308 Posts from 2007

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Reason #1045 Why I Love Slideshare

There are very few things that compel me to use PowerPoint. I have scolded PPT, stomped on it, lifted my doggie leg and peed on it for years… the only reason in the last 12 months I have quietly stifled my contempt is that it is the vehicle where I can post presentations on Slideshare— […]

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Trophy Blogging

Mike Batiste with the Euroleague trophy posted 8 May ’07, 6.58am MDT PST on flickr Euroleague Final’s – Panathinaikos Athens VS Cska Moskow – Athens, Greece 2007 Ditto, ditto, ditto, congrats to all who are finalists in the 2007 Edublog Awards. Vote now, vote early, heck, vote often again and again to see who brings […]

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Google We Have a Problem

At the Speed of Link Farm Spam posted 25 Nov ’07, 7.56am MST PST on flickr It took less than 5 hours after a recent blog post for this first link farm spam trackback to arrive. As bad as that is, the give credit to someone else or am I really known as "Kick-Fiend"? Hello […]

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Mobile Vs Dish Speed

I recently got set up with a wireless broadband card for access to the net via my mobile provider (it is Alltel, but the network is Sprint). While up in the mountains of Strawberry, Arizona, it was time for an old fashioned western shootout between my satellite internet connection (Hughes) and the new mobile card. […]

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Participating in Other People’s Spaces

I was pleased to see one of my new, “bestest” colleagues I got to know this year, Sue Waters get a well deserved recognition link from Stephen Downes for her chock full of good advice post on My Advice On Being A More Effective Blogger! (For another gem see her illustrated post on getting more […]

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I’m Looking At You!

Fresa Tooned posted 24 Nov ’07, 9.28pm MST PST on flickr Messing with those photoshop filters again Maybe this is the secret motto of Facebook? Google? Homeland Security (there is some kind of oxymoron there)? or just a hungry, curious beagle named Fresa… Yes, this blogger is lazy, just slap posting photos from flickr.

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We Are All Weavers?

Which Web Might This Be? posted 24 Nov ’07, 9.28pm MST PST on flickr I really thought the weaver was Sir Tim Berners-Lee… This book in the Pine, Arizona Senior Center Thrift Store (one of the finest anywhere) caught me eye. Actually I think it was about Chinese herbal medicine, but a little cropping, and […]

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Morning Bacn

Morning Bacn posted 23 Nov ’07, 6.30am MST PST on flickr Thanks Facebook, for the hefty morning meal of bacn. All these extra calories after Thanksgiving are making me want to auuughhhhhtttthhhhpffffhhhhhhh.

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I’m In Wikipedia!

I’m somebody now! Millions of people look at this web site everyday! This is the kind of spontaneous publicity – your name in a wiki – that makes people. I’m in Wikipedia! Things are going to start happening to me now. apologies to Steve Martin… Don’t ask why, well I was bored, and looked for […]