The First Round-Up of 1.1
by Brian Michael Foote
I feel so much pressure…
First off – there were a ton of blogs this week, you folks are blogging like crazy now. I get a little misty thinking back on the old days when there was, oh I don’t know, maybe 5 blog posts each week. Matt affectionately referred to that as our “wild-west” days and I have to say, I still miss the old wiki-wrangler blog layout. You just had to be there.
I’m tempted to talk about the news like normal but I’m not even sure I understand the news anymore. The front page of Bloomberg looked like something out of a William Gibson novel yesterday. I know DDoS attacks aren’t going to go impress anyone over at 2600 or where-ever the cool kids hang out now, but it’s weird seeing them all over the news lately. It’s doubly weird rooting for 4chan, you know, if you’re into it.
Speaking of techy internet stuff Valerie Futch over at the prolific Te(A)ch with Purpose blog did a little reflective blogging on the first day of this year’s CUNY IT Conference. I was disappointed I couldn’t be at Day 1 but I’m excited to be around for Day 2 at the Grad Center. Like Footenotes? Hate it? Love the Commons? Come talk to me! Almost everyone from the team will be there and we’re eager to meet our fellow Commonsers! Also, thanks for the ‘taking off’ shout-out, every time we roll out an upgrade it feels a little like someone waxed the floors and straighten all the pictures.
Since I mentioned 2600 up there that’s probably as good of a lead in as I could ask for to share this piece. A team from the the CUNY School of Professional Studies was honored by the group Random Hacks of Kindness, a huge event where the data set get to use their awesome powers for good. Congrats to the SPS team and thanks for sharing about this great event!
A new blog popped up since the last round-up. ‘Reading and Writing the Lives of Teachers‘ by Amanda Gulla @AmandaGulla over at Lehman. It’s an excellent inaugural post and we’re glad to have you on the Commons!
‘Appalachian Anthology’ posted this week about the peculiar circumstances surrounding Massey CEO Don Blankenship’s decision to retire. Blogs like this are why blogging can be such a vital thing. I don’t know much about mining or Appalachia but I’ve learned a ton since Ive been reading this blog. Having someone who’s passionate about it and has roots in the region makes for wonder and vivid reading. Thanks for posting!
To wrap it up here’s a link to our brief review of the changes that came along with our upgrade to Commons 1.1. At the bottom you’ll find links to follow-up blogs that go into detail on some of these changes and explain what we’re up to in subsequent upgrades. Hats off to Boone, Chris Stein, the team at Cast-Iron and everyone involved classin’ up the joint.
Till next week!
Comments
Just in case I don’t tell you this enough in private, Brian, I’ll tell it to you in public, too: your round-up posts are wonderful. Thanks so much for all that you’ve added to the site and for the real sense of community that you have helped foster here.
Awww thanks Matt.
This is what happens when we do an update – endorphins for everyone!
Well, except the Dev team, because those guys have knocked back so many RedBulls they’re somewhere else man…somewhere…beyond.
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