CogBlogged from ‘June, 2011’

This was a video I had fun doing as part of the “crowdsourced” keynote assembled for the ETUG Spring 2011 workshop. The collection of videos was great and I really like this idea for assembling content around a message. I also had tossed in the “I am Bored As Hell…” video I did a few weeks ago. I was pleased that a few people thought this was a Brian Lamb production… I just have to work up a but more of a fevered pitch.

I’m releasing a day early the collection of Amazing Stories of Openness I will show tomorrow at the opening of the ETUG Spring Workshop in Nelson, BC. These are just the videos, for the session, I have a few surprises up my sleeve, and may even gamble on doing a chunk of this w/o any visuals. So, yeah, bryan Alexander, go ahead and tweet it- your video with the axe was the first one I recorded and is a gem. The stories are up now at http://cogdogblog.com/stuff/etug11/ — the FLVs are bigger than I usually do, as I am running the site locally tomorrow, and want crisp videos. This is doing the CoolIris shtick for the wall of media. The bulks of these I recorded on my iPhone hitting up people on my travels over the last few weeks. I do want to give a nod to Scott Leslie and [...]

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog This little case is going to contain an entire four months of shared, gathered experience on my road tour. Built as a way to easily, anonymously share files and chat over a local network (see David Darts hub site for full details). It establishes a public wireless network, but it is not anyway connected to the internet. The whole intent is local file sharing and, as coined in Ars Technica, is an “artistic provocation” I was introduced to the idea by Grant Potter, who was running demos at Northern Voice– Untitled from Travis Boisvenue on Vimeo. But it was the Nosieprofessor who proposed the idea that I would take one on my trip around the country (and that other one to the north) ILTPBHFYTR (I Left This Pirate Box Here For You To Read) even with some rules (some might [...]