Category: blogging
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Why Reclaim Cloud? – Utility Computing in a Liberal Arts Setting
Greetings! I have an honors student this year, —— ——, who is interested in scraping Twitter data for her honors thesis project. The best way to extract these data from Twitter is to use a free tool called T-CAT. The only hitch is that T-CAT needs to be installed on a server in order to…
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Portable Seed Swap
I love seed catalogs. During the darkest, coldest nights of winter I will flip through the pages and order my seeds while imagining armful after armful of tasty vegetables. I’ll pull on a cap and a second pair of socks while thinking ahead to chopping and canning and sweating through the steam-filled kitchen. When the…
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Fixin a plate on ds106radio
Cooking on air is nothing new for #ds106radio — and I mean that quite literally. @rowan_peter has been known to cook a meal beside a live microphone mixed atop an awesome playlist. Many DJs post photos of their cooking, baking, and spirit mixing as the playlists roll. And who can forget @RadioEUG and his KFC…
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Moving to a new community (part 4)
In my last post, I demonstrated how easy it is to install a community site from Reclaim Hosting’s template, and how to use the Gravity Form it comes with to start populating your community site with student, faculty, and staff work. I’ll return to Gravity Forms in a future post, and show how to modify…
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Moving to a new community (part 3)
In this post I’ll show how easy it is to install the Reclaim Hosting community site template. Then, I’ll demonstrate with a couple screenshots how simple it is to populate a community site with student and staff work. Getting an empty community site installed is done in a flash. But first, folks will need to…