{"id":390,"date":"2006-06-25T09:52:29","date_gmt":"2006-06-25T13:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/?p=390"},"modified":"2006-06-25T09:52:29","modified_gmt":"2006-06-25T13:52:29","slug":"ahoy-obadiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/ahoy-obadiah\/","title":{"rendered":"Ahoy, Obadiah!"},"content":{"rendered":"

A big shout-out here to Obadiah Tarzan Greenberg<\/a>, product manager at Webcast.Berkeley<\/a>. Obadiah’s just recently joined the blogosphere<\/a>, as I learned when his link to my blog appeared on my WordPress dashboard under “incoming links.” It’s delightful to be linked to, of course (more of what Brian Lamb<\/a> calls “the power of positive narcissicism”), but it’s even more delightful to know that Obadiah is blogging. In addition to being a swell chap he’s also a vital resource for all of us, as I learned over a year ago when I consulted him for advice on setting up our own UMW Webcast series<\/a>. In fact, the whole idea of a UMW Webcast series was inspired by Obadiah’s work. Doing research for a paper I was writing on Errol Morris’s film The Fog of War<\/em><\/a>, I had discovered Berkeley’s webcast of a public forum featuring both Morris and Robert McNamara<\/a>, the subject of the film. I was enthralled both by the forum and by the idea of putting all those resources onto the web. I immediately went back to my faculty and staff colleagues and said, “we must do this, especially for our Great Lives series.” When I got widespread agreement, I was then faced with the question of how to make it all happen–so I simply emailed the contact person at the Berkeley site, who directed me to Obadiah.<\/p>\n

One charming phone call later, and I had all the information I needed to get the website up and running.<\/p>\n

So here’s a public thank-you to Obadiah, and another installment in what could be (and I hope will be) the continuing saga of the growth of real school<\/a>. When a mighty Research I university helps a small, public, primarily liberal-arts university get its start in webcasting, and when high-speed networked computing makes those contacts not only easy but likely, the sky gets a little bigger and blue-er. I am grateful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A big shout-out here to Obadiah Tarzan Greenberg, product manager at Webcast.Berkeley. Obadiah’s just recently joined the blogosphere, as I learned when his link to my blog appeared on my WordPress dashboard under “incoming links.” It’s delightful to be linked … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4bHwM-6i","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardnercampbell.net\/blog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}