It has been a loooooong time since I looked at the Demotivational Posters from Despair, which I can remember from way back when the web was young and we spun HTML by hand. For a lover of sarcasm, this is one of the highest art forms, taking potshots at those motivational posters the PHBes put […]
Plenty of Instructions at the Alamo posted 7 Nov ’06, 9.40am MST PST on flickr Do quiet non smoking men only have to remove their hats? Why do women get to keep their hats on? Can we take pictures? This sign from the Alamo hopefully is not hung at the ELI conference venue. Tomorrow (or […]
Ignore the Numbers? posted 24 Jan ’08, 2.26pm MST PST on flickr If Hasbro is strategic, they might do something smart to acknowledge almost 50,000 game players of Scrabulous. Or if they listen to lawyers and PHBs, they will piss of 50k people. I’m one. Cluetrain, anyone? Crikies, they can likely run the whole company […]
Liar posted 24 Jan ’08, 12.49pm MST PST on flickr The web site istwitterdown.com is a big fat liar You cannot trust any web sites. Definitely not mine either. iscogdogdogblogfullofcrap.com? Yes
A while back I was excited to tinker with CommentPress, a WordPress template geared towards a format for online papers — see CommentPressing NMC Paper on Evolution of Communication. Developed by the Institute for the Future of the Book, what CP offers is the feature for site visitors to attach comments at the paragraph level– […]
So many social networks, so little time… I do not know about you, humble blog reader, but I have truly lost track of all the social networking sites I have signed up for over the last few years. I am using the term “social networking” sites loosely, maybe they are social software, maybe they are […]
A long, long, long time ago (maybe not in a galaxy far, far away, it is about 90 miles from where I sit), maybe 2003, 2004, while in my role at Maricopa, I was doing workshops and trying to promote the potential of blogging (how novel, eh?). I created an online set of resources I […]
Photorealism Inside a Virtual World? posted 15 Jan ’08, 11.08pm MST PST on flickr Mix your worlds– this is from an event today we held in Second Life (114 people showed up in this place where "no one is ever around") — a demo of a Virtual Reality Room. This is a clever implementation of […]
I scan a lot of stuff via my networks, news readers, twitters, email… mostly it is just a humongous pile of disconnected bits, and sometimes, sometimes, strands come together to make sense. Huh? In the way back, the way way back of human memory storage I recall Ewan McIntosh writing about some new tool he […]
A Single Purpose Useful Web Site posted 12 Jan ’08, 9.16pm MST PST on flickr It exists solely to answer the deep question istwitterdown.com/
