Everything that does not have a home, just a big old stinking pile of posts.
Actually we don’t. We need more fake reality shows. San Francisco: Flip This Mayor There must be something in the water at Oakland’s City Hall which makes people stupid. San Francisco’s unemployment rate stands at 7.6 percent, below the national average and the third-lowest unemployment rate in California, as city officials say the number of […]
It's a Bag of Coalby: cogdog I cannot say this has a whole lot of meaning– it more or less came out of just thinking about the rallying call from Gardner Campbell’s No Digital Facelift presentation we use to start ds106. So maybe if people do not see the value of the Bag of Gold, […]
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog I made this as an example for a new ds106 Visual Assignment, Splash The Color– this is the effect of accentuating parts of an image by reducing it to black and white, and then re-coloring or restoring the color of parts of the photo. See […]
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Today (or technically yesterday since it is some early AM hour) would have been my parent’s 62nd wedding anniversary. Alyce and Morris (aka “Mickey”) look so serious in their pose here, though Dad, in his pseudi Desi Arnez style, seems to have a twinkle in […]
Week 3 of ds106 was full of action, from digging out of the rubble that hacker Emre5807 caused to working through the readings of Tim O’Reilly on Web 2.0 and Bryan Alexander on Web storytelling. The flow of activity in The Daily Create has been impressive, especially now that we have our students in the mix.
I’m liking the bit of doing a weekly recap, as a way of mini reflection on what one did with these in a week.
cc licensed (BY) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog The new hard drive is ready to go in my Macbook Pro. Closed her up. I booted from my Leopard startup disk, erased the new drive, and ran an install from a backup on my Time Machine drive. It works like a champ. I am using it […]
cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by PMC 1stPix I really dug the idea Tom Woodward put in for a ds106 Writing Assignment called “Police Beat” Essentially, identify an innocent seeming song that advocates some odd/criminal behavior and reformat it as a police report style article. tags: WritingAssignments, WritingAssignments328 Here is […]
I was listening to ds106 auto DJ and came across the fun I had with Rowan Peter in Melbourne as he pleaded that George Siemens go down under to go ice skating with him. I recalled us conceptualizing the entire Canadian team (Downes, Siemens, and Cormier) coming to perform a MOOCS on Ice show. This […]
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Next week we start a two week segment of ds106 focussed (get it?) on photography. I’m putting out a request to add your suggestions in an open Google doc at http://bit.ly/ds106-better-photos. Links to articles are great, but I am really looking for personal strategies and […]
Fine art, indeed, this limited edition original painting is available for auction coming soon. This is my bit for the Fat Cats Make Art Better ds106 assignment contributed by Annie Belle who is just rocking the class so far. The instructions, if you please… Using this site: http://fatcatart.ru/category/klassy-ka/ as a platform for ideas, and using […]
