Buried Bones (Archive) for November, 2007

Dr Glu Achieves Higher Level of IT Karma

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this November 30th, 2007 3:08 pm

Gardner Campbell gets interviewed by Jon Udell for ITCoversations… I am all gushing like I know a celebrity. Congrats to Dr Glu!

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Embed Flickr Notes In Other Web Pages!

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this November 30th, 2007 9:45 am

Sometimes a comment spurns me to explore and learn something new– it just happened!
I love flickr notes and am confounded about how few people, especially educators take advantage of a tool to provide hypertext annotation to images. But the only way to view them is on the flickr site.
So when “kev_hickey_uk” left a comment [...]

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CommentPressing NMC Paper on Evolution of Communication

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this November 30th, 2007 9:11 am

I’ve been eager to use CommentPress since I first heard about it. Developed by the Institute for the Future of the Book, CP is a cleverly designed template for WordPress geared for online publication of books and papers. Sections of your paper are posted as blog entries, but the big, big feature is that unlike [...]

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Reason #1045 Why I Love Slideshare

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this November 29th, 2007 4:43 pm

There are very few things that compel me to use PowerPoint. I have scolded PPT, stomped on it, lifted my doggie leg and peed on it for years… the only reason in the last 12 months I have quietly stifled my contempt is that it is the vehicle where I can post presentations on Slideshare– [...]

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See “The Rim” with Google Maps Terrain View

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this November 27th, 2007 10:17 pm

The word is out and another linktribution for Tim Lauer- Google Maps has replaced the hybrid map view (satellite imagery with roads on top” with a new button- “terrain” which shows topography and landforms in a shaded relief image.
But hey, dont go scanning some place like southern Illinois (no offense, but that is some [...]

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Trophy Blogging

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this November 26th, 2007 11:32 pm

Mike Batiste with the Euroleague trophy posted 8 May ‘07, 6.58am MDT PST on flickr
Euroleague Final’s - Panathinaikos Athens VS Cska Moskow - Athens, Greece 2007

Ditto, ditto, ditto, congrats to all who are finalists in the 2007 Edublog Awards.
Vote now, vote early, heck, vote often again and again to see who brings home [...]

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Google We Have a Problem

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this November 25th, 2007 8:52 am

At the Speed of Link Farm Spam posted 25 Nov ‘07, 7.56am MST PST on flickr
It took less than 5 hours after a recent blog post for this first link farm spam trackback to arrive.
As bad as that is, the give credit to someone else or am I really known as "Kick-Fiend"?
Hello Google! [...]

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Mobile Vs Dish Speed

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this November 25th, 2007 7:48 am

I recently got set up with a wireless broadband card for access to the net via my mobile provider (it is Alltel, but the network is Sprint). While up in the mountains of Strawberry, Arizona, it was time for an old fashioned western shootout between my satellite internet connection (Hughes) and the new mobile [...]

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Participating in Other People’s Spaces

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this November 24th, 2007 10:56 pm

I was pleased to see one of my new, “bestest” colleagues I got to know this year, Sue Waters get a well deserved recognition link from Stephen Downes for her chock full of good advice post on My Advice On Being A More Effective Blogger! (For another gem see her illustrated post on getting more [...]

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I’m Looking At You!

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this November 24th, 2007 10:11 pm

Fresa Tooned posted 24 Nov ‘07, 9.28pm MST PST on flickr
Messing with those photoshop filters again

Maybe this is the secret motto of Facebook? Google? Homeland Security (there is some kind of oxymoron there)? or just a hungry, curious beagle named Fresa…
Yes, this blogger is lazy, just slap posting photos from flickr.

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