Tom Woodward and I pressed the liftoff button a few hours ago and set out the Thoughtvectors open course site into the web breeze. We have been making a lot of iconic use of the classic Doug Engelbart photo (circa 1968) where he is making an emphatic point:
So.. we not have some fun and do some selfie replications of the image? And thus an impromptu tiny associative trail was started
Do your best #thoughtvectors #selfie a la https://t.co/5G0FTyyUSJ pic.twitter.com/hkFYMy3Lag
— Alan Levine (@cogdog) June 6, 2014
And given a few quick responses, I wanted to play with assembling a twitter custom timeline (a poor web weaver’s storify if you ask me)
In looking at that Englebart photo, I kept thinking that the white cord on his side (assuming it was a small audio monitor) looked like a prototype of iPhone ear buds. This sent me down another trail
You have to add this one from Tom:
http://gifadog.tumblr.com/post/86634982759/bionicteaching-douglas-engelbart-is
So clever! I smile each time I remember it 🙂
(A) I love the GIF (B) its not a selfie (C) I can only put tweets into the embedded timeline