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I’ve been a few weeks into using Google Chrome, and sorry Old Fox, the shiny metal is looking and feeling good.
With Firefox, it was a long running period of spending time I’d rather be browsing waiting for Mac Beachballs to stop spinning, or that pause when a cursor goes [...]

This same thing happened a year ago.
In some fluke of nature because, as a state with leading indicators of worse budget deficit, lowest numbers of high school graduation rates, Arizona is somehow ahead of the curve in terms of not following the confusion of shifting clocks for daylight savings. Yes, all of the wheat farmers [...]

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from the idle wonderings department…and summoning my best Andy Rooney voice
Did you ever notice…. how short/brief flickr comments are? “nice photo” “Awesome!” “great shot” — heck you could fit 4 or 5 in a single tweet.
Think about it- a good meaty blog post (the kind not typically found [...]

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That little search field and button in WordPress has not changed in function one bit since i started with WordPress. Oh sure, you can pop words in there, and get list of results. That works. But it is really limiting, especially when you have a few years heaped up [...]

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It’s been rattling around in the grey matter since Saturday, an un-organized strand of thoughts about the TEDxNYED event– and lacking a clever title, I made it a past tense verb (and that is something I expect no one to even spot as clever).
Just to set the baseline, I [...]

It’s been on my to do list since August, but I finally got the last mile of code done to restore my Five Card Flickr stories site to life.

If you had not played with this before, the initial description tells it all:
I’ve been ultra interested in the idea of telling stories in pictures. Ever [...]

Again, nothing warms this web dog’;s heart that accidentally discovering something useful. With my two daily photo habits (@dailyshoot and 2010/365 photos) I am continually having to seek out specific bits of information.
For dailyshoot I check in the morning what the assignment is usually by a visit to their twitter page or checking an RSS [...]

Last week I was deeply immersed (3 days x 14 hours ea) in helping run an NMC Conference in Second Life. Something that has always been obvious came knock me over with a hammer obvious – there is something perversely wrong in communicating something in a 3D space using 2D slides.
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I saw Mikhail’s effort of telling the story of The Shining in 6 Frames in response to Jim Groom’s explanation of this as an activity used in his digital storytelling class.
But c’mon, how many other ways do you mix up Jack with an Ax, Jack in the Ice, Jack in the Bar, jack poking his [...]

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I’ve never met Jared Stein I’ve had his blog in my reader a while, see his tweets, and know he swims in same circles as some of my other core online circle.
So what do I know? He writes rather deeply and introspectively (e.g. on solitude and metacognition [...]