Since the end of September our team has run 10 weekly Creative Commons (CC) related activities published on this site and to twitter under the #CCquest hashtag. The idea was to create a small challenge around an aspect of CC that could be answered (and shared) in a single tweet. It emerged from our project […]
You get inside your car, turn the ignition switch, hopefully put on the safety belt, maybe turn on the radio or some kind of music player. The engine warms up. When you want to do, which gear to you put it in? A tad obvious, right? Within a few pages of Chapter 3 (“Ideas”) We […]
Word traveling seeds, now is there a metaphor? Back in 2013, Jason Toal blogged a offer to send some sunflower seeds he had harvested in Vnacouver to anyone who commented on his blog. The idea was that when they harvested, they would “seed it forward” to others. And to trace credit, the idea was inspired […]
I do have a pile of things I have dreams of writing about, but my blog queue is not a FILO system. Tonight’s dinner was in front of the RSS Reader, where I was impressed reading Clint Lalonde’s post Of Bikes and Books with his efforts this year to bike ride more, lose weight,and read […]
I cannot offer a rationale explanation why I have spent a chunk of time since Sunday trying to animate a book cover. But I can tell you that once the idea of it materialized in my brain, I could not let it go. Expect another overly long, typo-ridden blog post of explanation. But for now, […]
WordPress is a long running machine, and in most of my 11 year experience using it, have found it rather forgiving with old code and themes. With the 4.7 WordPress update, I have been seeing a problem with the Feed WordPress plugin, and despite a fix I found that cleared the error, tonight I found […]
This Tuesday marks the culmination of our second year of the UDG Agora project, maybe one of the best projects I have been ever part of for professional, collaborative, cultural, and human reasons. It is also one that will likely never make a splash in any academic marquee publishing space. The project is a significant […]
Nothing earth shaking or melting here, but an answer to an annoyance I have with some uses of Google Forms. I hate un-necessary scrolling. When you have the results go to a spreadsheet, one of the bothersome things is that new data gets added to the bottom. At some level, that means that I always […]
Is it all about the licenses? Many explanations of Creative Commons make it sounds simple, walk through the questions of the chooser, and out plops the correct license. Go share. It does work well. But deeper understanding often leads to greyer area, where the answers spiral down to technical and jargon related insider language. We […]
You can feed anything you want at any WordPress blog You can feed anything you want at any WordPress blog Right on the URL, tack on “feed” Syndicated almost anything you need You can feed anything you want at any WordPress blog Bear with me on Chapter 156 of my WordPress love. And for RSS. […]
