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cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by Abby Lanes There are lots of things that are “on” the web (doh) but let me ask if you think of the things you do as being “of” the web. Bear with this perhaps semantic nitpicking or old fogey wishing for the good ole days of the simple times when it was the wild wild web west. I remember dreaming in HTML. The web is a fabric. You can just sit on the fabric or you can weave the fabric. If you think of the web as a living organism perhaps as trees you should want to do your part to nurture its growth, to preserve the root system, to keep the canopy vital. You don’t just go joy riding through in your ATV and toss cigarette butts and burger wrappers, you are part of the system. A few weeks back [...]

Ouch, can you feel the pain, of faculty, students, tired techies… The servers hosting the Blackboard Enterprise system 6 of our colleges share had some sort of “cataclysmic” failure of the SAN- the data storage. It has been down and out about 2 weeks before finals. Ouch. I am not directly involved with Blackboard in our system, but it did mean it is unavailable for a few days while scrambling goes on to notify students. get replacement hardware, and try and resurrect the databases. I know there are folks out there pulling all nighters to get the system back, but you can bet that some work or materials are going to be lost Judging from the emails flying around, folks on both the instructional and technical sides of the house are being understanding, creating work-arounds, but it may serve to create some ripples of distrust. Maybe it will be a [...]