CogDogBlog

Yesterday, a phone call cam and was like one of those cans of compressed air designed to blow the cobwebs off my neurons. Someone teaching psychology at a school located in the middle of the US was interested in a multimedia project dating back to 1997 (and that was when it was completed).

Negative Reinforcement [...]

As the tawdry saying goes… “I Like to watch”
It’s not what your dirty minds think… I was one of more than 100 people watching LiveMarks, a near real time window of the input to the social bookmarking pile called del.icio.us:
LiveMarks is a project to show del.icio.us bookmarks live.
On the left of LiveMarks you can [...]

= Anybody But Yankees
Bottom of the eighth, and things are going well. My bias is rooted in my childhood heros circa 1970 and 1983

If you lived through an era of music on LPs to CDs to now MP3s, you may be experiencing a syndrome I have felt myself… you’re listening nicely to a song on your digital music player, and your past patterns of listening to the order of songs on a fixed medium cause you to expect [...]

Who wudda thunk an audience would fill a theater for a one-man play about using Google?
My wife called yesterday and said through her work we could have front row seats for the opening of Dave Gorman’s Googlewhack Adventure. I’m sworn to secrecy about not giving away the plot, but I laughed so hard my sides [...]

It’s some very small things in web sites that clearly point out to me that they were (a) designed by programmers; or (b) never run through usability testing by humans. Here is today’s morsel…
An email notification arrived telling of a new message posted to some discussion forum I cannot recall visiting for [...]

A few posts back I asked for some help to Convince Curmudgeons with Comments — this is in reference to a few vocal critics of our online report tool for a faculty summer project professional growth program who did not want copies of their projects to be cross listed in our Maricopa Learning eXchange. [...]

Harriet’s blog is pink, peppy, and personal. Is it “real” (and what is “real”?)

According to CollaborativeRank, the new tool that analyzes social bookmark activity on del.icio.us, my own tagging activity is ranked “nonaggressive” (at least I am in 143nd place):

What is CollaborativeRank? It’sl like GoogleRank for del.icio.us tagging:
Del.icio.us users who bookmark helpful/timely URLs (as evidenced by others subsequently bookmarking those URLs) will be rewarded with higher CollaborativeRank, which [...]

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New Bottom Partsavailable on my flickr

My 2002 vintage iBook finally got home from a month’s vacation to Apple’s repair resort in Tennesse. In addition to a logic board replacement, they replaced the bottom case (the white new [...]