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Digital Culture

More Tarheel Celebration pics

More pics from the madness on Franklin Street, this time from Fred.

And even MORE pics. I’m especially fond of this one (you crazy kids!). Via Justinsomnia.

EDIT: and yet even more pics. I love all of these! Makes me wish that I was still at SILS so that I could have taken part in the celebration.

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Personal

Wanna listen to me ramble for 1 1/2 hours?

Here’s my post from the MTSU IT Conference blog, announcing the audio download of my blog presentation. Listen at your own risk.

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I’ve normalized the audio of my blog presentation at MTSU, and uploaded it as an MP3, available here (WARNING: ~ 40 Meg MP3). It’s still too big for an MP3 (the OGG is only 17 megs) but I’m not sure what I should do to optimize it. Couple of quick notes on the audio:

After listening to it again, looks like some of the numbers I came up with were a bit off, and I thought I should correct them here:

  • Actual number of articles in wikipedia: 518000, which turns out to be just about 6 times the amount in Britannica, not 5 as I claimed.
  • Technorati lists, at the time of the presentation, 7.8 million blogs. I rounded up to 8 million during the talk…no harm there, I think.
  • I claimed that there were more than 45 languages represented in the Wikipedia. While technically correct, the number of active languages is over 90.

More corrections if I find them. Also available in Ogg Vorbis, for those that prefer that format.

EDIT: One of the blogs & wikis attendees used the blog that we created during the presentation to take notes on the presentation itself. How very meta!!

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Personal

Testing new look

I ask for your patience…I’ve been looking for a 3-column layout that I liked for awhile now, and I’m partial to this Journalized-Blue template. Going to take some work customizing it, but we’ll see how it goes.

EDIT: So…any thoughts? I’m going to be tweaking the colors for a bit, I think…not sure if I want to go back to the brighter orange/crimson look from long ago, or stick with the muted black/blue look I’ve got now. Reasons I changed:

  • I had been manually dealing with my links, and wanted to swap to the native WP link handler.
  • Wanted a mini-blog area where I could do Justin-like Neatlinks.
  • Wanted a better integration of Pages links.
  • 3 Columns gives me more room for experimenting with sidebar tools.
  • Can isolate metablog content, and link content in seperate bars.

Things I’d like: anyone out there know how I can get the content div to automagically size images to fit? Any thoughts on the new look? Better? Worse? Should I go back?

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Library Issues

Color me surprised

Walt Crawford has a blog! Welcome to the blogosphere, Walt…I’ve been a reader of Cites & Insights for some time now, and (like many, many others, evidently) asked you at one point about why you weren’t blogging. Now that you are, I look forward to adding you to my daily reading list.

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Digital Culture

Pics of the Champs

Paul Jones puts up some pictures from the Tarheels return to the Dean Dome after the win.

More on the aftermath of the win, found at Is That Legal and Greenespace.

Wish we were there!

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Digital Culture

This is so wrong.

Darth Maul M&MBoba M&M

Wrong, I tell you.

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Digital Culture

In Honor of the win…

After seeing Loren’s tribute to the Heels, I’ve decided to similarly attire my blog for a bit in Carolina Blue. I’ll go back to the old color scheme (or maybe a new one?) but for now, the blog is going blue.

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Personal

Followup on Tarheel Championship

Sean May

Just a few links from the morning after the tarheel win:

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Digital Culture

Help me, Blogosphere…

…you’re my only hope.

While I’m the mack-daddy of image formats (wanna know the dif between LZW compression, and GIF compression? Just ask), I am largely ignorant of the intricacies of audio manipulation. So I call to you, blogosphere: I have a WAV file of my blog presentation that I gave this morning, and I’d love to equalize the volume…it was recorded on a stationary mic, while I moved around. Thus, it fades sometimes, and I’d love to normalize the volume. Any open/free tools out there that anyone would recommend for VERY basic sorts of audio editing?

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Personal

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Heels win! Heels win!

NCAA CHAMPS

Here comes Carolina-lina
Here comes Carolina-lina
We hail from NCU
We’ve got the team to win it
We’ve got the spirit in it
We wear the colors white and blue
So it’s fight, fight, fight for Carolina
As Davie did in days of old
As we rally round the Well
Cheer that Tar Heel team like Hell
For the glory of NCU