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Stretched Out posted 12 Feb ‘08, 12.00am MST PST on flickr
Fresa uses my laptop bag for a pillow

Just to be clear, Fresa said, “Start blogging again” so the gates are opening….

It’s been about a week since I launched this year’s week of no blogging / only commenting. This is hardly an exact, precise activity, and I am honored by the wide range of incoming links (the non spam variety, of course).
So according to coComment, I posted 57 comments this week, admittedly a lot were on [...]

This is the third year I am doing my roughly annual tradition of taking a week with the blog posting on this site put on “mute” (or muzzle) as I will take all my writing to blog via the comment space of other sites. This is the notion of “comment blogging” I found long ago, [...]

It’s been a while since I barked about the clumsiness of LinkedIn but just had another one of those near deaths by lame interface design. But before that, i am still trying to fathom what LinkedIn offers beyond the ability to just link. It seems utterly recursive with no ending condition to stop the loop. [...]

January Crop of 366 photos posted 1 Feb ‘08, 10.20pm MST PST on flickr
One month down for the year’s pledge of 366 daily photos posted to flickr (plus one into February), 8.1% done!
This has been so much fun to do; making time and effort each day to think visually, and look for novel things [...]

My WiLD SeLF posted 1 Feb ‘08, 8.59pm MST PST on flickr
Attractive, eh? I made this with www.buildyourwildself.com/ a site apparently sponsored my the New York Zoo and Aquarium, more likely aimed at kids than people my age.
its a flash based avatar creation web app, you starte with basic choices of adding hair, [...]

This past tuesday was the official release of the NMC 2008 Horizon Report like we do every year at the EDUCAUSE ELI Conference (hey Chronicle, that is TUESDAY, JANUARY 29 2008!). The full report is available, for free, as a 256k Creative Commons sprinkled PDF. Please download and share pervasively.
As somewhat of an experiment, it [...]

If I am not President, I sure am on the Board of Directors of the Bryan Alexander Fan Club. So it becomes even more amazing when he wants to dine with me before his workshop and get feedback on his plans for the session he did at the EDUCAUSE ELI conference on Web 2.0 Storytelling.

Bryan [...]