http://cogdogblog.com Alan Levine's blog space for barking about instructional technology Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:53:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Wish I had the productivity of Dave Sifry; in his announcement, in 48 hours he rolled out a nifty new twitter/blog crawl mashup called Hoosgot (aka "Who's Got?"): a simple way to ask who’s got what you’re looking for. Just put “hoosgot” in a blog post or a Twitter tweet and ... http://cogdogblog.com/2007/12/30/hoosgot/ The word is out and another linktribution for Tim Lauer- Google Maps has replaced the hybrid map view (satellite imagery with roads on top" with a new button- "terrain" which shows topography and landforms in a shaded relief image. But hey, dont go scanning some place like southern Illinois (no ... http://cogdogblog.com/2007/11/27/terrain/ Here I get to try and blog my own presentation (?). 50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story presentation by Alan Levine at NMC Regional Conference at Tulane. So this is not a detailed blog coverage- pretty much as I said in the talk, the entire pile of stuff is ... http://cogdogblog.com/2007/11/08/50-ways-3/ I am in the one month scramble the jets mode to get ready for my Australian tour where I hope to avoid any street protesters nor tangle up anyone's traffic with my motorcade. I had put some thought around how to do a Web 2.0 workshop that is not the typical ... http://cogdogblog.com/2007/09/09/web-gems/ Like Duvall's Kilgore, who said "there's nothing like napalm in the morning", for a web geek, there's nothing like a bit of curious fiddling with code to make something work. Today's feat was finagling a MediaWiki extension to display a Google Calendar in our sites. I've been using GCal for a ... http://cogdogblog.com/2007/08/30/google-cal-mediawiki/ I think I have a new mode of developing my workshops and presentations, which of course, does not involve crafting it way ahead of time-- but rather than doing my planning, and taking my best shot at it, I am now just tossing out some half baked ideas, picking up ... http://cogdogblog.com/2007/08/15/fishing/ Ah, my poor RSS Reader, not nearly given the devoted attention once reserved for it. Maybe a year, maybe two ago, I'd focus on at least scanning all my sources and marking them read by end of the day, even if it was in one fell keyboard stroke. That was BT ... http://cogdogblog.com/2007/08/10/across-feeds/ No, this is not something to gross you out. Who is Sick is a mashup of google maps and people's self reports of their illness-- it provides some data so supposedly you could find out if that queasy feeling in your stomach is.... well something a lot of people in ... http://cogdogblog.com/2007/07/16/sick-mashup/ Wow, it was yesterday that a tweet from HeyJude lead me to vodpod... today she does it again! Today's tweet from her led me to TouchGraph GoogleBrowser, a web/java application that generates a visual relation map for web sites or searches based on Google data. Well, I think that is ... http://cogdogblog.com/2007/07/13/heyjude-again-tweets-me-to-touchgraph/ I love it when curious link clicking reveals unknown gems! It happened again just an hour ago, with the result of a great video collection tool. Almost by sheer accident- discovered following a tweet by Judy O'Connell to her web 2.0 presentation on Slideshare, that I came across this nifty new ... http://cogdogblog.com/2007/07/12/vodpod/