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UMW Blogs support videos for WPMu 2.6

Posted on August 8, 2008 by Reverend

The inimitable Andy Rush (a.k.a. EduRush) and I have been working diligently to create a whole slew of screencasts documenting the new interface for WPMu 2.6. We’ve finished a whole bunch of them over the last week or so and … Continue reading →

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The Many Languages of UMW Blogs

Posted on August 2, 2008 by Reverend

Recently I have been working with a French professor who had been playing around in Blogger, and was thinking abut using a blog in his class. I got to see some of the finer features in Blogger, and I really … Continue reading →

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UMW Blogs Documentation updated for WPMu 2.6

Posted on July 31, 2008 by Reverend

I tweaked the documentation for UMW Blogs to reflect the administrative back end changes for WPMu 2.5 & 2.6. I figured this may be helpful to some folks that are using this application and might need some screen shots, quick … Continue reading →

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Media Anarchy in WPMu?

Posted on July 29, 2008 by Reverend

Update: The latest beta of the Anarchy Media player can be downloaded here, and you might be happy to know it works with WPMu 2.6—huge thanks go to IndyMedia for the tip in the comments below. Has anyone seen this … Continue reading →

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UMW Blogs: Over 1 Billion Characters Served

Posted on July 3, 2008 by Reverend

Well, UMW Blogs is now on a dedicated server after a year of shared hosting to run over a thousand blogs. We are quickly approaching the 1500 blogs mark, and the database is 1.1 gigs with over 11,000 tables. Seems … Continue reading →

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Marking Digital History at UMW

Posted on April 26, 2008 by Reverend

Jeff McClurken’s Adventure’s in Digital History seminar is (or is it “was” now?) a pretty amazing thing. The driving logic of the course was that four distinct projects, each dealing with a unique facet of local history, were be framed … Continue reading →

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10 ways to use UMW Blogs

Posted on April 21, 2008 by Reverend

About two weeks ago I asked our kick ass student aids Joe and Shannon to start a wiki page outlining ten possible ways to use UMW Blogs. Soon after I went in and re-arranged, added, edited, etc. Last week DTLT’s … Continue reading →

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Storm Tossed Ship (Gonna Make it to the Ocean)

Posted on March 31, 2008 by Reverend

Did I tell you how happy I am to be back at UMW? Well, if I haven’t yet, then this post will seal it. Carole Garmon (whose sculpture blog Prodigious Builders rocks!) stopped by this morning to tell us about … Continue reading →

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Akismet…Ouch! for WPMu

Posted on March 25, 2008 by Reverend

Patrick just informed me the great Spam Karma 2 plugin is no longer being maintained by the developer (something I should have know, but may have purposefully blocked), and a quick search for the developer’s blog (Unknown Genius) may very … Continue reading →

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UMW (Blogs) Postscript

Posted on January 25, 2008 by Reverend

Leave Your Tag courtesy of Alexleo10 Well, it had to happen sooner or later, and as I have been telling the folks at UMW for the last week or so: I am going out on top! This coming week will … Continue reading →

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