The Internet Archive has over 90 employees in the United States, but they reside in 17 different states and even more counties. While distributed workforces are becoming common, it has become so painful to deal with the federal, state, and … Continue reading
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One of the goals of a new World Wide Web: the Decentralized Web was to help people make money by publishing on the web. There are approaches to this such as Coil, but the vision in the paper has not … Continue reading
Imagining the Internet: Explaining our Digital Transition was designed as a google doc, so that is the best way to view it. Imagining the Internet: Explaining our Digital Transition A digital wave is upon us, changing our lives, our occupations, … Continue reading
I think this could be a 1 day exploration at least to figure out if it will work, but it is beyond my python ability. Idea: OCR the labels of our 78rpm records, then take an image of a new … Continue reading
The Internet Archive set up a Mastodon instance, and I created an account on it. Feels like a fresh new day. @brewsterkahle@mastodon.archive.org Mastodon
One of my quarantine projects started last summer when my dad brought over a gigantic box of family photos. I had never really thought about what happened to photos that we printed that didn’t make it into the albums. As it turned out, my dad threw all of them into a box. Who knew? With […]
I’m continuing a last minute blog de force by continuing to document some odds and ends of 2020 that haven’t hit the dot com quite yet. This one harkens back to June, which might as well been a decade ago at this point. For the past two years I’ve taught in Arezzo, Italy during the […]
Since 2018, I’ve had the honor of participating as a faculty member in the Gaylord College study abroad program to Arezzo, Italy. Of course, the COVID-19 pandemic impacted Italy early and severely. As a matter of fact, one of the first “calls” made at the University of Oklahoma was bringing home our students who were […]
I’ve been eagerly waiting to write this post for quite some time now. On October 1, our department was approved to move the majority of our employees to a flexible and/or remote work schedule. Even more exciting, we have five open positions. We have one listing posted for a course developer and four (!) spots for […]
I thought it would be fun to write an anthology to how my guitar pedalboard has adapted over the years. For the past decade, I’ve been mostly playing in modern worship groups, which is style that evolved to heavily rely on guitar pedals. It’s hard to say historically where this started, but it’s hard to […]