May 31
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Holding Handsavailable on flickr
A fascinating sculpture outside a Department of Education building in Calgary
My other web experiment today for the NMC Conference is setting up a page to provide some persuasion and aggregation for my goal of having participants “Tag This Conference”.
The site I set up:
http://www.nmc.org/events/2006summerconf/tag.php
is aggregating the public tags of nmc2006 from [...]
May 31
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May 31
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Cleveland Rocksavailable on flickr
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Next week, June 7-10, is the NMC Summer Conference, this year we are in Cleveland, hosted by a Fab Four of Case Western Reserve University, the Cleveland Institute of Art, the Cleveland Museum of of Art, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
This [...]
May 31
It was way overdue, but now our Feed2JS service and downloadable code now offers support for RSS feeds that contain links to podcast media– this means any RSS feed with RSS “enclosures” can now be rendered in any web page using our cut and paste code.
Through a simple patch to the MagpieRSS parser library, and [...]
May 31
Just because Gardner asked for it (and in fact it was recorded), here is a low quality, 80 minute MP3 from the session Brian Lamb and I did in Flagstaff on Social Software (or as we called it, Tag Cloud frenzy):
http://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/audio/nau06-keynote.mp3 [1:20:00 36.6 Mb MP3]
May 30
I’m working on integrating a Google Calendar into a WP blog (not this one, an NMC project in development). The master plan is to allow a number of groups ti enter potential shared events into a common calendar, and syndicate to our blog site.
I have a few events dumped into a Google Calendar for testing. [...]
May 26
Sigh, here is another yet another lame comment spam effort I spotted starting today, scanning the scum that is caught in the Spam Karma 2 nets on this blog.
Comment spammers are using Feedburner to insert into the URl field things like http://feeds.feedburner.com/BuyHotPokerPillsPorn — all in the hope of hoisting some pages somewhere on the web [...]
May 25
Gulp. After telling everyone today about the virtues of using flickr creative commons images, I got caught. I my haste last night to find a banner image for our keynote tag cloud page, I located a nice San Francisco Peaks profile via a creative commons search in Flickrlilli. I did not even register that the [...]
May 25
The sky over Flagstaff Arizona today was actually crystal clear, but if you had appropriate x-ray glasses on you may have spotted some tag clouds, sprinkled with some Canadian flair. Is that too vague an opening blog post?
Okay, today I had the sheer pleasure and honor to co-present, and that verb is used loosely, because [...]
May 24
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Brother and Sisteravailable on flickr
Today is Cadu’s birthday! She (black lab on the left) and Mickey (right) were from the same litter, though differed in just about every other form factor.
Cadu will be 5 today; Mickey is forever frozen at 2 and a half.
Doggie party tonight!