CogDogBlog

I’m only one of billions who loves Google Maps. They find things, you can overlay satellite images. But what if you could really peek in an see what is there?
Now you can* with the Street View option (*in limited areas). You can place a little icon person on the map, and get a [...]

I’m going to get worried when email spammers finally develop good writing skills. Today, I earned another pile of money, a million pounds courtesy of Microsoft (hey they have gazillions to spare, believable, eh?)

Dumb spamming, or How to Spam Like a Moronic Dummy:

Use a forged emailed address that is from cox.net? dead giveaway. Dumb. [...]

I leave in a few days for the 2007 NMC Summer Conference in Indianapolis. This is actually a minor test of blogging into the wind to see if Technorati picks up the conference tag of nmc2007 (I still am never 100% sure if it will pick up tagged blog posts).
But yay! it looks like the [...]

posted 16 Jan ‘06, 3.02pm MST PST on flickr

And now for something not related at all to blogging, twittering, or education technology at all.
Way too long after Al’s Keynote jived movie, I finally got around to doing my small bit and swapping out some of our incandescent light bulbs for fluorescent ones.
We’d already [...]

flickr creative commons photo Raising the Flag by selyfriday
This has nothing to do with McDonalds, but I loved the flickr image so much, I’m making a metaphorical stretch.
No, this is a clarion call to Remember the Blog! As we get more distributed in where our e-attention goes, be it various social networks, virtual worlds, and [...]

This barking is only partly about twitter. Well, actually its not about twitter at all, but I think I can satisfy some sanity overload by mentioning twitter 3 times in my first three sentences.
Over the long Memorial Day weekend here in the states, I’ve spent almost no time on the computer, and not much on [...]

My Faculty Academy presentation “Being There: nets, tweets, avatars” is getting some eyeballs where it is sitting in slideshare.
Just got a note that it is now listed on their featured presentations page

and has me thinking I should comb back through and make sure I’ve not done something typical like mispelling my own name [...]

Uh-oh, my 15 minutes of fame on TV is out and might be up. As previously noted, a few weeks back, I flew in and out of San Jose to be a panelist on the Ready2Net panel on “Web 2.0 Comes to Campus” (Drat you Bryan Alexander, likely too busy yourself, you should have been [...]

My how the web 2.0 winds blow. It’s been about a week since my last blog post about twitter (sounds sort of like a confessional- “post 5 hail tweets and…”).
Last week, right during the first day of Faculty Academy, twitter got really flaky. It would display tweets, but most tweets made just went into the [...]

Badge of Honor posted 17 May ‘07, 9.45pm MDT PST on flickr
You have no idea how much honor there was in being a part of Faculty Academy

Sitting in the Richmond airport, sipping the free wifi on my way home to Phoenix, I am still swimming in the euphoric high of having the honor to [...]