Everything that does not have a home, just a big old stinking pile of posts.
Black Gold Direct From Brazil by cogdogblog posted 17 Jan ’09, 9.50am MST PST on flickr What a gracious thing Carla did after leaving a comment on my breakfast photo– she offered to send me some favorite dark coffees from Brazil, and here they are on my porch in Strawberry, Arizona (better daylight for a […]
You Do What You Have to Do by cogdogblog posted 14 Jan ’09, 10.37pm MST PST on flickr Driving down to Phoenix tonight I stopped at a local Circle-K for some coffee and bottled water. I was surprised that the guy at the check out register was Dave, the guy I usually see down the […]
I think I should read a book at Sunday breakfast rather than sneak peeks at twitter (actually I read for an hour on the porch this morning before even opening the laptop). I saw a tweet from Tony Hirst: This Mac Head could not resist, and then Tony asked for some sort of review by […]
In preparation for an upcoming presentation at the 2009 EDUCAUSE ELI annual conference, I’ve been noodling away at this question that may seem rather pointless or obvious. I’ve been at this very same blog since April 2003, so maybe it is “just what I do here”.
cc licensed flickr photo by Earl – What I Saw 2.0
In the past, somewhere I’d muttered about it being a verb AND a noun (c.f. “a dessert and a floor wax”). I am not looking to wallow in definitions, but wanting to parse out once tendency to think of blogging as something you do in blog software and maybe another to think of it more broadly as “personal publishing”. The scene gets muddier as we see people doing blog-like things in Facebook, tiny bits in twitter, and all of it recast resyndicated remixed in places like FriendFeed, Tumblr, etc. I always like to pull out the fringe concept, now pretty old, of “comment blogging” someone who publishes in the comment space of other blog sites.
And while this blog started in 2003- I think the manual web site I spun by hand our of raw HTML in 2000 is pretty much a blog. Or blogging. Or both.
So like the young child’s basic questioning at Passover (did you know by the way there are more than 300 language translations of the four questions??) I am just playing with this question.
I have had this germ of an idea for a while as I had tried a number of times this year to post longer, blog like captions in my flickr photos. Might this be called “slow flickr-ing?” And I wanted to see if there were ways to do blog-like publishing in things that are not blogs.
And what follows are four examples.
Don’t ask what I was looking for, but in rummaging through some tagged links, I ended up laughing at this duck: coming from the LOL Diabetes site. LOLCats ain’t nothing compared to one sporting an insulin pump. Duck it all. File this one also in the “there is a web niche for everything” department. Side […]
Damn. I thought if I kept my head down low enough, I’d avoid being tagged by the “Seven things you don’t know about me” meme. My plan was working perfectly, and out of nowhere, whap! Rob Wall smacks me. Seriously, if there is such a thing around this blog taken as serious– I enjoy reading […]
I got something in the mail yesterday that moved me so much, it has taken another day to get to blog about it (is that slow enough for the slow blogging crowd). I have to weave a back story before I get to the punch line about getting something back (not tangible, but emotional) for […]
The New Office Backbone by cogdogblog posted 6 Jan ’09, 11.11pm MST PST on flickr Last night I re-wired my home network with a new Apple Airport Extreme — an 802.11n speed network hub, it is then hard wired to my older Airport (left) which serves the premises 802.11b/g speeds for the iPhone and guests […]
What do they have in common? In the past I have sported one but would not be caught dead wearing one now. There is value, however, in sharing a list of the blogs you read or subscribe to, it’s just sidebar clutter is not really the best place. On some long frequency wavelength, I remember […]
I have to admire and respect the radical gusto with which Stephen Downes postulates What Not To Build — it matters not even if I agree or disagree (which I do), is that he puts out there no holds barred, as he has done for longer than some of you kids have known what a […]
