CogDogBlog

(with apologies to Meg’s “What We’re Doing When We Blog”)… Discussions of “folksonomy” are meme-ing across the blog-space and I am disappointed that it is yet another round of issues being encamped in dichotomies.
I am picturing something like a “Meta Data Professional Wrestling Smackdown” (imagine a deep booming voice, not mine as no signs of [...]

Today was one of those technical gambles that actually, sort of worked! This morning, the EDUCUASE/NLII Meeting in New Orleans had a general session where the New Media Consortium provided a 5 Minutes of Fame overview of their just released Horizon Report (I was lucky to be among some great colleagues on thei Adivsory Board [...]

My hands are quivering. The DTs are starting. I have photos to upload… and Flickr has sent the database for a massage?

Will all the tags be rubbed down as well? Will there be vibrant toenail polish? Will the bunions be sanded? An herbal wrap?
Oh well, I guess I can find something else to do. [...]

I’m into some crazy stuff. If you told me even last year I’d be having a 1 hour, clear, voice conversation over the net to a colleague in Finland, I would check to see what medications you were missing. But today, I was interviewed via Skype by Teemu Arina from Finland, where he was the [...]

Feedback is a mixed bag, and one lessons I may have learned is that you are never going to please an audience as wide as the one on the web. So among the many places we collect feedback, some recent ones have just caught my eye. First, from our Writing HTML tutorial, we have more [...]

I admit it- the web has ruined my ability to read long papers. Okay, that is a cop out. But like conference presentations that are 90% background and bullets, in reading published papers, I get the twitch very quickly if I cannot find the concrete, the stuff I can see, touch, click, feel, experience.
Hence Feasibility [...]

I spent my Saturday in school, not furthering my education, but paying my penance for zipping by a photo rador van last month.
That’s right, I did an 8 hour course from the National Safety Council, in lieu of paying the full fine, going to court. Sitting in a cramped hot hotel conference room with [...]

What are the odds? Amy Gaharan has just announced her joining the Professional Bloggers Association (PBA):
the practice of being a consulting blogger-for hire, or operating a weblog with a functioning revenue model that goes beyond Google Ads
Now it would be easy to take potshots, to throw darts, to provide snickering insinuations about the beginning [...]

Oh, I feel like a bad net citizen. Either due to my own code blunders, or someone else’s overly aggressive page reloads or some force of the moon, our Feed2JS site has been banned from accessing del.icio.us feeds. Sorry about that folks, but you cannot display these feeds through our site. This is what you [...]

Google has spoken: Web links tagged with rel=nofollow shall not get PageRank. A grand rejoicing has been heard across the land. Well, at least from my office.
From now on, when Google sees the attribute (rel=”nofollow”) on hyperlinks, those links won’t get any credit when we rank websites in our search results. This isn’t a negative [...]