I sit brain dead in a plane heading west, home, after a New England road tour with stops at Baruch College in Manhattan, Penn State University, Middlebury Vermont, and wrapping yesterday in Salem, Massachusetts. The stop at Salem was an invited session for their sixth Future is Now conference a semester end gathering for faculty […]
Rhett Dashwood, a Creative Director in Melbourne Australia, has scoured Google Maps Satellite images to create an alphabet of landmarks found in his home state of Victoria. On Google Maps Typography, he describes it: Over the course of several months beginning October 2008 to April 2009 I’ve spent some of my spare time between commercial […]
I’ve never suffered the degradation of working in an organization that acted as my Net Mommy– one that told me I was not old enough or mature enough to monitor my own internet activity. I pity my colleagues in Australia where, as one emailed me tonight, some arbitrary machine of divine intelligence has decided that […]
GE SmartGrid Virtual Solar Energy by cogdogblog posted 10 May ’09, 8.54pm MDT PST on flickr I’d seen this pass by the stream of cool technologies, but while visiting Bryan Alexander, he printed out the correct picture to generate this fun bit of video projection from the GE Smart Grid site ge.ecomagination.com/smartgrid When you hold […]
Watch any YouTube video in a flowing stream of frame shots? Try Yooouuutuuube. It’s better seen than described- the spaced out version of Dominoe: linktribution to Mashable who thankfully do not obfuscate their post URLs with google feedproxy gunk in their RSS feeds
From TechCrunch comes Twitter Is Down: 15 Alternative Things To Do: Talk about Twitter being down on FriendFeed Talk about Twitter being down on Facebook Talk about Twitter being down over IM Leave a comment on a blog post about Twitter being down (preferably this one) Talk about Twitter being down via text message Talk […]
New in Google Labs is an add-on for having embedded web search in your email space- this means while composing a message, there is right in the mail interface a search form. The results appear in a GChat pop-up/overlay, and the results can be directly inserted into your message. In this case, I am emailing […]
I’ve been excited about the LiveScribe pen recorder since seeing it first at a meeting last January, and then magnified by the presentation by Joe Russo at the NMC 2009 Symposium on New Media & Learning. I’d not done much with it in a while, especially with the problems I had with the 1.0 Mac […]
Disaggregate.me by cogdogblog posted 6 May ’09, 8.39pm MDT PST on flickr Oh this is super petty, but in line of discussion of an un-related topic at Penn State yesterday- the need (or desire) for dis-aggregation. In this case, I just hate the wastefulness of hotel packaging of these coffee condiments. The black plastic sack […]
2009/365/125 Yeah That Lion by cogdogblog posted 5 May ’09, 7.36pm MDT PST on flickr After today’s presentations at Penn State, I walked around the corner, and stood face to face with Mr Nittany. Ironic as I borrowed him for the example story prompt in today’s talk on 50+ Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a […]
