I don’t care if it’s just me, but the things that make the web so wonderful in a Keep Austin weird sense are the niche interest sites feverishly maintained by individuals. Coming across a site like Roadtrip-62′ reinforces that, for now, this internet feels as neat to infinite space we can ever freely inhabit. Like […]
A comment from Claudia made me remember this fledgling post idea. She, whom I have etched into my memories of sharing, at a time I needed it most, a beautiful parable of the internet as like a dream, being a place where we hang out with friends we have yet to meet, repeated this in […]
One day I wake up with a thought. Actually, it does not pop in just like that. I am not a cartoon character with a light bulb over my head. The thought starts as a background hum, a slow buzzing sound that might be calling your name, or maybe it just is noise. Something outside. […]
This is a summary of my notes made in preparation for the May 2016 project meeting. Part of our pre-work for the first project meeting (held May 11-13, 2016 in Washington DC) we were asked to review a number of existing certification programs to find elements we would want to “remix” into the Creative Commons […]
It took some alarm clock action, but was worth it to get up early for a Skype call with Antonio Vantaggiato and his INF115 students at Universidad del Sagrado Corazón. It seems like a while ago, but only a few weeks since I left Puerto Rico, having spent a month at the University and helping […]
I read two articles online this week that truly stood out as great writing, both by authors I have read before and found to be great writers. No news there. Nor is there in the idea for my first title for this post, it was going to be “Great Writing is Great Writing (duh).” Why […]
While #western106 has long ridden off the horizon (or sunk into the desert sand), I had a movie left to finish watching. For longer than I can remember, I’ve loved Little Big Man for a number of things, but on so many levels its a Western that does not exactly act like one. Actually what […]
Mother’s Day without your Mom leaves a big space to comb through the past. I cannot count myself fortunate enough that on my last visit with her in 2011 (never expecting it to be the last), that I got her to record some audio stories of her past, growing up, her family life, meeting my […]
I’m doing some prep work for next week’s Washington D.C. meeting (first one) for the Creative Commons Certification project I am now working on, where we are tasked at looking at a range of existing certifications, train the trainer programs to “remix” the best features into a possible vision for what we hope to build. […]
Like atrophied brain muscles, tonight I was itching to do some code tinkering, so I added a new feature to the DS106 Assignment Bank Theme. It’s hardly anything the world was clamoring for (I am not sure if the world clamors to me anyhow). And I got to practice doing my git-ness right by making […]
