Buried Bones (Archive) for the 'Blog Pile' Category
- Cruising My Old Street with New Google Street View (
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008)
Wow, the new interface for Google Maps Streetview is very slick! It fills the entire map frame, and you get a spinny controller (like in Google Earth) to rotate your view, plus drag and clicking the mouses gives a tilt-pan effect. So you can zoom down streets! I decided to pay a visit to the [...] more »»
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- Crack Open a Monday (
Monday, November 24th, 2008)
Pushing the Day Out by cogdogblog posted 24 Nov ‘08, 6.26am MST PST on flickr
Bring me warmth and light to push out this cold Icelandic night…
Nothing like a glorious sunrise to get the week started off right (good and plentiful coffee are right up there as well).
One advantage of this time here in [...] more »»
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- Storm The Walled Gardens From a Side Door (
Sunday, November 23rd, 2008)
I have an idea how some rag tag blog army can storm the castle of the Walled Garden Content Horders and do some damage. Maybe. It is likely a dumb idea that someone will poke the Hummer sized holes in.
This just flickered n when I read Clarence Fisher’s Twitter gripe:
What he is saying is that [...] more »»
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- Slow Blogging is in Fashion and in Style (
Sunday, November 23rd, 2008)
How cool is this (and found via a tweet from Barbara Sawhill- twitterbution!)? Barbara Ganley splashes the New York Times on its story of Haste, Scorned: Blogging at a Snailās Pace:
When Barbara Ganley wants to collect her thoughts, she walks in the Vermont countryside, wanders home and blogs about it. In a recent post, she [...] more »»
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- George Needs Help (
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008)
George Siemens is fine despite his sparsely titled circa telegraph text post Need help in which he asks some super broad (yes important) questions:
I often hear educators talking about āeducation needs to changeā (I do it too). This is the case for the K-12, higher education, and corporate training/education markets.
As a small research project, [...] more »»
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- Google Life Photo Archive: Fantastic Images / Fuzzy Info on Usage (
Friday, November 21st, 2008)
I can agree with all the positive acclaim for the archive of Life photographs Google is hosting. It is a vast archive of important historical moments.
What is striking me odd that is not strictly mentioned on this site is any statement on usage of the images. I looked high and low, and I am rather [...] more »»
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- Blogging As Pressing “Copy” on a Xerox Machine (
Thursday, November 20th, 2008)
I have come across a new, and less desirable mode of blogging.
Someone who just grabs something, tosses it on the glass, and leans their thumb on the green “copy” button of the Xerox machine (I thought of writing this as a “ditto” metaphor but would have lost most of my slim audience).
Yeah something I [...] more »»
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- 50 Ways in Moose Jaw (
Thursday, November 20th, 2008)
From Iceland to the Big Screen in Moose Jaw by cogdogblog posted 20 Nov ‘08, 12.25pm MST PST on flickr
We used Skype today for me to present live from Iceland to a group of teachers gathered for a workshop with Dean Shareski in Saskatchewan. Through Skype video and Dean flipping Firefox tabs with [...] more »»
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- Things I am not Doing Today (
Thursday, November 20th, 2008)
photo credit: Alexis Deadly
Accepting invitations to join the “Sexy Vampires”, “Naked Wonders”, or “Canon EF 17-40mm 1:4L USM” flickr groups, not to say they are uninteresting, but….
Even looking at much less considering following “gift_registry”, “Quicken Loans”, “Rentmyhouse4derby”, or “secretfatloss” on Twitter. Yeah, that’s my crowd. Yep.
Logging into Facebook. Why? People who never talked to [...] more »»
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- 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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