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Sometimes They Come Back
The other day I got a comment on a post from 2007 about teaching Foucault’s Discipline and Punish. It’s over a decade old at this point, and it’s interesting to me because it marks a moment when I was...
View ArticleThe Life and Death of the Blog
On the heels of a transatlantic journey I sat down with Tim Owens to discuss the fate of academic blogging in the wake of Harvard University’s announcement of their shuttering their blogging system....
View ArticleBlogging at Scale with Google Sheets
When you go directly from several weeks of work travel into the beginning of the semester rush at Reclaim Hosting, the bava.blog necessarily gets neglected. But that changes now! Back on August 22nd...
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14 on Friday the 13th
Not one to break with tradition, I wanted to interrupt the radio silence on the bava over the past few weeks to say happy birthday to the best damn blog from Timbuktu to Portland, Maine, or Portland,...
View ArticleUtopian Tendencies Episode 5: the Utopian Rhetoric of Web 2.0
https://bavatuesdays.com/wp-content/audio/utopian_tendencies_5_utopian_rhetoric_web2.mp3 Trying to catch up on the Utopian Tendencies radio show Lauren Heywood and I have been producing the last couple...
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A Belated Happy Birthday to the bava
Here’s to 15 years on the bava, and all the irreparable damage it has caused me. Well, actually, I am a couple of weeks late. My blog anniversary is December 13th, but this December has flown by and I...
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@grantpotter @jimgroom needs to properly rebrand that old gaming system. pic.twitter.com/Ac5ZqPOX7M — Michael B Smith (@mbransons) February 26, 2015 Seems like just 100 posts ago I was writing about...
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bavaweekly 1-11-2022 -the Show Notes
My first bavaweekly stream of 2022 is in the can, and you can watch it here. It’s a bit of a comedy of errors with my dog, Duke, trying to get his bone out from under the green screen. So it goes with...
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The Blogsphere is Hot….with Edtech Angst
The above video has been the source of an ongoing joke at Reclaim Hosting for many years now. I’ve been carrying the blogging torch and this has been my referent point for a time when blogging was so...
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Every so often my blog hits a random milestone, and this one happened to come at the start of my 18th year of blogging, and the very end of 2022. Given that, I figured I would use it as an excuse to...
View ArticleAll Roads Lead Back to the Blog
Well, the only good thing about being away from the bava.blog for more than a month is the tried and true joy of blogging about not blogging. Or blogging about the will to blog. Or blogging about how...
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Arrival Afternoon in Downtown Inverness #OER23
I did something I haven’t done in a while, I actually posted images to Flickr I took within a few hours and write titles and descriptions, and even tagged them. I know, crazy, right? In many ways this...
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