Monthly Archives: March 2008

Mashup mayhem dead ahead

A quick note to advertise my eager participation in next week’s NMC online Symposium on Mashups. The NMC knows how to do an online event up right, and my own interest in the topic is well-established. Looking forward to lots … Continue reading

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Analog bliss

Analog bliss, originally uploaded by MrGluSniffer. These were the records I acquired during a vinyl shopping expedition with Gardner Campbell (strike that one off my ‘things to do before I die’ list) when he visited Vancouver… As a result, the … Continue reading

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Is murder, madness and mayhem the future of higher education?

Central Library Interior #2, originally uploaded by lightgazer. I’ve been following the Murder, Madness and Mayhem project with keen interest since its inception, but have held off on blogging about the efforts beyond my enthusiastic initial impressions. For one, the … Continue reading

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Hackety Hack (Don’t Talk Back)

Not only is WFMU my cultural touchstone, it’s my source of tech news too. Off the WFMU Blog is this intriguing reference to Why the Lucky Stiff: Great swaths of deepest geek Japan know him as a core contributor to … Continue reading

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Gardner Campbell this week in Van Rock City!

Ever since I first spoke with Gardner Campbell one fateful evening at an In-N-Out Burger he has been at the top of my wish-list for people to speak on my home campus. The wait is finally over: Emily Dickinson once … Continue reading

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Freeform fundraising on now…

I’ll try to refrain from selling you on the greatest station in the history of radio, who are currently in the process of the most riotous fundraising drive going… I won’t explain yet again how they model the transition from … Continue reading

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