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  • News & Media - Mass Comm Class Experiment

    News anfd Media... [...]
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    Posted: October 05, 2009, 9:15am EDT

  • 5 Funny Ameriquest Videos

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    Posted: October 02, 2009, 3:22pm EDT

  • Live Coverage - Belmont vs Lipscomb Volleyball

    Belmont vs Lipscomb Volleyball... [...]
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    Posted: September 08, 2009, 6:11pm EDT

  • Belmont vs SEMO Volleyball - Live Blogging

    Belmont Invitational - Belmont vs SEMO - Volleyball... [...]
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    Posted: September 04, 2009, 4:43pm EDT

  • CoverItLive - Belmont Invitational Volleyball Tourney

    Belmont Volleyball Invitational... [...]
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    Posted: September 04, 2009, 3:17pm EDT

  • "Course Content Delivery" - Time for a new direction

    Dr. Trent Batson writes Not Your Parents' 'Course Content Delivery' in today's edition of Campus Technology. Dr. Batson makes a great case for re-examining what most colleges and universities do in the way of online coursework. From my personal perspective: Online courses (and online components of courses) evolved as a' [...]
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    Posted: September 03, 2009, 7:08am EDT

  • Students - "Guppies in an Ocean Full of Sharks"

    It should be no surprise that I am an advocate for appropriate use of technology in learning communities. Over the last several years (with the explosion of easy-to-start-up social networking tools) I have witnessed a change in attitude within the teaching profession to embrace more of these gadgets. Resistance to [...]
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    Posted: September 02, 2009, 9:18am EDT

  • CoverItLive Volleyball - Belmont vs Western Kentucky

    Belmont vs Western Kentucky - Volleyball... [...]
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    Posted: September 01, 2009, 6:00pm EDT

  • Making the List

    This morning I received an email letting me know that Chasing the Dragon's Tale is included on the list of 100 Best Blogs and Websites for Innovative Academics. I am flattered (even at #82) and note numerous other education blogs that I hold in esteem. Thanks to the folks at [...]
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    Posted: September 01, 2009, 10:16am EDT

  • Teacher or Educator?

    The video asks, are you a teacher or an educator? First of all, presenting this in video form gets my attention...someone did a significant amount of work to produce a thought-provoking piece and I sincerely appreciate that effort. I am more than a little concerned that the video implies tha [...]
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    Posted: September 01, 2009, 8:08am EDT

  • Erasing the Past - Lanier High (Macon, GA) Demolition

    I attended Lanier Senior High School for Boys in Macon, GA and was a junior the year that the main building was destroyed in an arson fire. There are lot of great memories of that dysfunctional place that are a real part of me: band, required ROTC, one incredible Foreign [...]
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    Posted: July 10, 2009, 4:00pm EDT

  • If I am Sick, I go to My Insurance Company

    I am pondering a conversation with a doctor/friend (unnamed) about the business of medical professional practice...she wants desparately to deliver good health care to her patients, but unfortunately doesn't work for her patients. She works for several insurance companies. It is true:She can prescribe a medication that she feels best' [...]
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    Posted: June 09, 2009, 6:07am EDT

  • Social Media and Networking "Collectors"

    There is an interesting subculture among social media and online networking sites that warrants exploration. If you are a member of sites like Twitter, LinkedIn, Ecademy, or Facebook you probably have encountered some of the characters in the subculture. Until a better descriptor evolves, I will call the group "The" [...]
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    Posted: April 12, 2009, 10:06am EDT

  • Coverage of the Social Media Panel at Belmont University

      Great questions and well conceived answers were the order of the evening for Belmont University's panel discussion, Facebook to Twitter: Rights, Rules and Realities. This YouTube video of the late evening news package is the work of WKRN News 2's Tiani Jones. The actual video coverage of the panel [...]
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    Posted: March 05, 2009, 6:45am EST

  • Social Media Panel to Discuss Rights, Rules, and Responsibilities

    We are convinced that Facebook isn't finished with its efforts to revise the Terms of Service...and the "From Facebook to Twitter: Rules, Rights and Realities of Social Networks" panel discussion Monday, March 2, 2009 at 7:00PM will probably raise more questions than can be answered in an hour...but we would' [...]
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    Posted: February 27, 2009, 7:00am EST

  • Alumni Art Exhibit - Homecoming 2009

      If you happen to be anywhere near Belmont University's campus this week, be sure to stop by the Leu Center for the Visual Arts (the Art Department) and walk through the "Art from Anywhere" exhibit. This first time show for university alumni is part of Belmont's 2009 Homecoming week. [...]
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    Posted: February 25, 2009, 3:36pm EST

  • Shamed back into Blogging

    It had to happen sooner or later. One of my fan club (of four) asked when I would start blogging again. I have no excuse. There is much going on and I need to jump in an play with the social media tools that we are experimenting with in the [...]
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    Posted: February 19, 2009, 7:06pm EST

  • It is just Tennessee Politics...

