CogBlogged from ‘September, 2007’

The voices are not real but they do have some good ideas posted 11 Mar ’07, 3.10pm MDT PST on flickr Latest sign no the Beaverton-Hillsdale highway. The sign is in Portland, Oregon. (On the Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway, between Portland and Beaverton). I have no affiliation – I just drive or ride the bus past the sign most days. The sign is located here (via mapquest). Here is a cool link to Flash Earth which gives a satellite image of the sign! Blogged. Another gem of a sign on the Oregon highways. It has me thinking about Virtual Worlds! And this is a tip of the photo-berg- see /Werid Signs, Advertsm and headlines pool

Horrible Example posted 15 Feb ’05, 8.49am MST PST on flickr "Either be a good example or a horrible warning" Latest sign on the Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway. This is hard to photograph from the bus -it has to stop at a light behind some cars to be in the right place. The sign is in Portland, Oregon. (On the Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway, between Portland and Beaverton). I have no affiliation – I just drive or ride the bus past the sign most days. The sign is located here (via mapquest). This is a whole series of great sayings that a photographer grabs from a bus ride near Portland. Today was one of definite “Horrible Warning” as I spent a lot of time being busy not getting much really done.

I dont think much about the battery in my laptop– til it craps out on me. I’ve known that the one on my 2006 MacBookPro might be getting creaky. During the last trip to Boston, it went form about a 30% reading immediately to 0 (and went black) a few times. I knew it was off kilter as when I plugged it in the reading said “0%”. And when I run apps like iStat or coconut battery it reported a battery health of only 64% for !130 charge cycles… this means that even at full charged capacity, the battery would only go to about 2/3 its max capability when it is new. I knew there were the steps for battery recalibration, but had not done anything like that… well maybe forever. The Apple help forums are full of battery woes- red Xes, recalls, bursted ones. Heck, was fortunate. Well I [...]

I hear a strangle garbling noise as twitter eats yet another tweet. the does not follow you. Send FOLLOW THE to request. Oh, yes, that makes sense now.

For a long time I have continually raved about what I think is a severely under-used Cool Flickr Feature- the ability to add notes, or hypertext regions to images. For many long, winter nights, I have wondered.. Why Dont Teachers Jump All Over Such a Thing?, but alas, gave up on hearing an answer from the mountain. Just on a whim today- my colleague Joe Lamber asked if I knew of a web tool that allowed one to annotate any image with a push pin and a note like Google does for the maps, that I came across a holy grail I never knew existed- Fotonotes – code that provides any web site the ability to add this feature to image content: FotonotesTM is an [sic] standard, specification, and collection of scripts for annotating images. And towards the bottom, it is credited as the inspiration for the early flickr-ites to [...]

I could barely ignore an appearance of a new site called Inside a Dog, a new site from Victoria, Australia aimed at promoting youth reading and interesting in writing and those lovely old fashioned portable content devices called “books”. But what a clever web theme (yes, I am biased)- that a program all the way in Australia will build it around a quip of a US comic. Gosh, over here, the equivalent program might be a drab acronym or something corny like “Reading 2.0″. When was the last time something here was built around an Aussie pop culture reference (aside from the crocodile hunter guy)? Lintribution to HeyJude

I am in the one month scramble the jets mode to get ready for my Australian tour where I hope to avoid any street protesters nor tangle up anyone’s traffic with my motorcade. I had put some thought around how to do a Web 2.0 workshop that is not the typical ed-tech geek approach of spraying the audience with a huge firehose of “cool stuff”, and hope they are still standing, breathing when it is done. My thought was to avoid hitting them with what I call the “Laundry List”, and got a great response when I previously asked for suggestions if I were to demo something less of a blast ray effect. So my aim was smaller, hoping for Small, Precious Web 2.0 Gems. Heck, that was one of the most commented posts I ever did, and I picked up at least 5 new tools that had slid under [...]

Is anywhere in the world is it August 31? I have come up for air a day later.. Let’s see if I can come up with my five unusual, unheralded blogs. First is this tiny one originating from Monkton… just kidding. The Generator Blog collects all those sites that allow you to generate an image or something customized to your own “brand”, like putting your name on a rocket, Computer Keyboard Generator, or cereal box generator. Fun. Sue Waters is doing some awesome blogging (and twittering, and mobile tech stuff) from Western Australia. She’s being outspoken, and sharing a lot about her use of new technologies with her aquaculture students. Hope we get to meet when I am in Perth! Also on the Australian front, here’s a pitch for Al Upton, doing some nifty web 2.0 stuff with his year 3 students in Adelaide, where recently they have been telling [...]

Gender Bending in the Bacn posted 1 Sep ’07, 10.50am MDT PST on flickr Just got some fresh bacn in my inbox- seems like Quechup has some issues with gender