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Re: Where the Orient Meets the Internet

Posted in Belly Dance, Fact Checking, Internet, tagged , , , , on February 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

And now a cautionary tale about why you can’t believe everything you read on the Internet.
Back in the 1990s, the European band Noor Shimaal put out an album of North African music. In Arabic, “noor” means “light” and “shimaal” means “north” so roughly translated “noor shimaal”  is “northern light”. My friend, Zara Noor (Terri Massa), [...]

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Re: Pod (cast) People

Posted in Belly Dance, Learning 2.0, Podcasts, Radio Bastet on August 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

I didn’t subscribe to any feeds, but I did enjoy searching for various podcasts on the podcast search directories. Yahoo seems to be the best. For some fun, click here to listen to one of Radio Bastet’s vintage bellydance music broadcasts. If you click on the website link, you will see a detailed playlist.
Marisa, [...]

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Re: Totally YouTubular

Posted in Belly Dance, Learning 2.0, Social cataloging, Tagging, YouTube on August 26, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

From the wicked cartoonist & librarian team at Unshelved. A little commentary on Library 2.0 and Web 2.0. Click on the strip to see the last frame which wound up under the sidebar.

I have been spending an unnatural amount of time on YouTube recently because I’m preparing for an oral history panel on the [...]

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Re: Do the Mashup

Posted in Belly Dance, Learning 2.0, Librarian Trading Cards, Mashups, Orion slave girls, Star Trek on June 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

It’s official. I have had way too much fun with the FD Flickr Tools mashup. It’s great! In addition to the above librarian trading card, I also created the following:

A motivational poster. “Dreeing your weird” is a little shout-out to Terry Pratchett’s Tiffany Aching series. It means “to face your fate”.

A movie poster. The next [...]

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