    ...but shame on both Tennessee political parties. Here are the facts: 50 Tennessee House Republicans* voted for a Republican candidate to become Speaker of the House. 49 Tennessee House Democrats voted for a Republican candidate to become Speaker of the House. Not surprising from the above two facts, a Tennessee [...]
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    Posted: January 14, 2009, 10:00am EST

  • Blog 'Life Line' for Study Abroad Classes

    A Visual Sociology class from Belmont University, lead by Dr. Andi Stepnick left Nashville right after Christmas to spend several days touring and studying in India. As part of that experience the group is blogging: Visual Sociology in India. I have been on several overseas trips and strongly support the [...]
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    Posted: December 31, 2008, 12:32am EST

  • NaNoWriMo Non-Winner

    To be classified as a Winner in the National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), each writer must complete a minimum of 50,000 words from the start of November to the end of the month. Before my real life over ran my virtual novel writing life, I managed 41,820 words and then [...]
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    Posted: December 06, 2008, 5:11am EST

  • Where McCain and Obama Stand on Technology Issues

    Jason Hiner writes in TechRepublic what I believe to be a fair assessment of the differences between Senator John McCain and Senator Barack Obama on technolgy issues. "From Net Neutrality to H1B Visas to data privacy and other economic policy issues, the next U.S. President will influence many important developments [...]
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    Posted: November 03, 2008, 8:46am EST

  • NaNoWriMo Begins

    Well, why not? What is 50,000 words among friends? My academic writing has come to a close, the presidential debate insanity has faded over the horizon, and November just seems to be sufficiently hectic that I need (yet) another distraction...right? Sooooo, my early morning coffee sipping routine will be filled [...]
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    Posted: November 02, 2008, 5:06am EST

  • Twitter Rocks - Belmont University

    Get Flash to see this player. var so = new SWFObject("/dragonstale/archives/mediaplayer.swf","mpl",320,260,8); so.addParam("bgcolor","#"); so.addParam("allowFullScreen","false"); so.addVariable("file","rtmp://vod.uvault.com/149847-fv-01"); so.addVariable("id","debate_twitter"); so.addVariable("flashvars","&width=320&height=260&displaywidth=320&displayheight=240&shuffle=false&image=http://forum.belmont.edu/dragonstale/archives/twitter_rocks.jpg"); so.addParam("menu","false"); so.write("mediaplayer"); A two-man crew from C-SPAN produced live, streaming video from the Media Filing Center on Belmont University's campus as part of their coverage of the 2008 Town Hall Presidential Debate. A considerable' [...]
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    Posted: October 09, 2008, 10:46am EDT

  • Presidential Candidates - Digital Native vs Digital Imigrant

    Every day that the presidential campaigns stumble along, it becomes clearer to me that we're not likely to hear/see substantive debate on national issues. The internet may become THE place where positions and details see daylight and, as long as the mainstream media continues to binge on sound bites, that [...]
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    Posted: September 07, 2008, 7:27am EDT

  • Chasing New Tales - Handmade Communities

    Yesterday, my family spent a delightful afternoon with Tom Turnbull in his Nashville studio. Tom is an amazing ceramic artist and entrepreneur and his hospitality proved to be on the same high level as that of his work. During Tom's chat with my son, he encouraged Matt to take some [...]
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    Posted: July 13, 2008, 6:41am EDT

  • They are locking me up...

    It's true! I am about to be escorted from campus (with a number of other Belmont employees) and will be asked to raise bail money. If you can help, go here (please). I do not look great in black and white stripes...no body wants that, really!... [...]
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    Posted: June 25, 2008, 10:41am EDT

  • Using Your Summer Vacation

    There is some interesting commentary floating around the blogosphere regarding connected/disconnected vacations. This one, directed more at students, suggests that summer is a great time for, "From exploring a potential career field through volunteering or interning, to making valuable contacts, the more meaningful your summer experiences, 'the more confident you’ll [...]
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    Posted: June 05, 2008, 6:30am EDT

