Posts from ‘October, 2003’

Barely relevant to the rest of this blog, what follows are the collections of thoughts that brewed, frothed, fermented, distilled during a weeken of travel. On the heels of a trip to Columbus for the NLII Focus Session on Learning Objects, I actually returned home to Phoenix, but weirdly enough did not exit with baggage [...]

What follows, or rambles are some thoughts on today’s NLII Focus Session (October 10, 2003) at Ohio State. I should say now that the best part of these events are getting to meet colleagues face to face, and without a doubt the attendance of 60 were all people I respect and value their varied work [...]

Well I feel safer having implemented my blog-spam defense perimeter but apparently there are still some pesky cockroaches sniffing around the edges.
Here is another one for those keeping their blog spam filters up to date:
IP Address: 219.141.115.94
Name: gifts
Email Address: gifts-catalog@yahoo.com
add to the banned domains:
lstor(dot)com
with a variety of un=related crap attempted to shove as link [...]

Here is a sneaky dog’s first peek at Learning Objects: Believe It or Not!, the gist of what I am presenting 1:00 PM Friday as part of the “Learning Objects Lounge” at the EDUCAUSE/NLII Focus Session on Learning Objects.
Please do not alert the lawyers for the Ripley’s enterprise. It was an irresistable metaphor.
Actually the [...]

Our learning object bloggers Lora and Boris are making a second appearance at the October 14-17 NMC Online Conference on Learning Objects.
Taking to a new level their story presented at MERLOT 2003, a garden varierty PowerPoint, for the NMC conference they have speaking parts as well, as the presentation appears via Macromedia Breeze, the platfom [...]

Wahoo! Thanks to the clear details from Jay Allen, Killing Comment Spam Dead, in relation to an earlier yelp, it looks like we are flipping the score on comment-blog-spam.
It wa snot too much work to download and install 3 MT plug-ins and modify the various MT templates. There is a small but not painful delay [...]

I give up. The rate of blog comment spam to this site is bothersome, now with 10 banned IPs (which likely does very little), and going in to remove the comments manually is getting very old.
The latest, unrelated, un-meaningful, unwanted, undesired, unethical, un-freakin’ stooooopid crap that arrived in my comments:

IP Address: 219.184.4.154
Name: dish network
Email Address: [...]

It is likely impossible to describe in text NobodyHere… It is a site to explore messages, relationships of words, metaphors, and variety of interesting gadgets.
“How does this work?”
Just click. All pages are connected.
“Why?”
Because I like to express myself using animation, text and programming. The site has been on-line since 1998 and grew into [...]

Ouch, I just hurt mysefl laughing… The folks at J-Walk blog have done it again.
Find out all about Spam University, ” the world’s top-rated educational institution for the growing spam industry.”
Under Admissions:
Spam University receives thousands of applications every month.
Regretfully, we can’t accept everyone who applies. Consequently, we have stringent requirements for acceptance.
We’ve found that [...]

Wow, these TypePad blogs just continue to pop up, all nicely organized. Here is Ratchet Up “is John Schott & friends, featuring links, often daily, to something of interest in digital culture and the arts.”
These are not just your typical blog echoes from elsewhere, each story is originally written and tastefully illustrated.
The Ratchet Up brief [...]