CogBlogged from ‘February, 2009’

Can’t Get No Bava by cogdogblog posted 28 Feb ’09, 9.09pm MST PST on flickr Jeez, Rev, pull back on the accelerator, will ya?

2009/365/58: One Turntable by cogdogblog posted 27 Feb ’09, 10.38pm MST PST on flickr Baylor University Ray I. Riley Digitization Center. I got a nice tour today of their equipment. See www.baylormag.com/story.php?story=006232 This is a special audio lab set up for the The Black Gospel Music Restoration Project contentdm.baylor.edu/cdm4/index_03gospel.php?CISOROOT=/03… Gardner Campbell, my host, had a spiritual moment talking audio tech with the sound engineer here. I had a fantabulous time here at Baylor University today, including tours with thew facilities of the Electronic Library team, and notable the high end equipment being put to use in the Ray I. Riley Digitization Center. We got to see some of the existing labs, electronic classrooms, video/graphic production suite, video conferencing rooms. It was no big deal, but apparently getting access to the wireless network requires an appeal to a higher power I lack. Gardner heroically submitted paper work, I showed my ID [...]

2009/365/55: Presenter/Bar View by cogdogblog posted 24 Feb ’09, 9.43pm MST PST on flickr The topic of the presentation I did today for the EDUCAUSE Southwest Regional Conference with Susan Zvacek (University of Kansas) was Balancing Acts: Making IT Work for Everyone. We took an alt presentation route to present this via a three act "play" a script of semi-ficticious scripts we wrote meant to highlight some of the conflicts that happen within IT organizations or between them and other parts of an academic unit. So our "set" was supposed to be a bar at some conference where people have the "real" conversations. The super cheesy Star Wars credit effect video sequence described the scene www.youtube.com/watch?v=S00beACyHtU I did not get the fully stocked bar I had requested. Oh well. LiveScribe recorded audio available at cogdogblog.com/wp-content/audio/swrc09-balancing-act.mp3 I’m still not sure to make of how this “where was that damned box” presentation [...]

August 30th–It’s True. by Jessica DeWinter posted 7 Sep ’07, 2.22am MDT PST on flickr Freed from the shackles of corporate America. Hah, not what you think. Not that I *know* what you think. One of the interesting re-threads I heard at Northern Voice this year was the navel gazing equivalency of blogging about blogging, blogging about not blogging, etc. So I am not going to blog about my manufactured excuses for not blogging much at Northern Voice, not really even doing much of my VoiceThread version either. Nope, am I blogging about not blogging? At one time I had a compulsion to provide “Coverage” at conferences- blog sessions, photos, post audio, my my gawd, that gets tiring and I am not a great stenographer. And at the same time I am not blogging, Reverence Jim has amped up his blog machine to crank out 5, 7 posts a day. [...]

Nancy LiveScribed Me! by cogdogblog posted 22 Feb ’09, 11.25am MST PST on flickr Mucho gracias to Nancy White for using my new LiveScribe pen to record audio and graphic notes of my Say/Blog It With Pictures session at Northern Voice. The pen records the audio: cogdogblog.com/wp-content/audio/nv09.mp3 and in the micro-dot notebook synchronizes each pen stroke to the audio spoken at time it was written, so rather than having to take stenographic monk-like verbatim notes, you can do highlights, or graphics. The LiveScribe software on the Mac is woefully pre-beta-ish; ultimately, it will be able to publish the package as a flash media piece that plays back the notes with sound. Here is a Photoshopped collage of Nancy’s beautiful notes. Thanks ChocoNancy! http://cogdogblog.com/stuff/nv09 While building the MediaRSS files by hand is rather tedious, I am excited about more use of CoolIris. I am thinking of perhaps a simple Google Spreadsheet [...]

I may be pre-emptive, but am hoping again to try blogging the Northern Voice conference experience in images and audio using VoiceThread, like I did last year. Uploaded images (or ones sucked in from flickr) can then easily be augmented with audio, and if you create a free VT account, you can chime in as well. You can find this year’s version at http://voicethread.com/share/355040/ I also have another new toy to try in the mix, but am keeping this one secret until I try it. I’m looking for Mooses blogging!

2009/365/47: Facebook FAIL by cogdogblog posted 16 Feb ’09, 10.05pm MST PST on flickr Even before the rounds of flack today. about Facebook’s Terms of Services, I’ve contended that Facebook is Stingybook with media — it will suck in your media (flickr, YouTube) etc, do with it what it wants, and then it does not allow any media held within to be so freely accessed from outside apps. And even more problematic, it creates its own set of usage rights based not on sensible systems like Creative Commons, but Facebook groups, friends, etc. So here is my acid test. This is my photo on flickr, licensed as Non Commercial-Share Alike-By Attribution. If Facebook shares, makes copies of my photo, without the same license, isn’t it not complying? In addition, tonight, I deleted some 30 photos I had uploaded to StingyFacebook. They can re-purpose and own my crappy status messages, but [...]

Underwater Camera Fun by Noel back in Zurich posted 23 Mar ’08, 2.45pm MDT PST on flickr My week of no blog and commenting elsewhere has passed, although with most of the week being travel and NMC meetings and then fun at Mardi Gras, I really did not get out as much and spread the comment love. It’s a bit of a gimmicky thing; I find it useful on this yearly timeline to do the number crunching and look at the comment stats here, but really, the commenting elsewhere ought to be a regular activity, not a once a year special. The tracking by co-comment is spotty at best; it does not come up automatically on flickr like it did last year (where I do a lot of commenting), it barfed on the comment fields on the NMC drupal site, and of course, it did not pick up on comments [...]

flickr cc licensed photo by This Year’s Love. Starting tonight (Sunday February 8), the light is OFF for CogDogBlog regular posts, the muzzle is self applied for my own traditional of taking a week of not blogging to spend time writing in the comment spaces of other people’s blogs, as I have done in 2006, 2007, and 2008. So no new blog posts here shall appear until after February 15. Of course, this stretch includes two multi-pronged travel trips, including, ironically, the 2009 Northern Voice Conference. A blogging conference. I will continue to post photos and act blog-like in flickr, plus keeping the twitter spray turned on full blast. I am also toying with using VoiceThread again to blog at Northern Voice like I did last year. As in past years, I hope to find this invigorating and also to sample some blogs I’ve not read much, but mostly to [...]

Red Alert! DEFCON 2! NOT by cogdogblog posted 7 Feb ’09, 9.56am MST PST on flickr It brightens my day when magazines (who are like the dinosaurs at 30 minutes before the end of the Cretaceous period admiring themselves in the mirror) assume I am a moron. Not. I’ve been getting this "urgent" mailing from MacWorld starting a month ago. "Your subscription ot MacWorld is due to expire… So now is the time to renew your subscription! Why now? Because that allows us time to process your order, prepare mailing labels, and allow for uninterrupted delivery of MacWorld… But we must hear from you right away to guarantee that you don’t miss an issue between your current subscription and your renewal". Urgent! Urgent! Wait. Today is February 6, 2009. On my renewal card it shows my subscription runs through June 2009. That is urgent. It takes 4 months to "process [...]