Tim Owens - Throw Out The Manual (Page 7)

Tim Owens

This is my last post.

Don't freak out. I wouldn't for a second think about stopping "blogging", after all it's in my job description. Seriously. Blogging, despite its awful name, is a critical way to connect with a network of peers beyond the physical, sharing ideas, promoting the work I do, and exploring the boundaries

Writing Collaborative Documentation with DokuWiki and GitHub

Writing Collaborative Documentation with DokuWiki and GitHub

I've found myself thinking quite a bit about collaborative documents and wikis recently. I wrote a bit a few months ago about my new love for GitHub and while I'd heard of people throwing out the idea of collaborative writing using GitHub I hadn't seen that actually done too well

3D Scanning Methods and Processes

3D Scanning Methods and Processes

It's always amazed me how certain technologies just seem to advance by leaps and bounds over the course of a year or two. I get to see this especially with technologies surrounding our makerspace where new products seem to appear on Kickstarter and tempt my wallet practically daily. I've been

Weekly Reading List 11/4/2013

*This weeks reading list is an attempt at automating some of the process via the tool I use for bookmarks, Evernote. It’s not perfect because it uses Evernote’s shared URL rather than the source, something I hope to fix if I can.*[The Internet of Things That Used

Weekly Reading List

So a few days ago Andy turned me on to Evernote. It's not my first time using it, I've tried several times in the past to find a workflow that made sense, but this time I had a problem in search of a tool. Specifically I've tried several bookmarking solutions

Building a Community from UMW Domains

Building a Community from UMW Domains

Martha Burtis and I have had a burst of energy in the past week developing on some ideas surrounding the Domain of One's Own project and I wanted to start to get some of it out there. It's amazing how one idea can lead to a discovery which can ignite

Rethinking Forum Software

Rethinking Forum Software

Some of my worst memories of poorly-designed online courses bring me back to the awful discussion boards of the standard LMS. The instructor, in a feeble attempt at building community with the tools they had, would ask you to go in and introduce yourself, which meant you had to pretend

The Weekend Radio Race

The Weekend Radio Race

A few weeks back I got an email from GNA saying she had thrown down the entry fee for ds106radio to be a part of the KCRW Weekend Radio Race. It would be 24 hours long, we'd get the topic at 10AM PST on Saturday, August 17 and have until

It's Not About the Launch

It's Not About the Launch

The past week has been a bit of a whirlwind as Jim and I revealed our plans for Reclaim Hosting with a semi-official launch date of August 15th. We've had responses from both public and private institutions, over 50 individuals from as close as George Mason University to as far

Reclaim Hosting

It's been an exciting past few days as Jim and I launched Reclaim Hosting and began building out the system to support the signups. We sat down today to talk about a bit more about it, including some of the software we're using, as well as talking more about the

A Distributed Domain of One's Own

A Distributed Domain of One's Own

The summer has been hot but quiet in Fredericksburg and I've had a lot of fun over the past few weeks working with Martha Burtis to get our new server up and running with the host of software we plan to use to roll out the Domain of One's Own

Redefining Reclaim Efforts

Redefining Reclaim Efforts

Over the past 2 years I've watched and later participated in the rhetoric of "reclaiming our digital identities in the web spaces we inhabit. Reclaim means a lot of things to a lot of people. At the end of last year I decided I wanted to start bringing more of

An Update on Reclaiming Efforts

An Update on Reclaiming Efforts

A few weeks ago when Google announced the discontinuation of Google Reader effective July 1st what began as a moderate approach to reclaiming things here and there that were important to me was sent into a tailspin. Maybe that seems dramatic but the Reader shutdown really hits home to me

I’ll see you at the movies.

“So on this day of reflection I say again, thank you for going on this journey with me. I’ll see you at the movies.” Roger Ebert's final words on his blog just 2 days before passing

Party Time!

Get ready

View of New Orleans from the hotel

View of New Orleans from the hotel

Oh my yes.

In line for Mothers @DrGarcia @haley_exe

In line for Mothers @DrGarcia @haley_exe

@DrGarcia Somehow only have one picture from yesterday. Will rectify

@DrGarcia Somehow only have one picture from yesterday. Will rectify

Unified Syndication of a Domain of One's Own

Unified Syndication of a Domain of One's Own

In my last post I outlined a bit of what our vision is for syndicating all of the work happening in disaggregate spaces through Domain of One's Own. When you use Wordpress Multisite it's pretty easy to get a unified feed of all the work that is happening since everything

Really March? Really?

Really March? Really?

Building a Syndication Framework for the Domain of One's Own

Building a Syndication Framework for the Domain of One's Own

I have to admit I feel a little bit like an amateur cook that has a lot of really fancy ingredients in front of him and no idea how to make them sing. I've been playing with a lot of different tools lately and they all seem very powerful in