(Image: grandmother computer, a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike (2.0) image from 25031050@N06’s photostream) WARNING: NOSTALGIC INTERNET WARBLING AHEAD! If you were there in the heady first days of the graphic web, when there was but one browser, there was an easy way to know what was worth looking at on the web- there was a […]
We have a transmission from Agent 19 that The Secret Revolution will be soon not so secretly spreading its word: http://secretrevolution.us/secret/36/ What’s this about? Go to the link, damnit. Please. Pretty please. This is a second calling for people who, while wishing for the Big Changes in Education, are doing it at their own level, […]
This might come up in ds106 as an assignment- creating animated trips through Google Streetview. Jim Groom tried to take credit for “inventing: it last year, but I am not stepping into that dog pit again. Well maybe I am— as I had done one in 2008, grabbing screen shots of Google Streetview’s trip down […]
Continuing on the chicken theme? Only the little kind. It’s been almost a month since the sky fell on delicious.com. In news that spread at retweet speed, a leaked screenshot from a Yahoo inside briefing had listed the social bookmarking site delicious as being in the chopping block. Or is it chopped? And so ensued […]
cc licensed flickr photo shared by FatMandy The other half of this week’s ds106 assignment is to experiment with amping up the Campbellian locker decor of your blog– this is fitting for the participants new to blogging, and probably something others revisit every now and them (unless some mad tyrant tries to tell you what […]
Bear with me on a metaphorical stretch. Seat belts are not required, but we will practice our breathing. Wikimedia CC licensed image As a kid, I always liked being in the water- I never enjoyed swimming per se, but I loved seeing how far I could go, how many laps I could do, underwater in […]
My humble apologies- Two weeks ago I asked for recommendations for beach reading and got a great list— and I started one not on the list! I have a good reason- it was a Christmas present from one of my longest known best friends, who wrote inside of it: I hope you still find time […]
And here we go! ds106 is off the ground with week 1’s assignment, a post with typical Groomian oomph (‘this ain;t like your mama’s MOOC”). We are to do any kind of short story about something that happened recently. I was toying with some tech and came up with a half baked idea to try, […]
cc licensed flickr photo shared by ouyea… “That’s for kids.” “It’s just a game.” “Cute. Now let me know when you do something academically valuable.” “Grow up.” “(I can’t do that, people will laugh).” With senseless violence becoming a sad norm, with the weight of a world dying of overheating or exterminating its own biosphere, […]
Almost as much as grey page backgrounds, under construction barricades, and nested HTML tables, few things define the web of the 1990s as the animated GIF. It’s been rewarding and nostalgic to see the wave of resurgence in the lead up to the ds106 open course that should lift off this week. It’s been fun […]
