Angola’s Wikipedia Pirates Are Exposing the Problems With Digital Colonialism | Motherboard Wikimedia and Facebook have given Angolans free access to their websites, but not to the rest of the internet. So, naturally, Angolans have started hiding pirated movies and music in Wikipedia articles and linking to them on closed Facebook groups, creating a totally […]
Photography – Week 119
No More Temptations
sudo nano /etc/hosts 0.0.0.0 http://facebook.com 0.0.0.0 http://www.facebook.com sudo dscacheutil -flushcache That chunk of code run sequentially (don’t cut/paste it all at once) in terminal on the Mac kills all access to Facebook. I did it because I was finding myself drawn back to wrestling with pigs. I’m not sure Bernard Shaw said it but I […]
Post Documents for Student Comments
Students writing short papers and posting them for comments from other students is a fairly common pattern among VCU faculty. It’s a nice entry point because it doesn’t require any radical rethinking but still starts to expand the audience for the work, has possibilities around peer review, and is a possible gateway to writing on […]
Pushing/Pulling Data – Thinking Computationally? Differently? #IndieEdTech?
This post is going to be a bit like my head- a jumbled mass of things that are interconnected in my head but may not make any sense to anyone else. But what else is a blog for but for getting a better idea of what’s in your own head? Blogging in General The group […]
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Photography – Week 118
Shifting out of IFTTT
Kin Lane mentioned that IFTTT, a service entirely built on APIs, doesn’t have an API. That bothered Kin and the more I thought about it it bothered me. So I figured I’d start disentangling myself from IFTTT. One of the things I did with IFTTT was to send out a Tweet any time I posted […]
Grabbing Flickr Photos
flickr photo shared by goosmurf under a Creative Commons ( BY ) license This one will be improving considerably in the near future but given I’ve just been talking to many interesting people about APIs, reclaiming various things, and Indie-Ed Tech1 I figured I’d get it out early and that’d force me to follow up. […]
Weekly Web Harvest (weekly)
Orthoprint, or How I Open-Sourced My Face | Amos Dudley tags: 3d printing teeth dentistry weekly Joe Freedman’s Amazing Cycloid Drawing Machine – YouTube tags: art engineering math make maker weekly An Infantryman Learns To Code — Inside DigitalOcean — Medium I wonder how often this opportunity is there but the person isn’t . . […]
Photography – Week 117
