Some stories, films end so neatly, clearly understandable, leaving me not much to wonder. Others are so dense, artsy, deep, complex, that I’m left stunned, shrug, and move on. Between these two sides of a canyon, is a valley where the story does not wrap so neatly, but leaves the brain gears churning. The story […]
In a presentation last Friday at the 2016 Open Education Conference Paul Stacey and I described the Certification project as “Massive Open OER Development.” MOOD? People who know me know how much I think of acronyms that start with M-O-0… (that was meant to be wry humor) Hearing about @creativecommons ‘certificate’ prog – awesomeness with […]
In which this tired blogger fails to summarize a conference experience, and gives up before even trying… With clocks flipping in some corners of the world, last night I’m just home from a week in Virginia for the 2016 Open Education Conference. That’s it’s 13th iteration, maybe my fourth. Here is the usual conference after […]
It all starts with a tweet. From a friend. This is a clue as to where I am going. Colorado vineyard country threatened by oil and gas drilling plans wilderness https://t.co/T73QGaPbj7 via @sharethis @cogdog used your pix — Oogie McGuire (@OogieM) October 29, 2016 Oogie and her husband run Desert Weyr a ranch in Colorado […]
Yes, our American fascination with our gas churning cars may be a tad vulgar. But they are engrained in our culture. Leave it to my Iranian born American raised blogging friend Jabiz, now living in Singapore, to inspire this post with his A History of Cars. If you read between the cars in his post, […]
Of course I am being facetious. This is CogDogBlog after all. And yes, we mostly all know who owns YouTube. But for being the company that pretty much rose like a behemoth from the litter of Altavista, Lycos, Ask Jeeves, Yahoo, Web Crawler, Dogpile (my favorite name), why is the search functionality in YouTube so… […]
Attribution is a FBW (Frequently Blogged Word) around here. I’ve had some back if the brain pondering about how to extend my Flickr CC Attribution Helper to work with images from other CC licensed image collections that have a JavaScript API available (I am thinking of Pixabay, DeviantArt, and MediaWiki Commons as a start). I […]
This is how it ends. DDoS attacks are hitting the internet that network that was supposed to be designed to withstand attack. Twitter, GitHub, are down, many other sites are fine (like this one). I sit here alone, contemplating a life of work based on the internet. Options… ? Top / Featured Image flickr photo […]
Can you really say thank you or express gratitude too much? I don’t think so, but then when you are on the receiving end, why does it feel so startling groovy? Prepare yourself for blog post number 343 on Attributing is a Good Thing. Yesterday, among the jetsam and flotsam of email, was a gem […]
As an alternative to the myopic sounds of news on the radio these days, I’m turning up the amount of podcast listening when I have more than 30 driving. One show I have been really enjoying is Song Exploder: Song Exploder is a podcast where musicians take apart their songs, and piece by piece, tell […]