  • Extinct Disconnected Vacation

    We are encouraged to take the alloted days of vacation provided in the terms of our employment. I support that idea but admit that I (along with many other IT professionals) prefer to define vacation as a period of time when being connected to the office is defined by me [...]
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    Posted: June 03, 2008, 4:20pm EDT

  • 10 Things the Next President Should Do About Information Technology

    For the most part, my posts here are apolitical...or completely void of politics. It is the romantic in me who holds out for a technically savvy federal administration. From a close friend who has dealt with the systems in use by federal regulating agencies for 15+years, the following list is [...]
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    Posted: June 03, 2008, 7:35am EDT

  • Andersonville - revisited after 40+ years

    Andersonville must have made an impression on the 10 year-old boy who walked among the headstones in 1960 searching for interesting names, dates, and places. He (that would be me, he) returned to the small town in southwest Georgia last week to find one specific grave marker. The staff at [...]
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    Posted: May 26, 2008, 9:00am EDT

  • Belmont Students Prepare for Union University Trip

    There was a good turnout of Belmont students for the training session lead by Christy Ridings, University Ministries. The images of the destruction on Union's campus made for a quiet room. Volunteers on this trip will be doing manual labor. The team departed early this morning for Jackson and should [...]
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    Posted: February 16, 2008, 8:35am EST

  • Floor Score and Seven Hours Ago...

    It was a fun night of well played basketball here at Belmont. I am pretty well fried from 6 hours in the video controll booth...but this image certainly eases the aches and pains. Congratulations to Belmont's men on a great win over Jacksonville University. Attention Lipscomb...this group is headed your [...]
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    Posted: February 08, 2008, 7:15am EST

  • Non-traditional Media Responses in Crisis Situations

    Tuesday night while the storms in west Tennessee were hammering Union University, IT people (that would be me) were watching another large storm cell take aim at Belmont's area of Nashville. Fortunately, Belmont was spared the disaster and a live run on a disaster response plan. Sometime around 7:00PM, Union's [...]
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    Posted: February 07, 2008, 10:20am EST

  • Sports Whine with a Serving of Statistics

    I have probably whined before about the lack of local television coverage for local college teams (excluding Vanderbilt, of course). Last evening's news was all about Vandy's losing streak on the road, the Preds Toootoo extension, PacMan getting a break in court, plus some predictable hype over the upcoming Super [...]
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    Posted: February 01, 2008, 8:34am EST

  • Caps Lock Off - Better Beat Exceptional Rivals Every Day

    I didn't make it to the end of the game before cold medications sent me to inspect the backs of my eyelids...but I have read the aftermath of stories from the pundits and armchair quarterbacks (and I am smiling). Two fine football teams hit the field last night in what [...]
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    Posted: January 08, 2008, 6:30am EST

  • Blog Maintenance Rant Time or..."Fruitflies live longer than most blogs"

    Whew! In the name of keeping Belmont University blogs open for freely exchanged ideas/discussion, we accumulated roughly 20,000 spam comments and trackbacks... mostly on blogs that are what I shall politely call dormant. Today was the day for housekeeping...*bleh*. Life-cycle of a blog Allow me to walk around this dormant [...]
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    Posted: January 04, 2008, 3:38pm EST

  • Cold!

    Not to complain, but it is quite cold here in Nashville and on the campus of Belmont University. Most students and faculty are still in Christmas hibernation mode.... and the few staff members rattling around campus seem to be scrambling to get things done before next week's surge of students [...]
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    Posted: January 03, 2008, 2:30pm EST

  • Heartvalve Too

    Heartvalve Too 1/365 Originally uploaded by Paul Chenoweth Posting from Flickr for the first time using the post to blog feature. Time off without hours reading and doing research have been (temporarily) replaced with some fun activity...in this case a heavy dose of movie watching combined with a bit of [...]
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    Posted: January 02, 2008, 9:43pm EST

  • Happy New Year!

