CogBlogged from ‘May, 2009’

Watch any YouTube video in a flowing stream of frame shots? Try Yooouuutuuube. It’s better seen than described- the spaced out version of Dominoe: linktribution to Mashable who thankfully do not obfuscate their post URLs with google feedproxy gunk in their RSS feeds

From TechCrunch comes Twitter Is Down: 15 Alternative Things To Do: Talk about Twitter being down on FriendFeed Talk about Twitter being down on Facebook Talk about Twitter being down over IM Leave a comment on a blog post about Twitter being down (preferably this one) Talk about Twitter being down via text message Talk about Twitter being down over email Tip TechCrunch that Twitter is down Write your own blog post about Twitter being down (for an example, see this blog post) Talk about Twitter being down on Pownce Plurk Talk about Twitter being down on Identi.ca Talk about Twitter being down internally on Yammer Think about Twitter being down Call an actual friend to talk about Twitter being down Invite an actual friend over to talk about Twitter being down Go outside And I already did number 15 before the Whale Failed.

New in Google Labs is an add-on for having embedded web search in your email space- this means while composing a message, there is right in the mail interface a search form. The results appear in a GChat pop-up/overlay, and the results can be directly inserted into your message. In this case, I am emailing my friend Cole a message, and need a URL for a site to share– I can search+find+insert all in the email composing window. So this saves having to tab over to another window, run a search, copy/paste the URL (especially since the one in Google Search results does not point to the actual URL, but a Google ByPassSnagSomeINfo URL). It’s Gggggggggreat!

I’ve been excited about the LiveScribe pen recorder since seeing it first at a meeting last January, and then magnified by the presentation by Joe Russo at the NMC 2009 Symposium on New Media & Learning. I’d not done much with it in a while, especially with the problems I had with the 1.0 Mac Desktop software, but noted a new version had been out a few weeks– and it (mostly) works well now. I have just uploaded by first “pencast” and the newest feature is the ability to embed this into another site. Right after I got the pen, I packed it for my trip to Vancouver for Northern Voice 2009. During my presentation on Say/Blog it in Pictures I did something smart- I gave it to someone who can actually draw well- Nancy White – who took some amazing notes in my LiveScribe notebook. But up to now [...]

Disaggregate.me by cogdogblog posted 6 May ’09, 8.39pm MDT PST on flickr Oh this is super petty, but in line of discussion of an un-related topic at Penn State yesterday- the need (or desire) for dis-aggregation. In this case, I just hate the wastefulness of hotel packaging of these coffee condiments. The black plastic sack on the left (waste) includes 2 sugars (waste- I am diabetic), one artificial sweetener (the one thing I want), a creamer (no need), a straw (I can stir with my finger, and a napkin (I can be neat). So once I grab my one item of interest, the pink packet, the rest go into the waste stream, to the landfill. So it is more efficient for the hotel to buy stuff I don’t use, put into the trash, than just to dis-aggregate the content to a level where I can select just what I will [...]

2009/365/125 Yeah That Lion by cogdogblog posted 5 May ’09, 7.36pm MDT PST on flickr After today’s presentations at Penn State, I walked around the corner, and stood face to face with Mr Nittany. Ironic as I borrowed him for the example story prompt in today’s talk on 50+ Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story. If I can remember the audience’s contributions, the story here involved Joe Paterno feeding the Lion some buckeyes (or Buckeyes), when Sue shows up with some orange spray paint, finally with an appearance of the police. (Hey, it was the audience that made this up, not me!). Their homework is to devise an ending to the story. If I stay any more days at Penn State University, I will end up gushing every day about the innovation and quest for excellence in teaching I have sense here. Like the big powerful mascot it has, [...]

2009/365/123 Scoping Out Old Main by cogdogblog posted 3 May ’09, 2.49pm MDT PST on flickr Penn State University- a lovely campus even on a grey rainy day. In a 3 day visit it’s not even close to possible to take in a place like Penn State University. I’d like to say there is a big purpose on this blog post (actually that is an every day wish), but to be honest, this blog is going to show up in my presentation today, and I want to have a contextually relevant post. Oops, I keep violating that rule to not blog about blogging. I’ll blog more on that next Tuesday. This visit has a multitude of purposes, one to hang out with my best friend from Mr Murray’s 9th grade Biology class (the losers at Milford Mill who got in the section where they did dissect

Today was a full on day at the opening end of a 2 week road dog trip around New England. Yesterday I flew into Newark, and did the train into New York for today’s fantastic experience at the Annual Symposium on Communication and Communication Intensive Instruction at Baruch College, thanks to a generous invitation form Mikhail Gershovich to be a workshop presenter. Today’s events deserve a full blog post (hopefully coming next), but this was the first in a series of re-presenting 50+ Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story, which I am a bit worried as becoming one of these road show presenter types as it will be 2 years old in July. But there is some new life; A few tools are retired (JumpCut, Zude, Flektor, Thumbstacks), but added even more- PhotoPeach, Tikatok, Tar Heel Reader, Pixton, and the exciting and first and maybe nauseating later– prezi (I [...]