Tag Archives: the wire

Wire 106: S01E01 “The Target”

Posted on August 15, 2014 by Reverend

In preparation for this semester’s wire106, Paul and I started having discussions about the various elements of storytelling in the first three episodes of The Wire. Paul has already blogged his reflections on the first episode of season 1, “The … Continue reading →

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#wire106 Comin’ Yo!

Posted on August 8, 2014 by Reverend

@jimgroom re: wire106. To help get in the rhythm i suggest group whistling like this: http://t.co/rFctNxBu0S — George Veletsianos (@veletsianos) August 8, 2014 The video George Velestianos linked to in the above tweet gets at what #wire106 could be far better … Continue reading →

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Wire 106: Welcome to Hamsterdam!

Posted on August 7, 2014 by Reverend

This fall I’ll be teaching a section of ds106 at UMW. I haven’t taught it in over a year, but the last time I did we themed the class around what might be the best TV series of all time: The Twilight Zone. … Continue reading →

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David Simon on America as a Horror Show

Posted on February 2, 2014 by Reverend

If I dig myself out anytime soon I have a pretty fun web project centered around David Simon’s brilliant television series The Wire that I want to run sometime this year. In the meantime, here’s a 26-minute video featuring David … Continue reading →

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The Lego Wire

Posted on July 19, 2012 by Reverend

This is pretty awesome if you are a The Wire fan. Thanks Mikhail and Luke!

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Thinking about Treme or: Creighton Bernette’s YouTube Rant

Posted on May 3, 2010 by Reverend

So, I have been religiously watching the first four episodes of Treme. I’m a bit conflicted about the series overall so far. There is a lot to like so far, but also a lot that leaves me kinda wondering why … Continue reading →

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Scenes from The Wire

Posted on March 11, 2010 by Reverend

Next Wednesday I’ll be doing a presentation at the ACCS conference titled “Is Less More? What The Wire Has to Teach Us About Institutional IT” wherein I use clips from David Simon’s brilliant series The Wire to examine the lie … Continue reading →

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The End of the American Empire

Posted on June 2, 2009 by Reverend

I recently came across three videos on YouTube wherein David Simon (of “The Wire” fame) is speaking at Loyola University about “unencumbered Capitalism” which has resulted in an “existential crisis” of epic proportions, namely the reality that “people matter less.” … Continue reading →

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Wiring the syndication bus together

Posted on May 28, 2009 by Reverend

Philipp Schmidt just posted on a cool new mashup of Google Forms and Yahoo Pipes that creates a kind of self-service aggregation of feeds for Peer-2-Peer University classes, you can see the prototype here. Go ahead, add the URL of … Continue reading →

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D’Angelo Barksdale reads The Great Gatsby

Posted on March 4, 2009 by Reverend

The Wire: D’Angelo reads The Great Gatsby This is a scene from The Wire I constantly return to in my mind for some reason. I mean it might seem obvious given I have a quickly vanishing background in American literature, … Continue reading →

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