At last I’ve got the aggregation (or “dashboard”) site up: view it at http://rocksoulprogs08.umwblogs.org. Illness and travel slowed me down, but not most of the students, who are already busily exploring their musical lives, what they’re learning from each other, and what they’re learning from James Miller’s Flowers in the Dustbin, our first book. We finish Miller on Tuesday, moving to Nik Cohn’s Awopbopaloobop on Thursday. With any luck, I’ll have a couple of podcasts to publish by then as well.

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On our way to lunch yesterday, Jim Groom came by my office and gave me the last bit of official support on UMW Blogs: he showed me how to get the Spam Karma 2 self-promo banner out of the way of Pete Townshend’s smiling face. A wholly appropriate finale–though I know where Jim lives and will ask for the occasional “professional courtesy” as I get myself into snarls I can’t get out of. 🙂