Posts from ‘May, 2008’

I’m just back from a 3 day visit to St Paul for the Midwest Library Technology Conference hosted at Macalester College.
This was the first time for this conference, and with attendance well over 250 and from the level of activity I observed, planner Ron Joslin and colleagues should be very pleased. I liked very [...]

Follow Kokopelli to Starbucks! by cogdogblog posted 27 May ‘08, 4.58pm MDT PST on flickr
Mesmerized by the sounds of his flute, you order a triple latte venti… again.
The World’s Largest Kokopelli pipes his way in Camp Verde, Arizona
www.worldslargestthings.com/arizona/kokopelli.htm

This one’s for you, my coffee monopoly hating friend.
FYI, I marched over to the [...]

You Are Mere Plankton for a Whale of a Twitter by cogdogblog posted 27 May ‘08, 4.05pm MDT PST on flickr
So twitter is still borked, but they have spent time changing the graphics that lets you know they are borked.
And worse, my fellow plankton — it is now our fault: "Too many tweets!"
how [...]

It registers a Spock-like eyebrow raise when the folks at Mashable.com are wowed by a new tool, so check out Tag Galaxy. This is a visually engaging tool to explore flickr photos by tags. That alone does not say much, but what this site does is create a planetary like display for showing how tags [...]

A few weeks ago I came across a nifty new web embedded quiz tool on Steve Dembo’s site – his edublogger quiz was rather thorough, and is worth seeing how well you know your fellow bloggers.
Steve made this quiz with MyStudiyo which who knows, may become the YouTube for multiple choice quizzes?

It offers you templates [...]

Nings are everywhere. I’m not necessarily writing here about the virtue (or not) of the build your own social network tool. I’m in a few Nings, and technically/design-wise they have come along way from some of the first ones I recall 3 or 4 years ago when they first came out.
No, these is a [...]

The psychic should know… by designwallah posted 14 Apr ‘08, 10.41pm MDT PST on flickr
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Twitter has had a recent nasty string of outages, technical gaffs. Ouch, poor little blue birdie. While I have taken my cheap shots at them, I am liking pondering why, in the fickle fast pace high expectations web 2.0 days we live in (and knowing the “we” there is perhaps not all that inclusive of [...]

Google’s genesis was in well executed back-end server stuff (those precious search algorithms, they KO-d Altravista, Yahoo, Lycos) and at the time of ad-cluttered busy sites, it’s stark simplicity design of plain text, one colorful logo, on a white background was the antidote to the web status quo.
But hey, its 2008, and there is [...]

TentCam

Originally uploaded by cogdogblog

Back in the day when I was a free wheeling no responsibility grad student herein Arizona, I spent a lot of time doing solo backpack trips, especially out in the Superstition Wilderness Area and up on the Mogollon Rim.
It sure seemed time to get back to nature, and my equipment needed [...]