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I’ve not read much on Skype until I noticed via Joi Ito that a Mac version was out. Heck, I did not even know what it did!
It appears to be a simple way to have audio conversations via the net, and even 3,4 way conversations. The trouble is I don’t have anyone to Skype [...]

In a world where human behavior is in accordance to PT Barnum’s laws, we all would be using Internet Explorer.
I am afraid we live in that world.
I waste more time trying to fix CSS problems in IE than I care for. Why cannot those Microsoft engineers build a browser that follows Web Standards?
Anyhow, [...]

Last night, my friend and colleague Tom Foster invited be as a “guest expert” (hah!) for a class he is teaching at Arizona State University, “Social and Ethical Issues in Educational Media”. The students were all K-12 teachers, librarians, and media specialists, and they had amazing, heroic energy for a group who had worked [...]

In preparation for a mid September Grand Canyon trip, this past Sunday I completed the unofficial, unsanctioned CogDogBlog triathalon, which will not be covered on NBC or commented on by Bob Costas.
The event included:

A two mile mountain bike ride to Camelback Mountain
A grueling ascent and descent of Camelback on the Cholla Trail (1200 feet [...]

The CogDog will be doing a lot more running around for the time being. It is not just the zaniness of semester start up, but I am feeling the loss of a valuable part-time student programmer who has been with MCLI for 5 years. This reduces my technology staff from 1.5 to 1.0, and that [...]

In another of our self-serving web celebrations, August 2004 marked the 10th year since we created the DirectorWeb, a resource site for users of Macromedia Director.
We have an irregular scrapbook of the site showing some its evolution– this was an early lesson on that in the rush to create new content, iin [...]

Wow. That’s about all, i can comment. Wow.
The newest EDCAUSE Review has not one, but two top notch articles on things near and dear to the CogDog, blogs and wikis. These are so good I am ready to print them, something I almost never do (at least to stop that annoying Educause web design of [...]

I am just testing the Windows version of ecto, the MovableType desktop editor. I am offering it to our newbie bloggers in the interest of making it easier for them to edit their Ocotillo Action Group blogs..
It is about the same as the Mac version, different panes, buttons in different places, and the buttons for [...]

… when it takes less time to find a department’s web page via Google than navigating the main site itself.

It’s energizing to have an eager workshop audience…. today I demo-ed our Maricopa ePortfolio system for the new interns in our Faculty In Progress Program (FIPP). After a presentation on portfolio-ing by one of our experts from Mesa Community College.
I showed them a mocked up fake ePort, and then we just created new content on [...]