Posts from ‘October, 2008’

My iPhone excitement is nothing new here, given how long it took me to get one, but there is wave after wave of discovery of new things, I am forgetting I have only had it for 2 months.
But last night… I found an app that is, to me, explosive, in terms of opening potential [...]

Telegraph Hill Tilt Shift by cogdogblog posted 19 Oct ‘08, 12.10am MDT PST on flickr
Inspired by a link from kotke to the Fenway Park "Model", I experimented with the Fake Model method. Essentially it is a PhotoShop play of careful gradient selection and lens blur to create effects that convert real photos to [...]

Twitter: the music video- A great compendium of visual message about twitter by Martin Weller, its uses, not, and groovy music by Death Cab Cutie I Will Posses your Heart

For more fun catch Martin’s EduPunk video
Hee fun to see my Twitter Life Cycle in the mix.

I flipped to Academia.edu after reading one blogger referring to it as “Facebook for Academia” and while it has a few FB-like features (updates) I could not think of a more opposite description for a social network.

My analysis here is admittedly first impressions and shallow What it seems to provide is a social [...]

A japanese houseplant has its own blog, and updates it on a regular basis:

If houseplants could blog, what would they say? To find out, Kamakura-based IT company KAYAC Co., Ltd. has developed a sophisticated botanical interface system that lets plants post their thoughts online. A succulent Sweetheart Hoya (Hoya kerii) named “Midori-san” is now using [...]

PhotoSynth Strike Two by cogdogblog posted 14 Oct ‘08, 11.32pm MDT PST on flickr
After my first miserable attempt to create a PhotoSynth in my living room, I sat down and read the RTFM, took 300 photos, but only got to 70% synthy. Needed more angles and connectors.
This one took 2.5 hours.
See [...]

With travel, work-load, and self-imposed laziness, I maintain my firm position on the very far edges of participation in the Connectivism & Connective Knowledge. But as I intuit from the Stephen and George show, that really does not matter, and we need to get over that.
photo credit: Pulpolux !!!
Week 6 is Complexity, Chaos and [...]

Photosynth was one of those “cool demos I saw and bookmarked for later” that I was recently nudged to go back and look at– this week I saw a very cool scene created by the folks at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
In a nutshell, PhotoSynth magically creates a navigable scene that lets you move [...]

Show me the money by Kees (km-fotografie.nl) posted 20 Mar ‘08, 10.37am MDT PST on flickr
This exhibition shows the full contract from – if I remember it wel – a Swiss Bank for lending out money to the museum. Behind every page is a light source. In the middle (where my friend [...]

The Future is Here? by cogdogblog posted 24 Sep ‘08, 7.11pm MDT PST on flickr

Spotted on the streets of Hong Kong, I am pretty sure in peeking in the window I saw lots of “Connectivism in a Box” Go George Go!