Posts from ‘November, 2008’

Functional Simple Web Design by cogdogblog posted 27 Nov ‘08, 11.00pm MST PST on flickr
No frills, but in zero clicks, goingtorain.com/ gives you your local weather forecast (detects location via IP address).

Maybe it is the start of some new minimalistic zen of web design…
Linktribution to Mashable.com

4:00 PM by cogdogblog posted 27 Nov ‘08, 9.08am MST PST on flickr
That means another glorious aristict sunset in Iceland.

On this day of giving thanks, I give mine for this world, and all that it unveils, from a simple un-assuming sky, to unexpected treasures you were not asking for, to perhaps a [...]

I certainly have little interest in returning to school for more formal Edukashion, but if I did, I think I’d go back to 5th grade over grad school.
Following up on a recent connection to Chrissy H’s class in Bangkok, yesterday I had another opportunity to view an active elementary school classroom through my Skype window. [...]

In my everyday technology browsing I see a fair number of interesting tools, sites, ideas, that come my way via RSS, twitter, etc. A lot of them I give a quick look, say “Hmm”, tag ‘em, and move on.
Besides almost every post of unbelievable wizardry and in depth explanation of Tony Hirst, not often [...]

Wow, the new interface for Google Maps Streetview is very slick! It fills the entire map frame, and you get a spinny controller (like in Google Earth) to rotate your view, plus drag and clicking the mouses gives a tilt-pan effect. So you can zoom down streets! I decided to pay a visit to the [...]

Pushing the Day Out by cogdogblog posted 24 Nov ‘08, 6.26am MST PST on flickr
Bring me warmth and light to push out this cold Icelandic night…

Nothing like a glorious sunrise to get the week started off right (good and plentiful coffee are right up there as well).
One advantage of this time here in [...]

I have an idea how some rag tag blog army can storm the castle of the Walled Garden Content Horders and do some damage. Maybe. It is likely a dumb idea that someone will poke the Hummer sized holes in.
This just flickered n when I read Clarence Fisher’s Twitter gripe:

What he is saying is that [...]

How cool is this (and found via a tweet from Barbara Sawhill- twitterbution!)? Barbara Ganley splashes the New York Times on its story of Haste, Scorned: Blogging at a Snail’s Pace:

When Barbara Ganley wants to collect her thoughts, she walks in the Vermont countryside, wanders home and blogs about it. In a recent post, she [...]

George Siemens is fine despite his sparsely titled circa telegraph text post Need help in which he asks some super broad (yes important) questions:
I often hear educators talking about “education needs to change” (I do it too). This is the case for the K-12, higher education, and corporate training/education markets.
As a small research project, [...]

I can agree with all the positive acclaim for the archive of Life photographs Google is hosting. It is a vast archive of important historical moments.
What is striking me odd that is not strictly mentioned on this site is any statement on usage of the images. I looked high and low, and I am rather [...]