Tag Archives: archive

Domain of One’s Own as Legacy Archival Project

Posted on July 26, 2012 by Reverend

In the seven years I have been at UMW’s Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies we’ve done a fair bit of experimentation. Most of that has been centered around commodity web hosting, domains, and one-click install open source applications. That … Continue reading →

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This Week in ds106: Archiving and the Digital

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Reverend

Last night I went on roughly an hour and fifteen minute rant during this #ds106 session about archiving and the digital. It was all over the place, covering everything from Wikipedia to Tupac to the Numa Numa Guy to Star … Continue reading →

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ds106 live broadcast 7-18-11: Press Conference with Detective Kim Droom

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Reverend

Today’s press conference with Detective Kim Droom starts to shed some light on the events of Camp Oblivion this past weekend. There is a suspect in custody. Also, both Jim Groom and Dr. O’Blivion are alive and well and being … Continue reading →

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Ace in the Hole

Posted on July 11, 2009 by Reverend

The Media Funhouse just posted about the unbelievable classic film treasures that enjoy a short, but rich life on YouTube (kinda like the cicada in August). And the two collections he links to are filled with Western and Film Noir … Continue reading →

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WPMu as OCW Platform….a solution?

Posted on July 3, 2009 by Reverend

David Wiley just blogged about using WPMu as an OCW solution, and one of the issues he is running into is directory structure. What he wants is each department to have its own parent blog, and then child blogs within … Continue reading →

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Archiving ain’t easy: bringing old one-off WP sites into WPMu

Posted on July 1, 2009 by Reverend

Every Summer we try and both update and archive some of the old projects we have on the various Bluehost accounts we have done over the last 3 or 4 years. It is a painstaking process, and when you have … Continue reading →

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Web 2.0, Imperialism, and Nation Building

Posted on April 22, 2009 by Reverend

I couldn’t help but pause over a recent headline I came across in my RSS reader, and while I can’t find the original post I scanned yesterday, a quick search brought this one up first from startuparabia, “Google, AT&T, Automattic … Continue reading →

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I like crazy

Posted on January 14, 2009 by Reverend

Re-posted from UBUWEB’s Outsiders thanks to the Assorted Street Posters archive.

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YuleTube

Posted on December 20, 2008 by Reverend

Looking for classic Christmas television? Kliph Nesteroff’s Classic Showbiz Television blog may be the best online filters for television on the web. He seems to tirelessly comb social video sites for archival classics that suggest an insane—almost encyclopedic knowledge—of the … Continue reading →

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WPMu Sitewide Tags, Feeds, & Archives! Oh, My!

Posted on July 23, 2008 by Reverend

So….so so so so so so, it’s time for a little walk down WPMu history lane. Last year at this time I was desperately scrambling for a way to have sitewide tags for UMW Blogs. I found the solution in … Continue reading →

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