Blogged This Day

Scrolling back the blog in time, inspired by John Johnston to see all posts posted on today’s date in previous years. This is achieved via the WP Posted Today plugin (that’s one I made!).

There are 18 posts previously published on August 19th

• 2022
  • What’s up, Doc? Docsifying the SPLOT Docs Documentation … chore or joy, or neither? I’ve been wanting to put the nifty Docsify-This publishing tool made by Paul Hibbitts into play. Amongst my sprawl of Github projects are the SPLOT WordPress themes each with a rather sprawling in its own rights README file that includes my efforts at splotware documentation (look at this […]
• 2021
  • Creek. Time. I am composing this in the way the ancient ones blogged. Archaically, pen to paper. Content-wise, nothing is different than writing here in WordPress, it’s just a jumble of words. In what I conjure as an annual semi-tradition (i have convinced myself I have done this before, now that I think of it, last year’s […]
• 2020
  • Cooking With/As Metaphor: The H5P/PB Kitchen The opening philosophical question here is, “What is a metaphor for a metaphor?” I leave that riddle for the end of this post, wherever it may end up. The blogging here has been a bit sporadic, I could pull out a sheaf of excuses from the overstuffed drawer- project business? pandemic fatigue? outside gardening? The […]
• 2019
  • Eventually? Now… a New WordPress Calling Card Theme I’ve had the itch for a while to do another in my series of WordPress themes based on HTML5Up templates. Here is the first demo version of WP-Eventually, built up the original HTML one that calls for hand coding. The compelling feature of the original is the subtle sliding images in the background. I’ve used […]
• 2016
  • When it’s Your Googopoly Game, You Can Flip the Board in the Air Anytime Sigh, I am again reaching into my past for a metaphor. But hey, this is my blog, my game board, and I get to do what I want. My older sister and I have always been a bit competitive in playing games. Harriet and I go head to head with each other in Words with […]
• 2015
  • Dilo (Ugh?) Our New Discourse Powered Platform for UdG Agora This week we move into the second phase of the UdG Agora project. After two face to face one week long “studio” sessions of 150 University of Guadalajara faculty, we move into an 8 week online phase where they are asked to develop and implement 3-4 challenges with their courses, creating activities that are student […]
• 2013
  • ds106 is Stuff That Gets Splogged cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine Back when he made sense, Clay Shirky uttered a clever definition “Social software is stuff that gets spammed.” which, now, in my own brain space, find that ds106 is not “stuff that gets splogged” (What is a splog?) Huh? In reviewing the insides […]
  • No Guru, No Method, No Teacher: #HEADLESS13 Yes, in a week, we will be into the first day of the headless ds106 course. I am not teaching anyone. No one is. Or everyone is. We already have 23 headless participants. Over the next few days, I hope to put the weekly announcements in the scheduled post queue, with the plan they will […]
• 2012
  • Two Great Creates That Might Go Together I have no idea why I did not think of this before….     PLUS     That is combining the photos submitted for the ds106 Daily Create with Five Card flickr Stories? Now it is in place- if you post your Daily Create photos with the flickr tag dailycreate (along with your regular TDCXXX […]
• 2010
  • London Barking cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog I was told London was rainy and gray, but so far (apply jinx here), the weather has been stunning. This is just a brief bit to say, “Yo London”– this is my first visit to the UK and the first few days have gone by in a blur. […]
• 2008
  • Automatically GeoTagged Photo Hammock as rain gauge by cogdogblog posted 20 Aug ’08, 12.11am MDT PST on flickr Lots of rain in Strawberry this summer; the hammock has been used more to catch water that to catch naps. photo taken with iphone and uploaded with Mobile Fotos app- awesome! it automatically geo locates! The photo here is not […]
  • I Can Has iPhone! I Can Has iPhone! by cogdogblog posted 19 Aug ’08, 6.43pm MDT PST on flickr I’ve been wrong in my assumptions of AT&T service here in Strawberry. You cannot know w/o a phone to be sure. Maybe AT&T has been busy at woprk since I began barking about them. There is no 3G (network is […]
  • Ozh’ Plugin Plugs In Missing Features of WordPress Comment Management I’m sampling now some of my own WordCamp Takeways and am really excited about Ozh’ Absolute Comments plugin recommended by Lorelle. As she mentioned in her WordCamp session, it rather frustrating in the shiny new WP interface where one goes to edit a comment, though it sounds like she does a lot more comment editing […]
• 2005
  • Stigmergic S5 Presentation: DIY eLearning Systems Very cool.. Rob Wall, who blogs well as StigmergicWeb, shared, in advance, a presentation he did as a nice followup to our Small Technologies Loosely Joined session in Vancouver June, 2004. In Rob’s eLearning Processes Using Small Technologies Loosely Joined, he makes the case for consideration of free, open source tools for creating learning contgent, […]
  • Hello Mesa Community College! A colleague mentioned the other day that they saw this blog on the front of the web site for the Center for Teaching & Learning at Mesa Community College, the biggest of the 10 Maricopa colleges. So surely I had to drop the work I was doing and check it out (egos need feeding, right?): […]
  • “Yea! We’ve Killed the Curly Quotes” WordPress has the annoying habit of displaying single and double quotes using pretty curly quotes (nice little balls on the end) which are fine for the page viewed, but they also shove them in RSS feeds, which can end up rendered as all kinds of odd characters (question marks). It also crops up when you […]
• 2003
  • RSSlets: Even More Ideas for RSS Wow. If you are just reading some of the buzz (it’s about time!) about RSS, check out RSSlets – Functional RSS Feeds a series of prototypes for getting at RSS content that may be on the fringe of your idea scope. These are a whole raft of new services that are creative ways to syndicate […]
  • 1973 Flashback: Where is the gas in Phoenix? Lines at the gas stations, tempers flaring… Wow- it is almost a flashback to the 1973 oil embargo but this is 2003 in Phoenix, Arizona where a pipeline shutdown fuels gas shortage. The events in ’73 are a bit fuzzy, but I recall my Dad waiting in long lines for hours to get gasoline that […]

Featured Image: My Photo Made the April Calendar flickr photo by cogdogblog shared into the public domain using Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication (CC0)