Posts from ‘July, 2008’

If the web is at 2.0, then listserv technology must be at a fractional decimal too small to bother writing.
I first experienced them around 1988 as a graduate student at Arizona State University- heck it was even before full internet, as my email address was on BITNET. I helped a prof administer a listerv [...]

As much as I like to poke fun at twitter’s reliable flakiness and curse the fail whale…

For inexplicable reasons, I stay. Again, twitter is not essential. My days go in fine with or without it. What value is it?
No… scratch all of that.
Twitter just saved me from a huge gaffe.
And it would have put web [...]

How about yet one more example of neat things that happen when you share your stuff? This is a photo I posted a month ago on flickr; it is a wooden drafting table my Dad had used back in the 1950s and after years of storage in an attic, I decided to re stain it:

Nothing [...]

Don’t ask why, but this snapshot I got a few weeks ago while Skyping with Bryan Alexander, or known to some as “Dr Nemo”

reminds me of the mashup I did a few years ago after meeting Doug Engelbart with a screen shot of him from the “Mother of All Demos”

Doesn’t Dr Nemo like rather futuristic? [...]

CogDogBlog Wordle by cogdogblog posted 1 Jul ‘08, 6.26pm MDT PST on flickr
Wordle is a way cool visualization tool for making gorgeous tag clouds form text. Like many people, I did the easy thing first- a wordle made from my del.icio.us tags and then played with a not so easy to use tool [...]

Make Fresa Number 1 on the Pet Charts! by cogdogblog posted 1 Jul ‘08, 11.28am MDT PST on flickr
I got a comment yesterday on a flickr photo of Fresa The Cute Beagle letting me know her photo was part of a contest at Purina!
Congratulations, your photo made the Pet Charts for 7/1/2008! Vote [...]

From more in the “where would we be without the web” department.
I was chatting with a friend about movies, not a subject I can dare seriously enter with series film freaks, but in talking about “obscure” foreign films, I was trying to remember the name of a Russian one I saw a few years [...]

I try not to begrudge what others do, but as much as I use (and talk about) mining flickr for creative commons licensed images, I dont know what to make of those who uses a photo sharing site to post photos All Rights Reserved?
Okay, I do begrudge.
But I dont spent much time there- what is [...]