Posts from ‘November, 2008’

Twitter Timeout by cogdogblog posted 16 Nov ‘08, 10.02am MST PST on flickr
and stop reloading, damnit! You are hurtin’ the tubes!

You know much little grades really mean to what we know/can do, but long-time colleague Liz tweeted me my TwitterGrade and then followed up with data of overwhelming stomping of Guy Kawaski:

So we can put a lot of faith into a mystery metric, but what the heck? I’ll roll with it.

Take that @guykawasaki and your [...]

Aloneness or Lonliness? by cogdogblog posted 16 Nov ‘08, 4.54am MST PST on flickr
Perhaps it is a fine line, but as a very sparsely populated, expansive– and moving into winter– dark place, Iceland can offer you plenty of time, space for reflective alone time… or toss you into an abyss of isolation.
My measure [...]

iPhone iFlute! by cogdogblog posted 16 Nov ‘08, 4.22am MST PST on flickr
Yet another day passes and its another utterly amazing iPhone app. Ocarina is a musical instrument, and you play by holding it horizontal and blowing into the microphone (indicated by yellow arrow) You then place your finders on the dots, and [...]

Here is Proof! I Created YouTube by cogdogblog posted 14 Nov ‘08, 8.13am MST PST on flickr
The heck with the flimsy claim of Herbert Elwood Gilliland III who says he was the fourth You Tube inventor — I have videotape proof of me sketching out the concept in 1979 (it is the second [...]

Getting a PhDDD! by cogdogblog posted 14 Nov ‘08, 8.35am MST PST on flickr
And they say spam is a problem! I am so excited!
I like the sounds of this program:
No Exams/Books/Tests/Interview/classes
100% No Pre-School qualifícation requìred!
And best of all, I "can even becomêe a doctor and receíve All [...]

modified from cc flickr photo by JTony
I want a law named after me Call this CogDog’s Law of Web Tools:
The “best” tool is the one I am currently using the most.
This played out earlier this week during Howard Rheingold’s session for the CCK08 session. While he was talking about his new social media [...]

It’s been a fruitful reading of those so-called dead blog scrolls this week– Scott Leslie has liad out a strong missive in Planning to Share versus Just Sharing and just across the bay from Scott (well farther this month), Brian Lamb is posing some tough questions like Am I missing the point on open educational [...]

On updating my 50+ Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story site, I am trying to fill in more examples where I was lacking more than just my repeated Dominoe Story.
In Looking for ones created with the comic tool gnomz (which are pretty sparse) I dug way back and found one D’Arcy did in [...]

Thanks to a curious click form a Tony Hirst tweet, I briefly whizzed by xtranormal an interesting web app for creating/directing/producing/gaffering your own virtual movies:
Xtranormal’s mission is to bring movie-making to the people. Everyone watches movies and we believe everyone can make movies. Movie-making, short and long, online and on-screen, private and public, will be [...]