That was corny.  Every Saturday I sit here trying to be clever in the title and then lose hope, just suffer with me.

What a week though!  Things kicked off with the triumphant return of Helldriver.  I had high hopes for our nascent music blog on the Commons and they’ve been exceeded.  The post was a lovely piece about catching up with Miles Davis thanks to some unnamed British angle on WKCR.  After reading it I went and dug through the CD books to pull out whatever Miles I had left after the various moves across New York over the years.  Let this be a lesson to us all, just clear off a Saturday and get all of those old discs into iTunes or whatever you use because there’s nothing more heartbreaking than learning that most of your jazz collection is scratched up beyond repair.  I did manage find my pristine copy of ‘On The Corner‘ and got to spend some time with one of the more vilified albums of his career.  Thanks for that Helldriver.

Michael Smith over at the York College Comm Tech blog had a great post up explaining some of the finer points of Fair Use in the aural and visual worlds.  I hadn’t ever considered how exactly students in the arts went about accounting for their sources in their work and it was nice to get some insight there.  I’m hoping someone pops up in the comments to explain how they’ve worked around Fair Use and citation in their own personal experience.

Michael Oman-Reagan at My God, it’s Full of Macs! appears again.  Looks like Apple had the nerve to censor a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist.  I told you last week there was something Sarah Palin-y about Macs.

Scott Voth checked in again this week to highlight some features on the wiki that can help everyone make the most out of BlackBoard.  I’m tempted to make some kind of BlackBoard joke here because…well you know…but I’m afraid these folks might have my hide.  If you haven’t spent a lot of time with the ‘Wiki‘ feature of the Commons BE NOT AFRAID!  Seriously, go play, you’re not going to break anything.  It’s pretty cool what everyone else is building over there and the more you put in the more you’ll get out.

Jeremy Rafal from Occasioanl Introspections on the World made two visits this week.  The first of which was an awesome call out on a beverage tax ad.  Plus, let’s take a moment to really enjoy how creepy that ad is.  Seriously, go watch it.  It reminds me a lot of these great ads that were being run by the good people at the High Fructose Corn Syrup lobby about a year ago:

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I wonder if the actors are Equity?

The week wraps up with Anthony Picciano at Tony’s Thoughts pointing us to an article from the Chicago Tribune’s Steve Chapman.  It’s a timely read in the wake of the teacher cuts coming down the line and the spat of whole schools being fired in the name of reform.  Maybe we need a government bail-out of the education industry.  I sure could use 700 billion.

Till next week!