cc licensed (BY) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Yesterday, within a few hours driving, I went from seeing the highest elevation in the lower 48 states, My Whitney (14,505 feet) to standing at the lowest surface elevation, Badwater Basin in Death Valley (-282 feet). These two points are about 100 miles distant on a map, […]
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog On break from a long drive to California, I took respit via a hike in Joshua Tree National Park, hiking up Lower Cottomwood Wash to this place- wash meaning maybe some soul cleansing under the desert sun, or also in this case, the dry sandy […]
I do believe in the Six Million Dollar Man, but not Bigfoot… Now hold on to your comments, kids. I believe in Serendipity, I live and breathe its fumes for all of my online career.. How else might I have gotten to house sit for a month in Iceland, have a German Rock Band use […]
cc licensed ( BY ND ) flickr photo shared by Mom Smackley Maybe this is a series, but today’s rant is a follow-up on How to Be a Social Media Dust Bunny*. Spam by email is likely now about 15+ years old, and has become such a commonality that many of us take it as […]
cc licensed (BY) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Yeah, I am in it #4life and will continue to speak into the ds106radio microphone. Who wants any other sign? (Another example for the ds106 Cropped Sign Assignment) Original sign read "Life Ring"
Ben Rimes has coined a clever new ds106 assignment that plays with visual mashups – in Fantasy TED Talks you are given free reign to: Create a scene from a TED Talk being given by a fictional character. Obscure or well known, feel free to have your fictional character pontificating on their story, and their […]
cc licensed ( BY ND ) flickr photo shared by Tambako the Jaguar I am riding on a train, watching the archive of Higher-Ed Live interview with Audrey Waters. She and host Seth Odell are bantering about the possibilities of the hither to change everything MITx, the Stanford AI course and Open Badges as well […]
Only because @echoln tweeted her extra large yam comes this un-necessary Yam Yarn assignment for ds106 Yeah, yeah, yam sharks might be a little scary, but nothing is more terrifying than the Great Orange Tuber, the classic story of all times. This was a quick PhotoShop cut and layer job, based on a movie poster […]
It’s simple. Do something every day, and you get better at it. Easier said than done? Well, let’s look at what’s happening at the ds106 DailyCreate and maybe it will take the pressure off. Jim has already written up how it has progressed so far; this is something we talked about last year before […]
The day before yesterday, I journeyed with my partner in art crime to a brick wall on a side street of Fort Erie, Ontario, and cemented a USB thumb drive into the wall: cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Why? Because, very much like the PirateBox, it is public digital art […]
