Posts from ‘April, 2009’

My colleague Rachel Smith presented a nice little WordPress challenge to re-create what she had done previously as old skool manual HTML page updating into her WordPress blog (see Postcards back through time). In the spirit of previous documentation of WordPress Theme hacking, here is the under the hood things I did, some variations on [...]

cc licensed flickr photo by me! (do I need to attribute myself? will I sue myself?
This was not the photo I wished I had taken at Northern Voice 2009. There was a moment in the back of the auditorium, during one of the big keynote sessions, when I glance at all the open laptops- more [...]

mashup of cc licensed flickr photos Arizona State Goes Solar by kevindooley and my own Black is the Old T-Shirt
Beyond the handpawful of petty blog posts about my beefs with various service providers, CogDogBlog has stayed cleared of anything important in the world. Maybe it’s time, or the times, or advancing time, but gnawing at [...]

Help!
Please.

I am taking 50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story on a spurt of road shows over next 2 months- Barcuch College, Penn State University, Salem State College, and online version for Wooster College, and then a session at Ed-Media.
Gulp, am I becoming one of those shlock presenters that milks a show til it [...]

cc licensed flickr photo by Zervas
One can hardly read a twitter stream these days without tripping over a boat load of hash tags (for those knot sure of what twitter is or what hash tags are, please go check out Oprah or some other oracle, I am not feeling like explaining everything…).
First of all, I [...]

C’mon twitter people, you are liming up zombie lemmings marching off the cliff. I see a stream of people in my stream tweeting something from a site boasting that they were in twitter before @Oprah.
Monkey see, monkey click, monkey tweet.
So there is a simple box on the site http://herebeforeoprah.com. In theory, you enter your [...]

cc licensed flickr photo by Wade from Oklahoma
… in which the technology blog author bares his ignorance by discovering a tool that is several years old….
With a new sense of urgency, I implore that some big web company buy and save Yahoo– if not just to preserve the most valuable important vital web 2.0 app [...]

If I was tweeting this, I might make up a silly hash tag like
#CoolNewTechnologyIJustFoundThatsBeenOutForEons
I use Gmail extensively, got my CogDogness, as well as over the last few weeks, I have ditched the desktop email client and using the Gmail version of our NMC Google Apps email. By finding my oldest Gmail message, I’ve been [...]

Zamzar is a very powerful striped cone-headed frog….

Actually Zamzar is a very handy, web-base, free tool for converting files – different types of graphics, audio or document files (dealing with those infernal Microsoft Office *.docx or *.pptx file types). You upload a file, and Zamzar the Wonder Converter emails you later with a link for [...]

Nice guys by Sebastián-Dario posted 26 Oct ‘08, 7.57pm MDT PST on flickr
Cachorritos de Lila

You can hardly glance at twitter or open your RSS feeds these days without reading about zombies. WTF?
Lumbering flesheaters are somehow fashionable?
Time magazine gushes about them. The New York Times loves ‘em. Jane Austen now embraces them. Education [...]