Long ago, long before the web, as a Geology student, I was on a trip to Los Angeles. On the return drive along I-10 I saw this billboard that read: Barry’s Bail Bonds: We’ll get You Out… Even if it Takes Us 20 Years! Why does this memory stay in my little brain some 30 […]
Late last May I was driving north from home when I saw a car coming down the hill with a prominent tower atop its roof; I was pretty sure it was a Google Streetview vehicle, but could no get my phone out of lock mode to take a photo, but I did the next best […]
I opted to author this first in medium because that’s where people like “Richard” hang out. And yes “dick” is a bad word, but is also a nickname for “Richard” In which some annoyance over email spam likely descends into likely foul language ranting… and yes “dick” is a poor choice of language, but if […]
This is where I might start with “I don’t know a lot about film” or “I’m not a film critic”. I’ve used before the extras on DVDs and its relation to the film as a metaphor for blogging about our work and the final paper/media production/presentation. And a long time ago, in a career far […]
When I went down to Tucson two weeks ago to hang out with my friend/colleague Shelley Rodrigo (Shelley, you left ODU for UA, get yerself a domain!) part of the trip was to meet some colleagues at a Cyber-Salon hangout. Shelley invented the one I participated in in Phoenix starting in 2008, later copied by […]
Oh, Google, there you go again. Sometime since this morning, when I searched Google Images for my blog post, and later in the day (now), when I did it again, I saw two buttons that were not there before: It looks like they just dropped a new feature in. Yep, look at this, you can […]
Think of a topic that you deeply care about. That you advocate for. Or argue with others who have a different viewpoint. In my world, maybe it’s Open Education. Or MOOCs. Or cMOOCs (POOCS, SMOOCS DOOCS…) Badges. Textbooks. Learning Analytics. Maybe your passionate discussions are not quite monkeys tossing excrement, but have you ever pondered […]
Bear with me as I step with trepidation into philosophical murk with this question: If one accumulates a great deal of small quantifiable things, does it necessarily, by accumulation, equate to something larger, more complex? Huh? Get to the tl;dr dude! No way. I am never that organized. I might not even be sure what […]
One of my weird hobbies is figuring out web tools I can manipulate from just changing something in the URL. In my just ranted piece on Instagram I sought out a thing that would tell me when in time a certain date was that was like 247 weeks ago. Research Maniacs had just the thing, […]
In the affirming spirit of the US elections, let’s talk about winning. By the metrics of internet success, one might say that Instagram pretty much is winning the photo sharing corner of the internet. Gulp their own sheer numbers: Instagram should be the poster child for what Mike Caulfield characterizes as StreamMode: I’ve been talking […]