    For the first time in perhaps 10 years, I actually sat up late enough to watch the clock tick past midnight on New Year's Eve. The central time zone replay of Dave Clark (still) doing his thing was something I had nearly forgotten. Seeing the old master of the new [...]
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    Posted: January 01, 2008, 7:25am EST

  • New to NetFlix

    A year's subscription to NetFlix came to the bruingeekdom via one of Santa's favorite helpers. Deb and I have avoided NetFlix since we already possess a significant movie collection...but now, since the resistance is futile and there are 30+ movies in the que, movies will be arriving by mail and [...]
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    Posted: December 27, 2007, 7:30am EST

  • Playing for Pizza

    Full disclosure: I am a completely biased John Grisham fan. Somehow, I missed the 2007 release of Playing for Pizza. During one of those husbandly-waiting periods common to shopping this time of year, I meandered through the book section of one of the big-box stores and the small volume mysteriously [...]
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    Posted: December 24, 2007, 5:30am EST

  • Last Minute Shopping

    It is not exactly last minute, but we're only a couple of days from Christmas and I would prefer to spend the real last minutes doing something besides panic shopping. The last couple of things on my shopping list will take me to a couple of the dreaded big-box stores...places [...]
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    Posted: December 22, 2007, 7:45am EST

  • Eric is Free and Out of Nicaragua

    Eric Volz is out of Nicaragua. I heard the news from a friend while eating dinner this evening. Thankful seems such an understatement for how I feel knowing that Eric will be back on US soil soon. Dane Anthony, Eric's dad, resigned from his position at Belmont University to commit [...]
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    Posted: December 22, 2007, 11:09pm EST

  • Time Off

    Finally. A few days off to celebrate Christmas with family and friends. It is just nice to be home, even if I am still sitting in front of a computer screen from time-to-time. Just in case I forget. My warmest Christmas wishes go to each of you!... [...]
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    Posted: December 21, 2007, 12:37pm EST

  • Eric Volz - Back in Prison, Again

    We are witnessing a family's frustrations with the Nicaraguan judicial system. After spending several weeks in a prison hospital and having his conviction overturned (after 9 months of delay), one would think that Eric Volz would be well on his way to freedom. MSNBC has confirmed that Eric has been [...]
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    Posted: December 21, 2007, 12:32pm EST

  • Volz Case - 'No Immediate Concern' - US State Department

    Obviously, I have been tracking the news on the case of Eric Volz. It has been on my heart and mind all day. Today's press briefing by Deputy Spokesman, Tom Casey, mentions the 2-3 day delay as nothing out of the ordinary in the Nicaraguan Judicial System...and labels the case [...]
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    Posted: December 18, 2007, 4:21pm EST

  • MSNBC - Today Show on Eric Volz

    There is video from the Today Show featuring Maggie Anthony here. No news of Eric's release, yet.... [...]
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    Posted: December 18, 2007, 3:00pm EST

  • Hopeful, Prayerful - Get Eric Volz Home Safely

    CNN reports this morning that Eric Volz " was transferred Monday from a Managua jail to a police hospital". I hope that means that he is in a better environment and is receiving better care. More than that, I pray that he is out of that hospital and is on [...]
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    Posted: December 18, 2007, 9:00am EST

  • Eric Volz Release Announced

    USA Today just published a news story on the release of Eric Volz by order of a Nicaraguan appeals court. There are few details. I am hoping the story is true and that Eric is making his way safely to US soil. HT: Nashville is Talking... [...]
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    Posted: December 17, 2007, 3:20pm EST

  • Graduation in the Belmont Family

    We do our share of talking about family here at Belmont (and rightly so)...this time, I speak literally of the Belmont family pictured here. From left-to-right Kacy (daughter), Chris (son-in-law), me, Matt (son), and Deb (wife). Of the five, one has pretty well made a lifetime career working in various [...]
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    Posted: December 17, 2007, 6:00am EST

  • The Grinch Who Steals My Email Subject

    Begin Rant: This is me being a grumpy old man, I suppose. Of the 100 or so daily emails that fill my Inbox, most include a subject line that includes words that are relative to the content of the email. Oddly enough (duh), that gives me some indication of what [...]
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    Posted: December 13, 2007, 10:28am EST

  • Microsoft Bashing

    The people over at eweek.com have published their Stupid Technology Tricks 2007. It is their annual top 10 list of "IT products, technologies and decisions that stood out for the wrong reasons". Call it piling on if you wish, but seeing Microsoft own three of the ten made me smile.... [...]
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    Posted: December 12, 2007, 11:00am EST

  • Blogs at Belmont - Mixed Success Stories

    Belmont University owes much to the father-of-Belmont-blogs, Bill Hobbs. Bill introduced the medium here and launched the core set of blogs that has now grown to a count of 30+...that includes one of the nation's most successful business blogs, The Entrepreneurial Mind. Bill is off herding elephants (or something *grin*) [...]
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    Posted: December 12, 2007, 7:00am EST

  • Registering for events online

    At any time throughout the active academic calendar at Belmont, there are event registrations in progress. Many are simply conveniences for quickly gathering and managing the 50-800 people for an event. For the last several years, our friends at SiteMason.com have provided us the tools needed to accomplish online registrations [...]
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    Posted: December 11, 2007, 9:59am EST

