Posts from ‘July, 2009’

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I’m almost done the first round of video editing prep for Amazing Stories of Openness for the OpenEd conference. Going well.
My plan during my presentation is to give context of each video I have acquired, and play a short clip, but provide the full interview clip as [...]

It’s possible there’s more out there than I know, but I see social media apps that offer great models for connecting people with similar interests, but wonder where is that for education? Today, I came across Micro.Vois– a simple idea that seems elegant, built on (what else these days?) twitter
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It simply [...]

I’ve been mumbling in twitter (like anyone notices) about a very interesting data gathering/visualizing tool that rides the back coat tails of twitter in a clever way. I’ll spill the beans first, but stick around for the story and the after blog coffee, okay?
Your Flowing Data (YFD) is described by its creator, Nathan, as “a [...]

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They do. I want the world to know. (this is an hour after my second request submitted to their support email for help)
Twas not a happy experience last 2 days with Dreamhost and a migration to their “private server” experience…. I had not responded to their first [...]

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There’s something afoot abut data.
Whether it is Sir Tim’s vision of a Web of Data (or is it the W3C Linked Data?), there is something emerging with not only the availability of more data (heck even the government is on it http://www.data.gov) but more what we can do [...]

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In honor of Dominoe, who left this world July 24, 1993.
Yesterday’s addictive diversion was flipping through my old analog photo albums pulling photos to scan for Remembering Dominoe.
But I missed another major back story part of the story. It was in 1986 when my room-mate Kevin told [...]

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I’m a huge fan of CoolIris, the browser plugin that turns media content into an amazing flowing virtual wall. It is hands down one of the best ways to explore flickr or YouTube searches, since results are not limited to one page, it becomes endless flow.
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Today was the sad, sad day in 1993 when Dominoe had to be put down.
Since she was the big star of my

It’s been a while but it is time to add to my collection of WordPress Dissected where I break down web sites I have been building using WordPress but with some moderate to severe template wrangling.
Today I present an NMC project set that is sort of a Zen Riddle. If a blog has no posts [...]

With our growing number of NMC organizations in Australia I’ve been exploring/wondering of ways to better connect and grow this community down under.
I’ve been doubtful of the connectivity possibility (mainly the audio) of our Adobe Connect room we use for our monthly seminars. The built in tool that provides data on a user’s local [...]