Posts from ‘January, 2009’

Just stumbled across aMap, a little web app for setting up polarized discussions that can be done in a little map form, or as they say:

aMap is short for ‘argument map’. The idea’s very simple – to promote the art of arguing by mapping out complex debates in a simple visual format.
Sure you [...]

sick by cutglassdecanter posted 30 Nov ‘05, 2.56am MST PST on flickr
oh man did I find this here? I dont remember been there. bwwwwaaaap.

There are googles of sites telling you how to blog, but I’ve not come across a secret strategy I have been hesitant to share, and I was actually mostly unaware [...]

Note: This is mostly meant in jest to point out how religious we tend to get with our tools and even more so to play with the image below. Several people will react viscerally to my assertions. Please take this with a giant grain of NaCl. A does of Snark. All of this is based [...]

Rainbow over Skinnhufa by cogdogblog posted 3 Nov ‘08, 2.28pm MST PST on flickr
This morning’s mixed skies here in Iceland had both sun and rain… and sun and rain and sun and rain.

Over the course of regularly complaining here about companies that get under my fur, it is incumbent upon me (wow, I [...]

Carl and Bryan by cogdogblog posted 22 Jan ‘09, 3.30pm MST PST on flickr

I am long privileged to know and exchange ideas with Carl Berger, and am glad I did not sleep in this morning for his 8am presentation (he joked about the attendance similar to an 8am lecture) on the last day [...]

Listen to the Reverend! by cogdogblog posted 22 Jan ‘09, 3.29pm MST PST on flickr
Jim Groom gets the crowd rolicking at our ELI session on "Not your Grandpa’s Blog" eli2009.wordpress.com

This dog’s cog’s are wogged so the blogs are back logged.
The EDUCAUSE/ELI conference this week continues to demonstrate it as a prime gathering for [...]

Please do not give me an idea that CDB is anything of importance. To the 4 of so nice people who have written nice emails asking me to blog about their nice websites… well thanks but I don’t blog requests. I may look at them but I blog whatever I feel like.
Please let me know [...]

Got Snark by cogdogblog posted 6 Jan ‘09, 11.10pm MST PST on flickr
Today Amazon delivered my copy of Snark — "It’s Mean, It’s Personal, and It’s Ruining Our Conversation"
Oh dear. I thought this book would be celebrating my beloved state of mind, but nooo….
In this sharp and witty polemic, New Yorker [...]

Black Gold Direct From Brazil by cogdogblog posted 17 Jan ‘09, 9.50am MST PST on flickr
What a gracious thing Carla did after leaving a comment on my breakfast photo- she offered to send me some favorite dark coffees from Brazil, and here they are on my porch in Strawberry, Arizona (better daylight for [...]

You Do What You Have to Do by cogdogblog posted 14 Jan ‘09, 10.37pm MST PST on flickr
Driving down to Phoenix tonight I stopped at a local Circle-K for some coffee and bottled water. I was surprised that the guy at the check out register was Dave, the guy I usually see [...]