  • Fun with Validation

    One of the joys of creating new templates and web pages is the instant gratification that comes with viewing a new gem in a browser (or multiple browsers) for the first time. It is not unlike seeing a new creature born...and not unlike the parent of a new creature, one [...]
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    Posted: December 11, 2007, 6:15am EST

  • A Small Course Correction

    Life as a mid-sized (the school, not me), university web developer often means wearing multiple hats: code-writer, advocate, entrepreneur, researcher, student, politician, video-editor, trainer, artist, historian, writer, repairman, educator, and baby-sitter. There are soap opera level dramatics that are dying to be told beneath any one of those hats. For [...]
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    Posted: December 10, 2007, 9:24am EST

  • Eric Volz begins 2nd year in Nicaraguan prison

    This via last week's update from friendsofericvolz.com:Today, Friday, November 23, marks the beginning of a 2nd year of the injustice of Eric’s illegal conviction; the injustice of Eric's illegal imprisonment, the injustice of the Appellate Court in their nearly 9 month delay in ruling past what the law declares, and [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2007, 8:09am EST

  • Eric Volz begins 2nd year in Nicaraguan prison

    This via last week's update from friendsofericvolz.com: Today, Friday, November 23, marks the beginning of a 2nd year of the injustice of Eric’s illegal conviction; the injustice of Eric's illegal imprisonment, the injustice of the Appellate Court in their nearly 9 month delay in ruling past what the law declares, [...]
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    Posted: November 26, 2007, 8:09am EST

  • Too Busy with the Chase

    It seems like I have committed a lot of time to blog support and training for a bunch of people in recent months. Chasing the Dragon's Tale has suffered a posting drought as a result. I am taking a minute or two for myself this morning...the blogs will survive nicely [...]
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    Posted: October 30, 2007, 9:30am EDT

  • Eric Volz - approaching day 300 in Nicauraguan prison

    Eric Volz remains imprisoned, awaiting a decision from an appellate court regarding his fate. The news from the Friends of Eric Volz web site is not encouraging:A couple of weeks ago, Eric had his first asthma attack in 10 years. Apparently it was pretty intense and the prison doctor prescribed [...]
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    Posted: September 10, 2007, 9:52am EDT

  • Silver Surfers - Maybe We Just Read Slower

    The Daily Mail (UK) offers up Silver surfers beat the young as Web wizards:So-called "silver surfers" dedicate an average of 42 hours a month to the World Wide Web, compared with 37.9 hours among 18 to 24-year-olds.Wow! Fourty-two hours a MONTH! That's over an hour (average) each day. Pardon my [...]
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    Posted: September 08, 2007, 7:49am EDT

  • Ethnoblogology - Studying the people who post

    On a daily basis I read articles that have something to say about blogs and bloggers. If you are reading this, you have probably read some of the same things: articles that question/compare journalists to bloggers, articles on mining the opinions from blogs in market research, and endless pundit political [...]
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    Posted: September 03, 2007, 2:00pm EDT

  • Finally. A Software Format for My Generation

    The people over at go.funpic.hu posted the image on the left. A close Nashville geek friend alerted me via email (thanks, Bob). If ever an image defined "generational technology gap", I believe this one comes closer than anything I have ever seen. This one will show up in a presentation [...]
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    Posted: August 24, 2007, 6:15am EDT

  • Good Spirit in Faculty Video Workshop

    Some 30-40 new (and used) faculty members endured my three hour video workshop here at Belmont University yesterday. We had a great time even when presentation technology offered up a speed bump or two during the video capture phase. We looked at what our students are already doing on youtube.com [...]
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    Posted: August 16, 2007, 3:00pm EDT

  • Blog Video Delivery Demonstration in Progrsss

    Over the next 48 hours or so, I will be demonstrating how video can be added to a blog and other electronic delivery systems. The videos are just examples and may have little meaningful content, so just ignore them. Some may disappear just as fast as they are published, others [...]
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    Posted: August 14, 2007, 5:02am EDT

  • Thanks AT&T, but no thanks

    I have been an AT&T and/or Bell South and/or South Central Bell customer (with the same phone number) for 33+ years. In all of those years, the contacts from the company generally encouraged me to add-on a new service or to combine my services into some neat package that inevitably [...]
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    Posted: June 25, 2007, 10:39am EDT

  • It is OK to be nice on a blog...

