Archive for the ‘Meta’ Category
Tuesday, November 8th, 2022
This site is now operating a plug-in that should integrate it with the #ActivityPub universe (the protocol used by Mastodon and other Fediverse tools). So this post should show up for those who choose to subscribe to us on #Mastodon, or who search for the hashtags #embedded in it.
Once I ...
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Thursday, February 7th, 2019
We had the memorial service for my mother today - she died Monday, and the Irish tradition is to have a short few days of funereal rituals prior to the burial. In Mom's case - always the non-conformist - she asked for a non-religious service and a cremation, so the ...
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Saturday, February 4th, 2012
I've recently started playing around with Storify. In the piece embedded below, I'm gathering together various different snippets concerning the interplay of copyright and creativity.
http://storify.com/funferal/copyright-and-creativity
Posted in Computing Technology, Intellectual property issues, International law and structures, Media regulation, Meta, Online communication, Society and culture | No Comments »
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
I'm not heading to the NCA meeting myself, but some friends have been asking about ways to make it easier to find sessions of interest. I therefore offer this entry as a way for people to note and track such sessions. I hope that many of my ICR/U Illinois colleagues ...
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Tuesday, July 29th, 2008
I had planned to blog more from GRC, but my airport card stopped working on Friday, which was somewhat of an annoyance. I was pleased that my session on podcasting was reasonably successful - we didn't get into discussing much of the more arcane aspects of adopting podcasting for community ...
Posted in Alternative Media, Citizenship, migration, race, and ethnicity, Digital Audio, Freedom of the press, International Affairs, Media regulation, Meta, Online communication, Personal, Political activism, Radio | 1 Comment »
Saturday, January 26th, 2008
I've recently started using Twitter for a number of different radio shows I'm involved with. For those who are interested, you can now follow A Critical Ear and Media Matters show updates via Twitter. There's also my personal Twitter stream, which is somewhat more established (though still rather eclectic in ...
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Monday, October 15th, 2007
I'm heading to Vancouver on Wednesday, to attend the annual conference of the AoIR. Hopefully I'll be able to take the time to catch up on my posting - as well, of course, as meeting with various colleagues and friends.
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Tuesday, July 24th, 2007
Well, it's certainly been a while, but I'm back. After deciding on a short hiatus while I worked on becoming ABD, I found that something had been corrupted somewhere, and new posts no longer showed up on the home page. No mind, I'd already agreed a server migration with a ...
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Tuesday, August 9th, 2005
Ireland-GlandoreCoCork-DrombergStoneCircleOriginally uploaded by nznomad.I've just started seriously exploring Flickr in the last few days - I know, I know, so behind the curve on this one - and I've found it fascinating on many levels. So well designed, both in usability and the features available.I'm blogging this from ...
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Wednesday, June 29th, 2005
A minor landmark - my post earlier today about community radio licensing was the thousandth to be added to funferal. I think a small number have been removed over time, for various reasons, but with the flurry of news items today we're definitely over the thousand mark now. Thanks to ...
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