308 Posts from 2007

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50 Web 2.0 Ways To Tell a Story

I am sidestepping some of my own blog advice by blogging something that’s not fully ready for prime time. Among my frantic evening time prep work for my October Australia tour, I am starting to weave together workshop / presentation materials I’ll likely leak here first to get some feedback. What seemed like an off […]

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I Am, Like So Insignificant

I Am, Like So Insignificant posted 23 Jul ’07, 8.52pm MDT PST on flickr I do not register on Google Trends: www.google.com/trends?q=cogdogblog Sigh. Poking around the Google Labs, I played a bit the other night with the search trend analysis tools they have there-might come in handy in some future presentation. With Google Trends, you […]

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Giddyup! Ride the Ole Information Superhighway

Our local paper carries a Monday morning local column on computers, most of the time covering those critical questions on spyware and video drivers for Vista. But the writer sometimes looks at the Internet (with a Capital I), and today I was curious to read the take on social networks. You had my riding down […]

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Blogalytics

I had completely forgotten that I’ve had the bits installed on this blog to capture data in Google Analytics, which for the paranoid means your browsing habits are feeding the big G machine (not the purpose of today’s meanderings). In fact, I doubt I had looked at the reports at all, but they do contain […]

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Hey Eduardo!

My wife was at a dinner recently– she ran nto an old friend and colleague we’d not heard from in a while. Eduardo mentioned “but I read Alan’s blog all the time…”, so Eduardo, this blog post is for you to see if you are there- send me an email and our next lunch meet […]

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My Big Left Toe is in Facebook

Last time I checked, the toe was into learning objects, but now it is FB bound? Why not. Flickr is in Facebook. Slideshare just entered Facebook. Twitter has been there a while. My dog is in there. The parade goes on and on. I am nodding in agreement with Stephen with some skepticism as to […]

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No More Bad Behavior with Bad Behavior on the Prowl

Over the years, angry blog posts about spam is my most frequent blog post activity (well, until Twitter came out). I’ve been long resigned to scripted onslaughts of attempts to insert unwanted content into the comment space as a SFOL (Sad Fact of Life). For the most part, I’ve had excellent luck with Spam karma […]

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Sick Mashup

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 the hood are keeping down. […]