Posts from ‘June, 2008’

It’s been frequently noted that the response effect of twitter is not a simple matter of opening an account and yelling for help; as a new tweeter you get the tree-falling silently effect. That said, I feel overwhelmingly fortunate to put out a single request and get a string of responses. With this, and despite [...]

Hordes of edubloggers and more are descending on San Antonio for the NECC 2008 show (“the National Educational Computing Conference, the world’s largest educational technology conference for teachers and technology coordinators”). They will be a’blogging, twittering, flickring, tagging, ning-ing… see Vicki Davis’ coverage plan via netvibes. Colleagues like Hey Jude Judy O’Connell are winging [...]

Setting Up Gigapan by cogdogblog posted 22 Jun ‘08, 8.37pm MDT PST on flickr
I set out today to give a test ride to a new camera device, the GigaPan, a computer controlled camera mount designed to make large detailed images of landscapes and such.
However, it;s a long story, but I am without my [...]

While swapping google map locations with my new buddy Rowan, I notice a few new buttons on Google Maps- you can now see embedded links to WikiPedia articles about places and links to photos (enable under the More button), plus there is a direct link to view a map location in Google Earth.
So being [...]

CDB readers know my affinity for stories of web serendipity; strange or wonderful connections made that otherwise would have not happened without this “internet” thing- here’s another gem.
I’ve forgotten where I first stumbled across on slideshare Power Point 20th Anniversary Cinderella. In 19 slides of lengthly bullet points, inscrutable charts, and exposition, it tells the [...]

The subtitle might be, “Curse You Twitter For Letting Me Down”. Or much worse than, “curse you”.
But actually, its more of a shrug. As much as I like poking fun at flickr’s flakiness, it does not cause me loss of sleep or hair, as pretty much it is not truly essential to me work/life. But [...]

No Blog No Read by cogdogblog posted 20 Jun ‘08, 9.11am MDT PST on flickr
With travel and being busy at the 2008 NMC Summer Conference, my blog posting sputtered off between June 7 and 14 with no posts, and my stats show the consequences.
Interesting as there is lag in readership? Peak was [...]

The Bridge by cogdogblog posted 28 Oct ‘07, 8.29pm MDT PST on flickr
Sydney

If you are in Sydney July 19, how about meeting up with myself and NMC colleagues Larry Johnson and Rachel Smith? We are traveling down under July 5-20 as we launch a new Horizon.au project with a meeting in Melbourne (a [...]

Button for Jim Groom by cogdogblog posted 15 Jun ‘08, 7.54pm MDT PST on flickr
Her ya go, Reverend Jim, fresh off the Photoshop machine, courtesy of a "punk rock saved my life" pin found at Wooden Shoes Books and Records on 4th Street in Philly.

As if we needed more blog fluff for edupunk, [...]

Just quickly came across a link to Wordle, a tag cloud generating site, which provides some interesting layout options for visual display of tag clouds- generated form text cut and paste into the tool or via a del.icio.us account.
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater [...]