    Just in case you are interested or want a way to see how your blog might be rated:Conversely, this may be an indicator of how dull my content is to most people...as in Good Grief that's boring! *sigh*... [...]
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    Posted: June 25, 2007, 10:30am EDT

  • All Blogs Will Die by 2018

    Blame that prediction on a quip by Bruce Sterling at this year's South-by-Southwest conference. It is a translation of:"I don't think there will be that many around in 10 years"As it turns out, what Bruce was really saying is that the trendiness of blogs will have faded even though the [...]
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    Posted: June 08, 2007, 10:25am EDT

  • Lost Boys - Found Art

    Yesterday evening's opening of The Lost Boys Center and Gallery on 4th Avenue here in Nashville could have slipped by me. It isn't something that I do nearly as often as I used to. This opening was different. I knew a little about the Lost Boys of Sudan from earlier [...]
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    Posted: June 07, 2007, 7:01am EDT

  • I'll have my Facebook Network call Your Blog...

    With less than a week behind us, the three Belmont University, overseas missions' blogs just passed the 1,000th (cumulative) visitor mark and have already accumulated 115+ comments. I am still tracking the referrals that are coming in from the Facebook Flyers that were launched immediately following the departure of two [...]
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    Posted: May 17, 2007, 8:57am EDT

  • From One Social Network to Another

    It is the time of year when students have scattered to anywhere else besides their own college campus. Belmont University is no different...it is just a few days past final exams and graduation and the campus is just about empty. Communication with students using any sort of official university channel [...]
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    Posted: May 14, 2007, 7:33am EDT

  • Eric Volz - Support Still Needed

    Yesterday's Active Christian Media article, Eric Volz Needs Our Prayers and Support to Continue, includes the following unconfirmed report:Yesterday I was informed in an email that Eric’s health is not doing well. He is sick right now possibly with parasites and/or ulcers. Eric still needs our prayers and letters of [...]
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    Posted: May 12, 2007, 6:52am EDT

  • Melinda Doolittle Comes Home to Belmont

    It was hot. It was wonderful. Indeed Belmont University, Melinda's alma mater, felt the love today. That girl can SING! Wow!!... [...]
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    Posted: May 11, 2007, 1:00pm EDT

  • Eric Volz - CNN Anderson Cooper 360 Tonight

    At 10PM E.T. (9PM Central) tonight, Anderson Cooper 360 will air an interview with Eric Volz from El Modelo, a Nicaraguan prison. The updates on the appeals process have slowed to a trickle. Perhaps this will help maintain visibility to the story.... [...]
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    Posted: May 04, 2007, 2:30pm EDT

  • Conversational Media Clashes with Traditional Media of Nicaragua

    Much of Central America is not well connected to the Internet and the associated mass of news and information available therein. I have been there several times and know from experience that technology may be a barrier to many but also feel that there is a growing desire of many [...]
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    Posted: April 30, 2007, 1:55pm EDT

  • Eric Volz - Appeals Delayed

    News from Nicaragua regarding the appeals process for Eric Volz has been a little sketchy. The Nicaraguan Newspaper, El Nuevo Diario, reports that the process may not take place for several weeks. From Page Two by Liestoppers, "According to El Nuevo, a preliminary review to determine whether the case is [...]
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    Posted: April 26, 2007, 9:00am EDT

  • Eric Volz Coverage on Nashville News This Morning

    Nashville television station, WKRN, aired a live interview with Maggie Anthony this morning. Maggie is Eric Volz's mom and resides in the Middle-Tennessee area. During the telephone interview, John Dwyer asked a number of questions regarding the stressful situation in Nicaragua. Maggie spoke of the challenge to be hopeful and [...]
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    Posted: April 24, 2007, 8:00am EDT

  • Eric Volz - National Attention, Nashville Ties

    Dateline NBC will air their story about Eric Volz tonight, April 22nd. The show airs in Nashville at 6:00PM on Channel 4, WSMV here in Nashville. Check your local listings for the time in your area. Keith Morrison's preview of the story, Is Eric Volz in Jail Because of Nicaraguan [...]
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    Posted: April 22, 2007, 7:00am EDT

  • Rachel Smith Day at Belmont University

    Belmont University President, Dr. Bob Fisher, declared today Rachel Smith Day. The picture pretty much says the rest...she is a lovely person and will undoubtedly make the rest of us proud to claim her. More photos from today's event here.... [...]
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    Posted: April 19, 2007, 4:10pm EDT

  • Free Eric Volz - Appeals Underway in Nicaragua

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