Posts by: benherenow
We are beginning to crack at the SEO aspects of our new system. The rename of the distance.education to community.education sub-domain seems to have knocked our site down in the Google page rank scheme of things. We will need to do some heavy lifting to get it back in place.
The issue of streaming live events and presentations in the UF COE has come up qiute a few times in recent months. It follows that the contributions of our faculty, staff, and students could serve a much broader audience than those lucky few who are able to participate “in the flesh.” With this in mind, [...]
In a recent holiday-weekend-comp-time fiesta, UF IT pros launched a new site for the Bob Graham Center in Pugh Hall. The Center will offer streaming lectures and other media related to social service and political issues in the state.
Though it still lacks content, the Drupal theme it runs on looks pretty slick. [...]
In case you haven’t heard, there is a new Radiohead album coming out next week. Wait, let me repeat that: THERE IS A NEW RADIOHEAD ALBUM COMING OUT NEXT WEEK!! HOLY MONKEY FARTS!
As you also probably heard, ol’ Thom and Co. have finally accumulated enough hard currency and [...]
I caught a pretty interesting segment on the News Hour with Jim Lehrer. Peep it here. Aside from the satisfaction I glean from actually watching a news program without all the requisite bells and whistles (i.e., text scrolling in three directions, four simultaneous video panes, and a screaming Bill O’Reilly), Lehrer’s correspondents [...]
I’ll first say I haven’t written a music review/critique in a long time. At one point in time I was convinced I could make a career of borrowing from Lester Bangs. Eventually, however, reality set in and I realized I don’t have anything close to Bangs’s tolerance for [...]
So here I am, feeling down and hoping to exorcise some emotional/intellectual demons on my slice of Blogistan.
This week has been one of the ugliest weeks of news I can remember. In one week we have had several horrible events and I just want it to be known that I am paying attention. For [...]
While perusing the recent C-Net stories I ran across a photo story of the first distribution of $100 laptops to children in Nigeria for the One Laptop Per Child initiative. It hadn’t really occurred to me what the design of such a machine would entail, let alone the interface design for kids [...]
Well, after about a 6 weeks of work, I finally was able to get a rough cut together of my little video, ‘Information: the new Ritalin.’ It took quite a bit of post-production wrangling to get it in to a watchable state. But I am happy with the way things eventually turned out.
I’m still [...]
A few days ago I finished production on the video I have been working on. I plunged headlong into the post-production phase on Wednesday. It’s definitely bringing back some memories. I’m really excited about digging in with a digital razor.
Thus far I have encountered the requisite issues inherent in using cracked software to accomplish [...]
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