cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog I’ve milked this story plenty of times before- during a 2007 workshop in Tasmania, I used as an example of the power of unexpected connections, someone the year before had commented on a flickr photo I had tagged as “unknown” and told me the kind of flower it […]
cc licensed flickr photo shared by chotda That is some tasty looking spam sushi, but not as good as this gem that was sparkling like a cubic zirconia in my inbox. The beauty was the letter was attached as a PDF and allegedly referred to a manufactured relative with my last name: Dear Levine, I […]
cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog On Saturday I drove down the hill to meet up with some of my former Maricopa colleagues at the TEDxPHX, the local independent TED event. If it were not for the CybersalonAZ pals, I might not have gone. Previously, I made have thumbed my nose at what looks […]
It has been more than three years since I did the first iteration of 50+ Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story (that was October 15, 2007 in Hobart, Tasmania). It’s been on my mind for months to recast the site into a new version. Much of the information needs updates, some of the tools […]
cc licensed flickr photo shared by zenobia_joy Against every sane, rational, “I’m so over committed I’m gonna explode” thought, I have decided to plunge my hand again into National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), the challenge where aspiring, and maybe aspired, writers take on the goal of writing a 50,000 word novel over a one month […]
I had not identified it before, but after watching The Road last night on DVD, I realized I have a fascination with post-apocalyptic films, as one reviewers describes as “near future” views of our world. Maybe it was first watch of the Road Warrior I saw as a teen, but on my flight home from […]
cc licensed flickr photo shared by Horrortaxi Among the clever Shirkyisms is his observation on people tagging spam target links Back In The Day, when I was trying to explain what I meant when I was talking about social software, but before Coates pulled my fat out of the fire by doing the work for […]
While I’m on the code doc kick… this one is not mine, but something I applied on my site. A week or so ago I came across (from RSS feeds? nah, I think it was in twitter? maybe a squirrel stepped o my keyboard?) Steph Gray’s Reading: keeping on top of stuff I save, some […]
I spent about 15 minutes writing a small PHP function for one of my sites, and then another hour writing it up. What for? Well, let’s back up. If you are running online events where people might come from anywhere, there can always be challenges for getting the right time to people. For our NMC […]
I’m coming off of a fantastic closing session at the NMC Symposium by the Future by Ruben Puentedura on Of Maps, Systems, and Stories: Visualization for Sustainability (we are still processing the recorded audio but there is a gold mine in his slides). Ruben’s examples and ideas on visualization have me inspired to carve up […]
