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-Clint Lalonde
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-Antonella Dalla Torre
“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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Tag Archives: Hack
Who ya gonna call? Pat Lockley!
Your site is hacked And it don’t look good Who ya gonna call? (PAT LOCKLEY!) I ain’t afraid of no Brits. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah I’m not sure, but I think Alan Levine maybe able to do something with that … Continue reading
Network Randoms
I’m just about finished with Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon’s 1998 1996 history of the creation of the internet Where Wizards Stay Up Late. I’ve been enjoying it thoroughly, and while I was familiar with much of the general history … Continue reading
Adding TinyMCE to WordPress User Profile Pages
The framework built in WordPress for the literary journal Shenandoah is all but done. I will be blogging the cocneptual approach to the framework and how we did it soon, but first I have to entice the genius Martha Burtis … Continue reading
Hacked P2: Is it a blog? A micro-blog? Or twitter?….Or all three?
I’ve been dying to blog this, but I’ve been in beautiful Camden, NJ, piling up more work to do for Digital Whitman, a project which will shortly become the center of my life. But before that happens, I wanted to … Continue reading
My tractor for a wiki farm
Image credit: gem66’s “Farm Tractor and Family” The recent annoucnement and sharing of the various extensions and code that enables user integration between WPMu and MediaWiki, I have once again returned to the idea of make the UMW Blogs Wiki … Continue reading
One blog…or many? A Closer Look at “American Technology and Culture”
Jeff McClurken and I have been working on a project for his History of American Technology and Culture course that I am pretty excited about. I’m digging this one in particular because it highlights some of the unique possibilities of … Continue reading
WPMu Sitewide Tags, Feeds, & Archives! Oh, My!
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
Simple Forums Plugin for WPMu
Once again, I must thank Dr. Mike for pointing me to the Simple Forums plugin at Yellow Swordfish. This is an amazing plugin that basically allows you to include a pretty powerful forum right into a blog on WPMu. You … Continue reading
Customize the WPMu Dashboard
Here’s a simple hack to make your WordPress Multi-User Dashboard display news and recent posts from within your specific WPMu community. For example, I am going to briefly illustrate how to display the “Latest News” for our community (traditionally where … Continue reading
WPMU permissions hack for new users
If you are using or administrating WordPress Multi-User you may have come across the following error message for new users creating just a login name (not getting blog): You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page. This problem … Continue reading