Buried Bones (Archive) for the 'Blog Pile' Category

  • From Ice to Thai via the Net ( Wednesday, November 19th, 2008)
    Last night for me here in Iceland I had an enjoyable time Skype videochatting with Chrissy’s class in Bangkok Thailand. I got to meet Chrissy in September at the Learning 2.008 conference in Shanghai; she is on her own adventure in moving this year to Thailand to teach at an international school. It was early morning in [...] more »»
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  • I Can Haz Mak Muzik on iFone ( Tuesday, November 18th, 2008)
    More Amazing iPhone Music Making: ZooZBeat by cogdogblog posted 18 Nov ‘08, 4.08pm MST PST on flickr Another "wow" for an iPhone app- ZoozBeat allows you to lay down "tracks" for different instruments- by touch, keyboard, or shake. The free version gives 2 background beats and 6 instruments; for a whopping $2.99 you get [...] more »»
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  • GCal PopUp Makes Calendaring (almost) Fun! ( Tuesday, November 18th, 2008)
    I’ve not written anything on a paper calendar or DayTimer for more than two years; my cal is on the clouds with Google Calendar– We have all of the NMC stuff using it on our enterprise set of GoogleApps, for individuals and several group/project ones, and I can access and schedule them with my typically [...] more »»
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  • Wandering the (not so) dead blogs ( Tuesday, November 18th, 2008)
    You’ve heard the declarations. Blogs are dead. 94% of them have not published in the last 120 days. I did not have time today to visit all 133 million blogs Technorati has been tracking since 2002. cc licensed flickr photo by john_curley But I have often marveled at the gems I find by random link walking from blogs- like [...] more »»
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  • More Zombie Survival Tips ( Monday, November 17th, 2008)
    It is too late for Jim Groom and Tom Woodard who cinematicly presented warnings about zombies for the NMC Rock the Academy Symposium, but I missed a key resource for the zombie intrigued. How remiss to have not shared the Common Craft cult classic- Zombies in Plain English: There was so much there I did not [...] more »»
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  • Geocommons Makes it Easy for Anyone to Mashup Data & Maps ( Monday, November 17th, 2008)
    Sometimes it can take months to answer a question; Robert, a colleague I met in Shanghai who teaches at Fudan University asked if I knew of any tools that would make it easy for his journalism students to generate their own mashups of data and maps. I did not have an answer then; I [...] more »»
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  • World Ocarina ( Sunday, November 16th, 2008)
    Listen to the World Play Ocarina by cogdogblog posted 16 Nov ‘08, 3.04pm MST PST on flickr I’ve already raved about Ocarina, the iPhone magic flute — a real instrument you can turn your phone into. But there’s more- activate the bottom menu bar, and click the world icon (2nd from left) and you can [...] more »»
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  • Network Timeout w/ Extra Snark ( Sunday, November 16th, 2008)
    Twitter Timeout by cogdogblog posted 16 Nov ‘08, 10.02am MST PST on flickr and stop reloading, damnit! You are hurtin’ the tubes! more »»
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  • Dog Stomps Guy ( Sunday, November 16th, 2008)
    You know much little grades really mean to what we know/can do, but long-time colleague Liz tweeted me my TwitterGrade and then followed up with data of overwhelming stomping of Guy Kawaski: So we can put a lot of faith into a mystery metric, but what the heck? I’ll roll with it. Take that @guykawasaki and your [...] more »»
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  • Aloneness / Loneliness? ( Sunday, November 16th, 2008)
    Aloneness or Lonliness? by cogdogblog posted 16 Nov ‘08, 4.54am MST PST on flickr Perhaps it is a fine line, but as a very sparsely populated, expansive– and moving into winter– dark place, Iceland can offer you plenty of time, space for reflective alone time… or toss you into an abyss of isolation. My measure [...] more »»
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