Buried Bones (Archive) for June, 2008

Flickr Wordle

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this June 29th, 2008 8:32 pm

Flickr Wordle by cogdogblog posted 29 Jun ‘08, 9.26pm MDT PST on flickr
Everybody and their mother blogger has noted Wordle, the lovely tag generator. I thigk I was one of the first to note it, but hey, who gives a flying fart about being web first except blog-o–ego-maniacs.
Okay I was just google chatting [...]

more »»

Nigerian Spam Referencing Nigerian Spam

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this June 29th, 2008 3:21 pm

I only like email spam when it is creatively subtle in cleverness– this one comes close.
In this sneaky approach, the email references victims of Nigerian spammers with a supposed offer to submit for reimbursement courtesy of the government of Nigeria and the United Nations. So if you were really moronic enough to fall for [...]

more »»

Visualizing Twitterness with TwitArcs

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this June 28th, 2008 7:21 am

Here’s another interesting tool for visualizing relationships in twitter, Jeff Clark’s TwitArcs:
I’ve combined some visuals from a side project related to linguistics with twitter data to create TwitArcs. It takes the latest 100 tweets for a twitter ID or term of interest and creates a list representation that has arcs connecting messages sent to the [...]

more »»

Track Satellites on the Web

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this June 27th, 2008 3:48 pm

Real Time Satellite and Space Shuttle Tracking by cogdogblog posted 27 Jun ‘08, 4.45pm MDT PST on flickr
Nifty site for getting info about satellites and tracking them in real time on a google map. This shows locations of GPS satellites and my home location.
www.n2yo.com/

more »»

You Had Me at “China”

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this June 27th, 2008 1:15 am

It is an understatement, but I was extremely ecstatic when I got an email in January from Jeff Utecht asking me if I’d be interested in speaking at the Learning 2.008 Conference in Shanghai. Must details got fuzzy as I thought about going to China.
So I paused an appropriate amount of milliseconds before [...]

more »»

Please No, Not Ms. Gesler!

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this June 27th, 2008 12:48 am

I love the cleverness of Ken Rodoff’s description of the teacher you don’t want to be in “an unexamined summer“. I’d say more, but don’t want to give it away.
linkribution across the seas to Graham Wegner

more »»

Gigapanning Sedona

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this June 27th, 2008 12:43 am

After waiting for a replacement camera battery and a new 8 Gb memory card, I was eager to try out a first Gigapan image. I was introduced to this nifty technology by Keene Haywood at University of Texas, Austin; since Keene knows the developer of the robotic camera control developed by CharmedLabs, he got me [...]

more »»

Down Under in Strawberry

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this June 25th, 2008 7:34 am

Captain Westley by cogdogblog posted 30 Oct ‘07, 10.50am MDT PST on flickr
Westley organized a great way to end my trip with this rowing expedition in the Sydney Harbour

I’m headed down to the Phoenix airport to pick up my friend/colleague Westley Field who I got to know last October during the Australia tour. [...]

more »»

WordPress Alchemy- Blog in a Blog

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this June 25th, 2008 6:28 am

In the vein of last February’s WordPress Dissection where I detailed the ripping apart and patching together of a WP template, here’s another bit if funny business I recently did in my favorite technology tool.
More or less, I have a main WP site, with a nested second complete WP site sitting inside of it, yet [...]

more »»

A World Made of Web 2.0

Alan Levine aka CogDog barked this June 24th, 2008 8:52 am

For people who mock web 2.0 (heck that includes me), look- you can make a world out of all of those logos! See the Map of the World 2.0, made of 1001 web app logos. This comes from AppAppeal a site that catalogs and reviews web 2.0 sites.

See you can do something useful with web [...]

more »»

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License
and may be patrolled by a friendly small dog (with a wagging tail)
This means you are free to use any original content published here (begs the question why)
as long as you provide linktribution.

.
Clicky Web Analytics