A japanese houseplant has its own blog, and updates it on a regular basis: If houseplants could blog, what would they say? To find out, Kamakura-based IT company KAYAC Co., Ltd. has developed a sophisticated botanical interface system that lets plants post their thoughts online. A succulent Sweetheart Hoya (Hoya kerii) named “Midori-san” is now […]
PhotoSynth Strike Two by cogdogblog posted 14 Oct ’08, 11.32pm MDT PST on flickr After my first miserable attempt to create a PhotoSynth in my living room, I sat down and read the RTFM, took 300 photos, but only got to 70% synthy. Needed more angles and connectors. This one took 2.5 hours. See Strawberry […]
With travel, work-load, and self-imposed laziness, I maintain my firm position on the very far edges of participation in the Connectivism & Connective Knowledge. But as I intuit from the Stephen and George show, that really does not matter, and we need to get over that. photo credit: Pulpolux !!! Week 6 is Complexity, Chaos […]
Photosynth was one of those “cool demos I saw and bookmarked for later” that I was recently nudged to go back and look at– this week I saw a very cool scene created by the folks at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. In a nutshell, PhotoSynth magically creates a navigable scene that lets you move […]
Show me the money by Kees (km-fotografie.nl) posted 20 Mar ’08, 10.37am MDT PST on flickr This exhibition shows the full contract from – if I remember it wel – a Swiss Bank for lending out money to the museum. Behind every page is a light source. In the middle (where my friend is standing) […]
The Future is Here? by cogdogblog posted 24 Sep ’08, 7.11pm MDT PST on flickr Spotted on the streets of Hong Kong, I am pretty sure in peeking in the window I saw lots of “Connectivism in a Box” 😉 Go George Go!
Just got word via the tweetvine from Dave Lester that the first ever WordCamp Ed (WordCamp Education) is happening in Washington, DC, on November 22 at George Mason University. WordCamp Ed is a WordCamp focused entirely on educational uses WordPress “” in schools and universities. The inaugural WordCamp Ed will be held at George Mason […]
photo credit: jespis (a.k.a. Friends Friends Friend) Like Leigh and many others (apparently “a hundred thousand” people), I got a Dear John letter from Eyespot announcing their departure from the video editing/publishing service. It’s not all that surprising; what is surprising that there are not more Web 2.0 dead sites, at least ones that will […]
Asia Express by cogdogblog posted 8 Oct ’08, 2.31am MDT PST on flickr This is what the three previous weeks seemed like with my jaunt to Shangai, Hong Kong, and Japan. One tired dog. That worked out to be approximately photos per day. I’ve plopped them into a single flickr slideshow. Well, depending how how […]
That’s My Photo!! by cogdogblog posted 8 Oct ’08, 2.33am MDT PST on flickr A new round of self back-patting! One of my flickr photos is part of a museum exhibit… I got a flickr email request a few weeks back from a designer who asked to use one of my photos in part of […]
