http://sonar.umwblogs.org "Where there is power, or the appearance of power, there are always those who would go to any lengths to gain it." -James Farmer Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:44:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So, I don't even know if we're required to still maintain these blogs. Probably not, but I thought I would briefly mention what I have been cleaning up on the Farmer site at least for the benefit of my group. I added dates to the summaries of all the videos on ... http://sonar.umwblogs.org/2008/04/29/error-edits/ As I am sure other people in the James Farmer Group will reiterate, the theme at the beginning of this semester was copyright. I remember sitting down as a group after reading Lay Bare the Heart and talking about where to start gathering information. We wanted to do something incredibly ... http://sonar.umwblogs.org/2008/04/22/reflections-on-digital-history/ I agree with Laura and thought that our presentation yesterday for Student Creativity Day went really well. The best part of this is sharing it with other people, and I noticed while presenting that people seemed to really enjoy the mashup on the first page. I did a couple things yesterday ... http://sonar.umwblogs.org/2008/04/19/student-creativity-day/ Now that the internet seems to be back to its usual (slow) self on the UMW campus, Laura and I uploaded the rest of the videos that we worked on a week or two ago. You can now see them all on the Farmer Project Videos page. I'm kinda proud of ... http://sonar.umwblogs.org/2008/04/15/videos-page-updated/ Today I made some headway with the videos of James Farmer that we digitized from the UMW Archives. Andy Rush uploaded them to umwhistory.org on Friday and I have begun downloading them and re-uploading them to YouTube. The bust unveiling and the Senate Resolution are already on the videos page. The ... http://sonar.umwblogs.org/2008/04/14/farmer-videos/ So, in keeping with the assignment for this Tuesday, I visited the Perspectives Online page for May 2007 at the American Historical Association and prepared to react to two or three articles. I first want to talk about David Voelker's article called "Blogging for Your Students" because of how imminently important ... http://sonar.umwblogs.org/2008/04/06/perspectives-online-reactions/ Ladies and Gentlemen, the James Farmer Project website is now officially public with videos, images, quotes and more of Dr. James L. Farmer. http://sonar.umwblogs.org/2008/04/03/james-farmer-project/ Today I put one of the relatively painless but important finishing touches on our website: I published a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License for the Farmer Group's original content. Why do I say original content? That's a very important distinction, as I found out. There are only ... http://sonar.umwblogs.org/2008/03/30/creative-commons-licensing/ This is my first post this week, so I have to make this a longer one to cover everything that's going on right now. First, I'd like to point out a program that I found called Picasa. It's possible that other people already know about this, but before late last week, ... http://sonar.umwblogs.org/2008/03/27/digital-media-and-web-publishing/ Ladies and Gentlemen, I present you with the finished James Farmer Timeline (barring any unexpected developments or overall layout changes that probably won't occur). Some recent changes include: I cropped the header of Farmer some more and uploaded it separately to umwhistory.org. After I asked a few of my friends from outside class ... http://sonar.umwblogs.org/2008/03/19/farmer-timeline/