Posts from ‘August, 2004’

I told myself I would stop my critical writing mode kick, but am not listening.
The RSS readers this morning brought in a Radiant Marketing link with interviews from the three of the Cluetrain dudes on the “future of blogging”.
Normally I would pass on something from a “Marketing Group” where the tag line is [...]

Sifting through the EDU_RSS feeds this evening, I found this reference:
Bots, blogs and news aggregators
The brilliant Marcus P. Zillman has compiled a free 20-page whitepaper on Bots, Blogs and News Aggregators (PDF). Good stuff. I’m working on a similar effort for a new Social Media blog I’m about to announce.
Sounded tempting. I’ve picked up some [...]

(I am reaching for an all-time obscure title for this entry). Out of curiosity, I followed a link from a TrackBack notification to this entry on Rino’s Blog (in dutch):
Weblogs voor studenten
OK, we zijn het er na de posts van Alan Levine , Scott Leslie, Sybilla, Pierre, en ondergetekende en de bijbehorende kommentaren zo’n beetje [...]

flickr foto

Is Someone Calling Us?available on my flickr

Cadu and Mickey hear the sound of a bag of potato chips being opened… 3 miles away!

It’s hard enough to get people to pay attention to your blog, but when the [...]

I was a commuter today- a one day trip fro Phoenix to San Francisco for the NMC Horizon Project meeting… I am rather humbled and honored to be a part of a group of heavy hitters in the instructional technology realm- Phil Long from MIT (we first crossed paths at the TLTGroup’s mid 1990s summer [...]

It’s been a while since I updated my data files for the nifty Flash mapping app- IndyJunior. This application reads coordinate data from an XML file, and maps locations and current geographic location.
Check out the CDB travel maps for 2003 and 2004.
By turning the template for this MT page from a *.html to [...]

I’ve been mildly curious about some of the new attempts at making RSS feeds more human readable at first click- rather than seeing ugly XML code, these “new” feed displays use CSS (Style sheets) and some sort of magical transform method called XSLT — basically it means if you click a link that points to [...]

Taking some blindfolded tosses into the wiki pond, I am going to see if this stuff really works. It comes up in many circles, discussions of online course development, learning objects, and just today in the digital storytelling workshop:
Where can I find sources of free media (images, audio, video)?
This is usually in the context of [...]

I’m spending the bulk of this week helping out at a 40 hour “learnshop” our office sponsors for faculty, this one is on Bringing Digital Storytelling to the Classroom (ingore the June dates, this was so popular it has been repeated).
Facilitators Linda Hicks and Rachel Woodburn have been co-teaching a course in Digital Storytelling at [...]

Phil Ringnalda provides a surgical view of the new MSN blog pages- beyond the wonderfully dense details, I loved this quote:
The HTML is, of course, execrable. The one possible way they could have gotten some approving buzz from tech bloggers was to use extremely clean (X)HTML, but given the apparent total lack of a corporate [...]