Posts from ‘October, 2008’

Just got word via the tweetvine from Dave Lester that the first ever WordCamp Ed (WordCamp Education) is happening in Washington, DC, on November 22 at George Mason University.

WordCamp Ed is a WordCamp focused entirely on educational uses WordPress — in schools and universities. The inaugural WordCamp Ed will be held at George Mason [...]

photo credit: jespis (a.k.a. Friends Friends Friend)
Like Leigh and many others (apparently “a hundred thousand” people), I got a Dear John letter from Eyespot announcing their departure from the video editing/publishing service.
It’s not all that surprising; what is surprising that there are not more Web 2.0 dead sites, at least ones that will let [...]

Asia Express by cogdogblog posted 8 Oct ‘08, 2.31am MDT PST on flickr
This is what the three previous weeks seemed like with my jaunt to Shangai, Hong Kong, and Japan.

One tired dog.
That worked out to be approximately

photos per day. I’ve plopped them into a single flickr slideshow.
Well, depending how how want to [...]

That’s My Photo!! by cogdogblog posted 8 Oct ‘08, 2.33am MDT PST on flickr
A new round of self back-patting! One of my flickr photos is part of a museum exhibit… I got a flickr email request a few weeks back from a designer who asked to use one of my photos in part [...]

I did not discover the barfing flickr panda just followe dlinks in my gReader from sites like Mashable. The panda provides a different way to Explore flickr, the 500 most “interesting” photos as identified by the magical algorithm. The Panda just seems to be a new way to vew them; just sit and watch as [...]

Familar Photo in Flickr Search Results by cogdogblog posted 7 Oct ‘08, 4.39pm MDT PST on flickr
How weird it is to be in search of a flickr image for a post, and seeing your own photo show up? I have been using compfight for my cc image search, and a recent search on [...]

cc licensed flickr photo by laffy4k
Dear @KathySierra,
I realize that you are, like, a big internet A-list star with lots to do and horses to tend, but am a bit saddened my twitter direct message to you has not generated a reply. We are really, really, really interested in enticing you to keynote at the [...]

A bit late, but right before boarding my plane form Osaka, I uploaded as an annotated flickr set the slides I used for my “10 Minute TED style” talk at Learning 2.008

The premise is we all know the Internet is “big” but forget how dwarfing a scale it is to an individual, drawing the parallel [...]

Community Weed Picking by cogdogblog posted 5 Oct ‘08, 1.11am MDT PST on flickr
As I was waiting for the airport shuttle van, my friend and host here in Japan, Bert, pointed out one more item of Japanese culture- posted in the notice board of his apartment is a flyer letting him know when [...]

Traditional Korean Food by savagecorp posted 20 Jun ‘05, 9.40pm MDT PST on flickr
Main Soup Dish and 23 sides to nibble on.

Sometime later this month will mark the 15th year I have been on the web. Every since sly Jim Walters at phoenix College handed my a floppy disk (showing my age [...]