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Somewhere in the hustle and bustle of this month I missed a significant milestone. A tenth anniversary worthy of a gift of aluminium (this would be nice but this will do) as tradition goes.
It was sometime in October 1993 at our Ocotillo Technology Showcase (”Expose Yourself to Technology”). Demonstrations likely included laser discs, HyperCard, Toolbook, [...]

Sometimes you can click yourselves into the most fun, obscure, un-googled parts of the web, such as Rune Johansen’s portfolio. Pure serendipitous fun.
Okay, the music grates, but the pictures I gather are pictures of the home life of people in the far flung parts of Norway. There are great detailed shots of objetcs (they have [...]

It is likely impossible to describe in text NobodyHere… It is a site to explore messages, relationships of words, metaphors, and variety of interesting gadgets.
“How does this work?”
Just click. All pages are connected.
“Why?”
Because I like to express myself using animation, text and programming. The site has been on-line since 1998 and grew into [...]

Ouch, I just hurt mysefl laughing… The folks at J-Walk blog have done it again.
Find out all about Spam University, ” the world’s top-rated educational institution for the growing spam industry.”
Under Admissions:
Spam University receives thousands of applications every month.
Regretfully, we can’t accept everyone who applies. Consequently, we have stringent requirements for acceptance.
We’ve found that [...]

Wow, these TypePad blogs just continue to pop up, all nicely organized. Here is Ratchet Up “is John Schott & friends, featuring links, often daily, to something of interest in digital culture and the arts.”
These are not just your typical blog echoes from elsewhere, each story is originally written and tastefully illustrated.
The Ratchet Up brief [...]

A nicely done article on looking at your web pages with a different mind-set. Check out Boxes and Arrows: Natural Selections: Colors Found in Nature and Interface Design.
Typicallly B&A has some high brow articles, e.g. “Semiotics: A Primer for Designers”, stuff for people labled “information architects”, but now and then you find some down [...]

Anyone RSS-ing or surfing the education weblog scenes (e.g. Weblogg-ed) know that educator weblogs are catching on as a quiet revolution. And it is happening here in our system, a quiet revolution thaking place in and under the radar.
Out at Chandler-Gilbert Community College, their home-grown eportfolio system features a blog tool, and last we [...]

Okay, this dog is going to anger management.
After our recent barking on Sipping MERLOT’s RSS Feeds: Is this Boone’s Farm or Dom Perignon?, we enjoyed some good discussion with some MERLOT insiders.
The bottom line is that MERLOT still has a fabulous wealth of intstructional resources, and should be on the Bookmark list of every faculty [...]

From Quinnipiac University comes this gem: Blogging Across the Curriculum. Pattie Belle Hastings from the Interactive Design Department shares this resource that rose from her 2002 experiments on using student weblogs as alternatives to paper design jounrals.
Her site provides a nice overview of blogging, how to blog, the role of blogs in teaching, lots of [...]

Wow, a variation on the BlogChatter, this nifty site shows, in near real-time, the World as a Blog…
Real time and updating display of weblog postings, around the world… Weblogs.com + geocoding + RSS
But what is it? You see a world map, and as weblogs entries are posted around the world, they appear on the map [...]