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Which Web Might This Be? posted 24 Nov ‘07, 9.28pm MST PST on flickr
I really thought the weaver was Sir Tim Berners-Lee…

This book in the Pine, Arizona Senior Center Thrift Store (one of the finest anywhere) caught me eye. Actually I think it was about Chinese herbal medicine, but a little cropping, and I [...]

Morning Bacn posted 23 Nov ‘07, 6.30am MST PST on flickr
Thanks Facebook, for the hefty morning meal of bacn.

All these extra calories after Thanksgiving are making me want to auuughhhhhtttthhhhpffffhhhhhhh.

I’m somebody now! Millions of people look at this web site everyday! This is the kind of spontaneous publicity - your name in a wiki - that makes people. I’m in Wikipedia! Things are going to start happening to me now.
apologies to Steve Martin…
Don’t ask why, well I was bored, and looked for myself [...]

Google Search Error- Who Me? Spyware? posted 20 Nov ‘07, 11.16am MST PST on flickr
A new response on a Google search. It seems the 3 words I submitted are associated with spyware? If they had included some http client detection, they might have surmised my operating system makes this extremely unlikely.
Want to play? I [...]

Since in my Being There presentation I blabbed about being “open” and looking at new tools from the “inside” I am trying my best to hold those attitudes while looking at what is becoming the juggernaut of Facebook. I’m feeling a bit slow to warm to it and looking for some heat.
Facebook just seems a [...]

This story is old news if you followed my trail last month through Australia. Being up in our cabin again in Strawberry, Arizona, and seeing flowers till blooming in mid November (global warming is hot here) got me thinking again about the most amazing example of web serendipity that happened in Tasmania. Its one of [...]

Thanks to Marlene from Adelaide for locating what may be the ancestral grounds of CogDogBlog- a place called Cobdogla.

With a population of 273 Cobdoglians, this place is described:
The tongue-twistingly named Cobdogla (an Aboriginal word meaning “land of plenty”) has a fascinating history. Much of the land hereabouts – from west of Overland Corner right [...]

Ugh, will this one ever end? I decided to create an audio narrated slidecast of my 50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story, using the audio I recorded when I did the presentation at the 2007 NMC Regional Conference at Tulane. It took a bit more time, as I had to grab screenshots, stuff [...]

I use tihs line in several presentations. “Whenever some technology ‘expert’ (hey like me) gets up here and tells you that a technology will ’save you time’ that should raise your red flags. This is a codeword for ‘I am lying and blowing smoke’”.
It is a Big Lie. The Technology itself will not save you [...]

With a month’s training lost to illness and travel, I am finally back into the groove prepping to run the January 13 PF Chang’s Marathon (see how much I love running). This means I need heavy distractions, like music, as well as the occasional podcast. I am not subscribed to anything in particular, and mostly [...]