CogBlogged from ‘June, 2008’

With my recent twitter screen shots I am showing my snark for sure. Yet, I am in no way advocating a rally for “let’s bail on twitter”. And to be honest, it really does not produce urine in my wheaties (as a variant of peeing in Cheerios for @fncil) when twitter goes down, out, or flying elephant. It serves as a wake uop call do to something productive ;-) So its been more as an experiment to see how the service works to try Ping.fm than some effort to be able to spread tweets everywhere. Ping.fm was created for the sole purpose of making it as easy as possible to share your posts with the world. Now you don’t have to fumble around the web in order to post anymore, you can just post once, and be done with it. The idea came about when making some posts to Twitter [...]

What to Do When You Can’t Get Your Twitter Fix by cogdogblog posted 7 Jun ’08, 6.07am MDT PST on flickr Newest thing to do whentwitterisdown.com Each click gives you a new idea… Like "Read a MF-ing book" Might be more fun that whentwitterisup.com thanks @mathplourde

Yawn, Twitter’s Down, Yawn… by cogdogblog posted 5 Jun ’08, 8.38pm MDT PST on flickr Hardly news, but at least the folks at twitter are not wasting time spell checking the error messages .I’m guessing a LOLCAT is at the keyboard. Twitter is currently down for We are quickly fixing some discrepancies across our webserves. Coming right back!. Roughly translated as "Twitter haz hairball n dadabaze"? But wait, there is hope! They now have an ETA: We expect to be back in about 1 hour. Thanks for your patience. Of course "in about an hour" from when? an hour ago? tomorrow? whenever? Easy potshots, yes, I know. Yeah, and crazy enough, I still love, want to be twittering. Nope, I am not jumping ship. As if we need loyalty to free addictive web sites that owe us nothing.

I Want a Woot Sticker by cogdogblog posted 5 Jun ’08, 8.34pm MDT PST on flickr Society for the Irrationally Exuberant I often feel irrationally exuberant, how do I apply?

50 Ways Audience by cogdogblog posted 5 Jun ’08, 8.32pm MDT PST on flickr A pretty big turn out at the University of Delaware to hear me blab about 50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story Wow, what a turnout today for my session at the University of Delaware on 50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story – they expected 100 and it looked like more. Since the media crew here was recording me and the screen t make a pod/vodcast, I did not bother with ustream-ing, so there should be a nice quality recording soon. With assistance from @mathplourde, the group participating in the Summer Faculty Institute were doing live commenting via CoverItLive. I tossed in a few different bits this time around, tried to cover a few more examples, and push more on the audience participation part– the prompt was, “The strangest thing happened to me [...]

In the midst of my regular daily mix of seeing what new things come into my antennae, I am reading the email update of Stephen’s OLDaily and stop my scan/scrolling– there it is, a familiar name: How Identity and Access Management Can Help Your Institution Touch Its Toes Kevin Morooney, EDUCAUSE Connect This presentation was both fascinating and infuriating. I really liked the style of presentation – page forward through it quickly – and I think the argument is well reasoned. But – it is well reasoned from an institutional perspective. Which make things like fingerprints sound reasonable. Wait a second! I went to high school with Kevin.. and I know he is currently the CIO at Penn State University. So I browse over to the EDUCAUSE abstract and read: Successful IT infrastructures and architectures are expected to nimbly provide the context for protecting and sharing information and identities. In [...]

Andy by cogdogblog posted 9 Jun ’07, 1.12pm MDT PST on flickr Andy Rush, I feel your pain! You anguish (not really) Seriously! Stop taking Edupunk so seriously and it sounds like you are feeling meme-deprived: Do you know what Jim posted about right before his seminal Edupunk meme (Jim says it’s not a meme, by the way) was born. He blogged about ME. What about me? How do I fit into Edupunk? Why didn’t I take off as a meme??? Seriously. And as one who has also worn tin foil in public, I offer your own meme, EDURUSH: I don’t believe in technology, I believe in Andy. And that’s why I don’t think our struggle is over the future of technology, it is over the struggle for the future of our culture that is assailed from all corners by the vultures of bad video codecs. Lossy web video formats [...]

Wow, very cool, very wow …. found on the Clutter Museum, comes this twitter fountain. I am not tossing in any eduP*** here, but just playing – with tweets on “Strawberry” and flickr photos tagged “cogdog”

You dont have to blog (or twitter) every 10 minutes… as long as when you do its meaningful. Greg Ritter posts maybe once or twice a month, and there was a time when the light at Ten Reasons Why was dark for like a year, but he shares some fabulous gems. Earlier this month he shared the link to the 50 Best Commercial Parodies which fed my nostalga as a teen growing up on SNL (in its first year, it was not even broadcast on Baltimore NBC’s station and I remember staying with the fuzzy signal from channel 4 in D.C.). And today, he shared what I think is one of the most brilliant creative ideas in a while; maybe it is a negative mashup? Check our garfield minus garfield in which the cat has been erased from the strips, revealing a disturbing personality of Jon: Who would have guessed [...]

To paraphrase an old favorite tongue-twister: A punk sat on a stump. The punk thunk the stump thunk, but the stump thunk the punk stunk My blog hat is humbly dipped to the east to Jim Groom for feverishly launching the spreading EDUPUNK meme (must be in all caps, eh). That photo is scary enough. And what could be more punk that getting EDUPUNK picked up on The Chronicle of Higher Education, though in true form, the Chronicle ends up with one wheel off the track crediting it to “a group of tech-savvy professors”. I’ve scanned a number of the blog posts and most are NOT written by “professors”. It always seems in the Chronicle lensed world there are two kinds of people- Professors and Everybody Else. But I digress. With some mixed bag responses. I’ve been traveling while the meme unfolded and doing more reading than writing, and must [...]