Category Archives: Audio & Video

Feelin’ Very Blue

Posted on December 2, 2011 by Andy Rush

So it took me a while to do this, but I finally took advantage of the Warner Bros. offer to “upgrade” (still love that term!) my HD-DVDs to Blu-ray discs. Just in case anyone forgets the story. When “High Definition” … Continue reading →

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Bringing up a Memory

Posted on November 1, 2011 by Andy Rush

Thanks to my good buddy and DTLT’s “big toe” Jim Groom, I finally found a long lost video that has been haunting me for about 22 years. You see back in the late 80′s I used to work at a … Continue reading →

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There’s Nothing I Like More Than Experimenting

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Andy Rush

Right. So I am experimenting with Storify. What is here is great. I can add tweets from my friends (my timeline), tweets that I posted (my tweets), my favorite tweets (Fav) of from a specific user or list (User/list). Cool. … Continue reading →

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Dr. Oblivion, We Miss You!

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Andy Rush
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The Kit

Posted on April 7, 2011 by Andy Rush

There’s a bit of history surrounding “The Kit”. It all started with a presidential initiative back in 2006. We worked with a company to provide live streaming of lectures, and “boxes” that included all of the hardware needed to accomplish … Continue reading →

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It’s a Glif

Posted on February 8, 2011 by Andy Rush

I got my Glif last week and haven’t used it yet, but I’m still excited about it. After I received it, I subsequently listened to three podcasts that mentioned what a great product it was. It’s nice to have affirmation … Continue reading →

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Visions of Students Today

Posted on January 21, 2011 by Andy Rush

I’m getting back on my feet after a busy live-streaming week, and a bit of a hiatus from posting in this space. Anyway, here’s a quick post about an interesting follow-up to a great video from Michael Wesch’s Digital Ethnography … Continue reading →

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The Not Ready for Prime Time HTML5 Players

Posted on October 12, 2010 by Andy Rush

HTML5 video is taking over the world! It’s just that the world isn’t ready for it yet. Flash has powered both good and bad websites for years now, but video publishing has been democratized by the ability of anyone to … Continue reading →

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Super Happy Fun YouTube Downloader

Posted on September 14, 2010 by Andy Rush

A while ago I mentioned a cool program that could download and convert YouTube videos. It was a Mac only program called Evom. I lamented that I wished there was an easy program for Windows that could do what Evom … Continue reading →

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Evom. Is it Mov(i)e backwards?

Posted on August 25, 2010 by Andy Rush

Flickr photo by ShellyS Welcome to the new school year. I’m still shaking my head about where the summer went. I’m also still grinding gears from vacation last week, but despite those issues, I’m very excited about 2010/11 at UMW. … Continue reading →

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