To totally mangle McLuhan is medium.com the message? Does it control the message? What is the message? I will unfairly pick on one story in my assertion that for a lot of what people publish on medium- the entire arc of the story is contained within a click bait title. And this has a lot […]
Me: Holy frijole! (slaps head)
I’ve been yawing and yammering out in Twitter Land with the #western106 hashtag and plum forgot to set up a corral collectin’ pen with the Twitter TAGS Tool by
There shure is plenty of whooping it up out there in the riding pen, with all these folks coming in with all shiny intentions of doing Western106 with this outfit.
Lots of that action is …
It’s very rare that I go to the twitter web interface to read tweets (in their soon to be quaint 140 character limit form); like many I rely heavily on the multiple stream view of columns in Tweetdeck. Left side is my full stream which I barely look at; next is a column for a […]
You gotta celebrate the small things, right? Self high-fiving for figuring out MySQL query to delete 16,000 un-needed categories from the ds106 site. — Alan Levine (@cogdog) January 6, 2016 What I will detail may likely benefit no one else beyond me should I ever lose my notes. But, writing about the process is… well […]
This web site is starting to shape up. Today we got in place all the pages, many of them placeholders, for Western 106.
That’s the classic Man With No Name minimal utterance “Get three more coffins ready” in the clip from Sergio Leone’s spaghetti western masterpiece A Fistful of Dollars (I love how after the gunfight scene that follows he says, as holstering his gun, “My mistake, make it four coffins”). For thinking of a DS106 trailer for […]
First of all there’s the hats. Then it’s sitting around with a buddy talking about photos. And then heck, we might just go riding off into the sunset. I can’t wait for western106.
Today’s DS106 / Western Daily Create was to do some “research” on spaghetti westerns: #ds106 #dailycreate #tdc1457 Do Some Research on Spaghetti Westerns https://t.co/gBrUaW1JEf pic.twitter.com/aRXEhV6eMI — ds106 Daily Create (@ds106dc) January 4, 2016 This is one of those tasks that could be as simple as tweeting a link like Paul Bond’s refernece to a Mario […]
I knew right away this tweet would, could, and should be used against me: Oh shit. Here come the year end summaries — Alan Levine (@cogdog) December 21, 2015 So I am going to be the first pot to call the kettle black. I’m doing a year-end summary. Of course its reasonable on the turning […]
