Category: Domain of One’s Own
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Self-platforming, DoOO, and academic workflows
Platform: digital infrastructure that positions itself between users and acts as the ground upon which their activities occur. This positioning, therefore, gives platforms privileged access to record and analyze the activities of users and between users. [Srnicek, N. (2017). Platform capitalism. Cambridge, UK ; Polity.] Self-platforming: personally hosting one or multiple free/libre, open, web-based applications as an…
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I blew it at THATCamp & it knocked me off my own web
Four years ago, I submitted a session proposal to a local THATCamp held at Lehigh University. I had grown pretty enamored in 2012-2013 of Linode’s StackScripts and I was eager to talk with others about automated installation scripts for server ‘stacks’. I knew they could be adapted and shared with other education technologists and librarians. I’d seen it…