CogDogBlog

Although being rather involved in NMC’s Second Life and Virtual Worlds endeavors, I’ve yet to find or blog much on the experience there over the last 9 months or so. My SL namesake will turn 1 year old in a few months, though in many ways I feel still like a puppy (”In Second [...]

While I was not blogging here last week did not mean I was not spitting posts elsewhere For my planned trip next October to Australia, I took Nancy’s Chocolate laced advice to blog the trip by setting up on WordPress.com yet another blog outlet, CogDogRoo.
My plan is to not only blog the trip, [...]

I ended up taking more than a week off on my self-proclaimed time for writing elsewhere as a commenter only, not posting any new posts here. I really enjoyed the experience and it seemed to resonate with others. My tracks in cocomment indicate 51 different places I left my mark, not really all that huge [...]

It was almost a year ago I reflected (not the first, not the last), on the subtle power of blog commenting, which to me is still as vital a part of the ecosystem as pounding out new posts (or incessant barking). I was just nicely reminded of this by a comment on a 3 year [...]

Wow, I really hope PPTExchange is a parody, please say it is so…
Are you the kind of person who writes their thoughts down in PowerPoint?
Did you ever think that your presentations might be worth sharing -or even worth money?
We’re exactly those people, and we thought: Wouldn’t it be nice to have a marketplace where [...]

Workshopping Itavailable on flickr
“Who is taking a picture of me?” This during my last presentation at UNITEC.

This 3+ year old photo was recently discovered by Karen (partially in the left side), and was taken in one of the workshops I did during a visit to New Zealand in November 2004. This workshop, or BlogShop, was [...]

Disclaimer: I work for NMC…
We are running our Spring NMC Online Conference with a theme that originally floated through the 2007 Horizon Report, what at one time we were calling “The Small Video”. Just in the last few months, I’ve been tracking how much more prevalent the use of video has become as a media [...]

I found a new cartoon tag line for this blog, on the front page at Live in the Deliirious Cool (no idea what the site is)… I’ll let them bear the brunt of re-use of a published newspaper cartoon.
There are two dogs talking, one says, “I had my own blog for a while, but [...]

The plans are just in the draft stage, but I’ve gotten an awesome invitation from the Australian Flexible Learning Network to do a speaking tour of the Australia capitol capital cities in October 2007. In this case, I’d be having to fill some rather large, chocolate filled shoes, as this year’s speaker for the series [...]

Here is a cheap but useful trick for you WordPress bloggers- don’t sap your readers with 10 mile long URLs.
If you use the Permalink option to publish your posts based on the date, time, generally it turns a long title blog post like above into something horrible like:
http://cogdogblog.com/2007/02/14/pimp-up-your-wordpress-guru
-status-trimming-those-long-title-posts-with-slugs
That is butt ugly and pretty much says [...]