collection of personal data on the web by imagining what ordering a pizza in 2015 might look like. It had a bit of a revival last year, and it … Continue reading →

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Block chain: “the only workable, distributed key value store in existence”

Posted on June 7, 2015 by Reverend

The subtitle of this post is a direct quote from Phil Windley‘s Block chain session at the University API conference. Phil wrote a short post a couple of months ago about why block chain is important, and I had the … Continue reading →

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A University API

Posted on December 11, 2014 by Reverend

As I mentioned in my last post, the Chief Information Architect (Phil Windley) and CIO (Kelly Flannagan) of Brigham Young University visited UMW last week to learn more about the Domain of One’s Own project we’ve been running for the last … Continue reading →

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