Last Thursday, November 9, was a full workshop day at Chisholm Institute in Cranbourne, more than a few clicks south of Melbourne city proper. I was fortunate to have energetic groups for both morning and afternoon workshops. The topic in the morning was Finding the Affordances of Digital Media– it’s the tagline that gives it […]
In theory, their motto is about not doing evil, but Google sure does some smelly things that we can only guess at because of their opaqueness. Like giving favorable image search results to sites that obviously scrape content from other sites and serve it up as shoddy copies. I do a lot of searching of […]
Yikes! I’m in that sad position of back blogging… This goes back to last week, my very first workshop session for my ISS Institute Tour. This was for instructional designers, assessment specialists and educational technologists who work for the online arm of Chisholm Institute and held at their office in Dandenong. They had chosen from […]
One can only hope in life to be as cool as Gromit. Today I spent some time studying his friends and more at the ACMI Exhibit on Wallace & Gromit and Friends Thanks to Seb Chang whom I am meeting officially a part of my visit Wednesday, I got a ticket for the exhibit. It […]
Borrowing from a movie’s taglines the opening here might be “The time is just right for an out and out podcast like this” or “There are no rules and no holds barred when Antonio’s accent cuts loose!” Here is the first episode of a new podcast that Antonio Vantaggiato and I produced asynchronously collaboratively. TW […]
I’m vying in a contest on my own blog for least intelligible post title. The competition is thin. I introduced this word (and the same photo) (because at least people should enjoy the photo) in a talk this week on my approach of “doing it web style”. The audience had not heard the term dogfooding […]
I clicked in the wrong place on an image in tweetdeck, and saw surprise golden light. Well, that might be overly dramatic. But check this out, it’s not in Twitter web. Look in the upper right corner of an image in a tweet seen in Tweetdeck. Viewed on the web, no shine: Have you considered […]
It’s been a nice cuppa days here since arriving in Melbourne… My long time friend Jan, whom I knew way back when when we both worked at Maricopa, came into the city to lunch Saturday and walk a bit with me (and enjoy two cups of coffee in the laneway near my apartment). Jan has […]
Tony Hirst, absolutely one of the best last of the Bloghicans, wrote the other day of Keeping Up With What’s Possible – Daily Satellite Imagery from AWS. This struck a memory nerve, as this is what I did in the late 1980s for my Masters Thesis in Geology… though it was stone and chisel computing […]
You can’t get places without a map, can you? Even if you do not use one, your journey is mapped. Well, I think so, since I adore maps. I was not thinking about putting one together, though, until a tweet from Bruno who saw my tweets from Death Valley, on the drive from Arizona to […]
