CogDogBlog

In my continued exploration of new technologies, I am looking at a new compact, portable, cheap, information device that may offer a lot of potential for not only education, but society in general. Use of it requires almost no electricity! It offers in depth amounts of information in a refreshingly simple user interface that is [...]

Dancer by cogdogblog posted 20 Jul ‘08, 11.34pm MDT PST on flickr
Its CogDog and friends night gathering at Almustafa, a fab Lebanese restaurant in Sydney

Leaving Sydney in style…
Actually the last night in Sydney was two nights ago… or tomorrow…. or I am #*&ing tired of trying to get time zones sorted out. It [...]

Us Americans Appreciate the Traffic Help by cogdogblog posted 18 Jul ‘08, 1.18am MDT PST on flickr
Look Right! There is a car!

Even after 2 weeks in Australia, I remain confused at traffic crossings- yesterday I cam oh so close to stepping in front of a fast moving bus. The horn blew and [...]

If you are in Sydney on Saturday and game to play dodge the pilgrammage crowd game, then join me and my NMC colleagues for a walk somewhere on a beach or around the harbor… er “harbour”. That’s th eplace with the funky curve building. I think they do art stuff there or maybe it [...]

Since I am just started playing with taking gigapan images, I was eager to experiment with the device on the trip here in Australia. I dont have fancy case for the thing- I am carting it around in the foam padded cardboard box it got sent to me. I am carrying it in my old [...]

State of the Web 2008 by cogdogblog posted 9 Jul ‘08, 11.32pm MDT PST on flickr
What a great presentation of web trends, with extra snark!
0at.org/summer-2008.html
"This was created on a cloudy afternoon in Seattle by Matthew Inman of 0at.org"
linktribution to the Shifted Librarian

fun fun fun

Meeting Leigh by cogdogblog posted 9 Jul ‘08, 1.33pm MDT PST on flickr
At the welcome dinner for Horizon.au, I finnaly got to meet in person, Leigh Blackall… now I am more eager to find my way back to New Zealand.

dirty wet rag by norwichforlife posted 11 Apr ‘07, 8.26pm MDT PST on flickr
norwich state

Dispatch for Melbourne Australia, Monday July 7- Just arriving here in Australia has been both exciting and exhausting. I’ve done the long leg flights several times now (LA to Sydney and the marathon, LA to Melbourne) and am glad [...]

On July 5, while most of America is recovering form whatever it is they do to themselves the day before, I’ll be strapped into a plane 15 hours to fly to Australia. Yes, despite whatever happened, whomever I coughed on, on my visit there last October they are letting me come back.
modified from creative [...]

I’m not sure what to call the breed of web tools that enable you to draw in content from other web X.0 sites automatically– some call them lifestream (maybe not, wikipedia lands you somewhere else) more like http://lifestreamblog.com/.
Swurl is a new one and I am liking its elegance. I get my requisite custom URL and [...]