Buried Bones (Archive) for October, 2004

Toogle Retro Back to ASCII Art? Or Not?

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this October 17th, 2004 6:35 pm

Toogle takes a twist and strong copy of Google’s Image search except rather than return images scraped from web pages, it returns a visual representation of the search words made entirely out of text.
it harkens back to the old monochrome terminal days of ASCII art. But this is way more fun…
Toogle is a Text version [...]

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Email as the Most Used And Worst Method of “Knowledge Management”

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this October 16th, 2004 4:02 pm

Email is the communication norm. It is no more special than the phone. But it is the worst way to manage information over time or the “KM” buzzword (which by the way I have never understood— “mamaging knowledge”, it sounds like managing “wisdom” or quantifying ethics or s snipe hunt).
I have noticed recently, in our [...]

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Stoopid Web Design Confounded By Stoopider Customer Service

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this October 16th, 2004 3:27 pm

As a single developer, I have programmed and designed a number of web transaction systems, and not one of them was limited to use on platform or web browsers (well to be honest, our 1998 Hero’s Journey site has some JavaScript quirks that prevent full use on some browsers, then again, I had no idea [...]

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PowerPointLess: Eric Meyer’s Full-On CSS Slide Show

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this October 15th, 2004 1:19 pm

I think I got here via scanning RSS from Roland Tanglao - one of the Gods of Explaining CSS to Mere Mortals, Eric Meyer has rolled out a nifty way to assemble a presentation without any touching and software from Redmond.

S5 is a fully web standards compliant XHMTL slide show creator- you can assemble [...]

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Ocotillo Spotlight on Media Services

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this October 15th, 2004 7:49 am

Another arm of our Ocotillo is the Spotlight on Instructional Technology where we try and highlight once a month an interesting use of technology at each of our colleges. We ask a rep from each college’s technology group to provide text and photos for a story, but sometimes it just takes a long time to [...]

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October Online Learning Group Catchup

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this October 15th, 2004 7:26 am

Our Ocotillo Online Learning Group meetings have really taken off nicely this year. This group, now its fifth year, began as a “Blackboard Users Group” but we have broadened it to include demos and exchanges for people using any sort of online technology. I recall in the old days a few meetings with an audience [...]

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Syllabus Magazine Drops Faculty Audience for Presidents/CIOs

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this October 14th, 2004 8:29 pm

I’ve been reading Syllabus magazine for quite some time, not always agreeing with everything in print, but I found good stories on instructional technology, case studies, review of technology that faculty use.
But all that has been flushed. Syllabus has morphed to “Campus Technology”
…the complete resource for leaders in higher education. Campus Technology offers an expanded [...]

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Beached

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this October 13th, 2004 9:47 pm

flickr foto

Beachedavailable on my flickr

Waiting for the tide to rise at 6000 feet above sea level. At the end of the valley in the little town of Strawberry, AZ, this boat is ready for a ride… The [...]

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The Boys Are in Town

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this October 13th, 2004 4:57 pm

Well the boys are in town… John and George are on their way to Tempe (no this is not a Dead Beatles reunion, it is the other John and George).
After their shindig at ASU, I am counting on meeting up for some drinks at the Billet Bar in downtown Scottsdale and then maybe up for [...]

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Time Furl-ed

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this October 12th, 2004 7:18 am

Will wrote today about his mild wonderment on his time spent roaming blogs, furl-ing and webnoting interesting web sites:
So I had about 90 minutes of true blogging flow this morning, reading the latest in my Bloglines aggregator, clicking on links, Furling interesting posts, and stealing paragraphs here and there and saving them as a Webnote. [...]

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