311 Posts from 2016

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The Web of 2016… pops?

POP! Like a zombie, email is declared dead on regular intervals. There are counter assertions, but the most significant sign to me, is the increasing frequency of web popovers that implore me to sign up for news by…. email. POP! I tried this month to screen cap all the ones I zapped; I definitely missed […]

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The Purity of Numerical Data

Data. Big. Analytics. I don’t dismiss a potential, the efforts to “harness” it. I just don’t find it all that interesting. But my data? Different. I’ve been running my own metrics for maybe two months. I may hate dieting more than I hate running. The only time I lost a good amount of weight was […]

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A #DS106 Spontaneous Breakout of Flag Hands

It all started with a tweet from someone I don’t know. Today’s DS106 Daily Create was about showing how “massive” it is: #ds106 #dailycreate #tdc1602 Show the world how DS106 is MASSIVE https://t.co/y7RxyNZJva pic.twitter.com/hqu7qXFZje — ds106 Daily Create (@ds106dc) May 28, 2016 And I smiled seeing how @g1000p, a twitter account with 4 total tweets, […]

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I of Abraham

There goes that calendar reminder. Today is the day in 1956 that my grandfather, Abraham passed away, seven years before I was even born. I know he died young; his wife lived until 2003; outliving her husband by 47 years is staggering. I am not sure when he was born, somewhere I have in a […]

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Occam’s Reuse License

For a while I was saving screen shots of some of the convoluted license statements I come across in Wikimedia Commons. There were ones where images were public domain in one country, but of course here in the US Congress every few years extends copyright like another 50 years. One of the most “crappy” set […]

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The Periodic Table of Stupid Periodic Tables

Look, I’m no chemist. I did standard chemistry classes as an undergraduate students, and delved in through my major in Geology (what do you think rocks are made of?), courses in Geochemistry, did I take PChem? What I do remember is my 10th grade Chemistry teacher, Blooma Friedman, would not put up with any scientific […]

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Ten Years Since ELI Fish Tacos

Twas just some silly banter in twitter that got me looking for an image I had created for a presentation at an EDUCAUSE ELI conference. And thus I found myself flipping through a set of remix style book covers I had made back in 2006, a full half decade prior to find a course/cult named […]