CogBlogged from ‘October, 2007’

Sleepy Pup posted 31 Oct ’07, 1.45pm MDT PST on flickr This is how Fresa spends 85% of her time (10% allowed for chewing shoes and 5% for eating) Fresa is my role model– I think I should catch some ZZZZs given how much energy got burned up on the Australia extravaganza.

Rev up your LP of “Who’s Next”: I’m readin’ feeds And when I want to read blogs, I’m going mobile Well I’m gonna find a blog on wheels, see how it feels, Goin’ mobile Keep me feeding Actually not, as my mobile phone does not much more than allow phone calls and taking blurry photos. Oh, I can send messages to twitter. But someday, someday, I will have a real phone, that can do things like get web content and read QR codes- those bar codes which can link mobiles to web content. I got interested in them a bit when I stumbled across Semapedia, a web tool for putting bar codes in the world that link locations to info in Wikipedia. Today I got a link (was it from RSS, twitter? who knows any more) to Brent Schlenker’s post onn publishing a conference guide that had embedded QR codes [...]

flickr cc licensed photo by billy v Ahem. Is this thing on? Yes, it is me. I am back from my 18 day Around Australia Tour, all of which has been blogged over at http://cogdogroo.wordpress.com and as such, is not reblogged here. But in some numbers, the trip included: Visits/presentations to 8 cities in 2 weeks – all content stored at http://cogdogroo.wikispaces.com/: Being There in that Unevenly Distributed Future What’s On Your Horizon? What’s On Your Horizon? 50 Web2.0 Ways To Tell a Story Precious Web Gems Powerful Personal Portals 587 photos 236 web sites tagged 37 blog posts during the trip 1 wombat held in Tasmania 1 trip rowing underneath the Sydney Harbour Bridge 1 fantastic hike in the blue mountains with 7 friends from Sydney 1 pilgrimage to visit the grave of Bon Scott Countless number of new friends, colleagues, twitteraitis linked up during this journet I managed [...]

I am writing to you from a hill top view of Marion Bay in Tasmania Australia (no dingo jokes shall be made)… this is a few days into my 3 week Circuit Tour of Australia and my blogging for this time will be completely through http://cogdogroo.wordpress.com — for the duration, I am using my own code (admittedly took me more time than I would have liked to install it on my own server, I am code rusty there) to embed the RSS feed from that blog just to the CogDogBlog home page. Presentations, audio, pictures, all the usual debris shall be blogged there and most of the materials are on the buddy wiki at http:/cogdogroo.wikspaces.com/ (am I branded or what?). (Will I stop asking questions in parentheses?) (no). There are many things I shall be slacking on – I have about 5 short recorded conversations with colleagues Gardner Campbell, George [...]

I am done. I cannot do any more tools. I have now completed the 49th version of my Dominoe Story in 49 different web creation tools. Actually, there are 7 tools left in the trash bin that were buggy or just not worth the time. What started out as a half-thought idea in July grew into a stupidly monstrous task, but you know how it goes, set a goal, blog it, and …. This is for my 50 Web 2,0 Ways to Tell a Story workshop that gets its first test run a week from Monday in Hobart, Tasmania I have an access list of the 50 tools, links to my and other examples, and a summary of the 49 versions of my single story with notes on each tool. I have some cleanup, typo checks, and the last piece is I want to write a summary and a list [...]

This is really disturbing. I was looking quickly to embed a quick poll into a web page, so why not reach for a free easy tool? The first google hit on free web poll, nupolls.com, was nothing fancy, but seemed to do the job (ugh, decrepit 1999 vintage HTML generated). Until I glanced at the copy/paste code. Down at the bottom was a bunch of embedded links to sites I would not want to link to (actual URLs obscured) – note the explanation provided: <td><!– This is why service free –> <a href="http://xxxxxxx.net" target="_blank"><font>rape pay sites</font></a> <a href="http://xxxxxxx.org/page6.php"><font>1</font></a> <a href="http://xxxxxxx.org/page7.php"><font>2</font></a> <a href="http://xxxxxxx.org/page8.php"><font>3</font></a> <a href="http://xxxxxxx.org/page9.php"><font>4</font></a> <a href="http://xxxxxxx.org/page10.php"><font>5</font></a> <!– End : N–></td> Their Privacy Page states: External Links This site contains links to other sites nuPolls.Com is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such Web sites. It does not exactly say that the free service they provide is [...]

With my insane schedule picking up more insanity a week from now, I really should have said, “no” when we were approached to do a session for the K12 Online Conference coming up next month. But its such a great event, all volunteer run, and speaks to everything my colleagues I and support in terms of open-ness, so Brian, D’Arcy and I said, “ok”. Besides, Darren, Lani, Sheryl, Wes, et al are just so niiiiiice. So we just posted/updated a teaser for our session on “More Than Cool Tools”. As a teaser ought to go, it teases, does not say much, and leaves you hanging at the end. That was deliberate, folks. But what pushed it nicely over the top was some rapid mixmastering by DJ Lamb, to give a routine slideshow a hip angle. Ironically, it is this ability to sync audio and slides for a web based delivery [...]

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