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Re-imagining the Science Poster
Thu, 2008/11/20 - 08:40 — jimgroomI have been moonlighting around campus this semester as a Dog, CogDog, introducing students and faculty to Alan’s 50 Ways to Tell a Digital Story. Well, there have been a number of good projects that I promise I will add to his wiki and tag in delicious accordingly.
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Blogging WordPress as a CMS
Tue, 2008/11/18 - 09:21 — jimgroomMartha Burtis is back in action at UMW, and she returns to us with a project that I am following with great anticipation: blogging WordPress as a CMS. As she notes in her introductory post on the topic:
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Cloning the UMW Blogs Empire
Mon, 2008/11/17 - 11:00 — jimgroomThis Thursday I’ll be heading down to Longwood University to do a workshop on Web 2.0, blogging, and the like. Liz Kocevar-Weidinger of the Greenwood library at Longwood saw a few of us from UMW present last year on the work we’ve doing, and she invited us down.
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A Song for our Times
Mon, 2008/11/17 - 07:53 — jimgroom
Image Credit: “Sometimes pictures just compose themselves” by phxpma.
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Twitter Country
Sun, 2008/11/16 - 19:22 — jimgroomRandy Thornton, proprietor of the Metamedia blog, rocks! He recently wrote and performed his own song about Twitter called “Still tweeting 4U”. I love this kinda stuff—this is who we are, damn it!
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FeedWordPress Widget: If you blog it, it is no dream
Sun, 2008/11/16 - 18:26 — jimgroomLess than a week after blogging my wish for a widget that would allow people to add links to their sites (no matter where they are hosted, they just need a valid feed), which in turn would be automatically entered into FeedWordPress and make the population of an aggregation site simple…it has arrived in the form of the
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Aldous Huxley on freedom, communism, technology, and the pharmacological revolution
Sat, 2008/11/15 - 05:20 — jimgroomCliph Nesteroff’s blog Classic Television Showbiz is one of the great filters for YouTube on the web. He consistently puts up a ton of great clips of all sorts of gems from the golden age of television.
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FeedWordPress: A Widget Wish
Wed, 2008/11/12 - 09:36 — jimgroomThe whole syndication-oriented architecture (feed-frenzied learning) many have been playing with using WordPress Multi-User has been moving along pretty well for us at UMW.
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