Posts from ‘November, 2004’

I give credit to “Thomas” , a participant in one my recent workshops at Manukau Institute of Technology here in Auckland, NZ for turning me on to a new search site- A9. It is a whopper.
It’s been about a Google years since I got interested or even raised an eyebrow at a new search engine, [...]

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Find the Dogavailable on my flickr

See if you can locate the puppy trying to get someone’s attention from this truck parked in Rawena, New Zealand.

While enjoying a flat white in this cosy cafe in Rawena, I was [...]

Despite a lack of clearly focused photographs, there are some out there clinging to firm beliefs in Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster. I get the same sensation trying to get a clear picture of Blackboard’s ePortfolio functionality.

Some messages of inquiry about the legendary beast in question bounced around the AAHE Electronic Portfolio Action Committee. [...]

Stranger than real life, or maybe not. The day after my third Weblog workshop here in New Zealand, broke a stranger than life story.
The just announced winner of the 2004 Best Personal Blog award at the Netguide Web Awards was the bizgirl blog, advertised with an aluring photo of the “librarian of international mystery”. The [...]

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Pick a Sideavailable on my flickr

There is humor on the New Zealand tricks on the highway… often you see pithy sacrastic remarks like “Keep Smoking- That’s Why You Have Two Lungs”, or this example suggesting there are [...]

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Logging on to Bloggingavailable on my flickr

The day of my blogging workshop at Manukau Institute of Technology in Auckland, there was put out in the hallway a marketing magazine that heralded blogging as a marketing tool. Playing [...]

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What do YOU want?available on my flickr

Are you talking to me? ARE you talking to ME? Are YOU talking to…. can you believe that CogDogBlog will feature a photo of a cat? What is going on here [...]

I might have been a bit premature to share the wiki links for my New Zealand workshops. Apparently the server here got rather overwhelmed with traffic, because it was pretty much unusuable during my workshops down south at Manukau Institute of Technology.
At 10:00 am I was pretty much up the wiki without a paddle… until [...]

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Weet-Bixavailable on my flickr

The number one cereal for New Zealand is a giant Shredded Wheat. And you gotta love a food product from the folks at “Sanitorium”!

More on New Zealand brands. I am talking all kinds of [...]

Hmmm, The November 2004 issue of Wired has the goods on the notion of “Rip-Mix-Feed” line of thought.
The magazine includes an audio CD with music specifically with Creative Commons licenses for ripping and mixing, and even a few are further licensed for sampling and commercial use. I’ve yet to listen to it [...]