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Credit: StartinSalford on Flickr (cc) This Spring, with input from the Commons community, the Commons team has developed a quick privacy checkup. These tips will help Commons members make sure they know how to protect their information and privacy when using the Commons. Commons members have control over the information they share and the content […]
“This blog is partly an exercise in self-examination and cultural analysis (as all personal narrative is). Second, they will rely heavily on those tried-and-true crutches of music writing, image and metaphor. And finally, as someone with an evolving literacy in a variety of musical genres (rock, jazz, classical, flamenco, and Latin), and some familiarity with […]
“To address the paucity of professorial pizza punditry, CUNY Pie has assembled a crack team of pizza-loving academics to make periodic pilgrimages to pizza joints both great and small, and to report back on their findings.” -About CUNY Pie Hello, members of the CUNYverse! Did you know that when the CUNY Academic […]
Hello, members of the CUNYverse! Did you know that the CUNY Academic Commons was officially opened after presenting it at the CUNY IT Conference in December 2009? Which means this year marks the 10-year anniversary of the Commons! To celebrate, we are asking for you guys, our community members, to make short submissions telling us […]
“It is a place for people with passion projects. If you’re someone who is an opportunist when it comes to spaces where they don’t tell you how to use the system, and you’re interested in discovering what it will allow you to do, then it’s a good place for you to be. ” -Michael […]
Welcome fellow Commoners, This week, some of the most common ways people make use of the Commons is on display in some beautiful new sites that were created this week. The Ladies’ Garment Worker Speaks Volumes – This website will chronicle one student’s read through the eight year run of the Ladies Garment Worker’s Union publication […]
Welcome back fellow Commoners! Another semester and it’s another buzz of activity on the Commons. Since it’s the beginning of a new academic year, I thought a kind of orientation to some of the digital initiatives going on around the Commons is called for. GC Digital Initiatives – A great site to check often, it […]
Welcome fellow Commoners, I’m happy to bring you all another spotlight on a #maker here at the Commons, Michelle Zimmer’s project The Bronx was Brewing. In the years before prohibition, over sixteen hundred breweries pumped out more than 2 billion gallons of beer a year. By the end of prohibition, only a handful remained. Many […]
