Everything that does not have a home, just a big old stinking pile of posts.
New Flickr mobile by cogdogblog posted 5 Dec ’08, 9.25am MST PST on flickr Flickr has spiffed up their mobile page see m.Flickr.com including video playback! The new flickr mobile url is worth adding to the iPhone desktop icons. I was eager to see some of my videos, but missed the fine print that it […]
Good / Bad by cogdogblog posted 5 Dec ’08, 12.11am MST PST on flickr This has been a year of travel clocking close to 60k miles so far in 2008. I wanted to take this opportunity to hang some travel providers on appropriate hooks (I seem to be lacking a hook for “Ugly”) for my […]
Functional Simple Web Design by cogdogblog posted 27 Nov ’08, 11.00pm MST PST on flickr No frills, but in zero clicks, goingtorain.com/ gives you your local weather forecast (detects location via IP address). Maybe it is the start of some new minimalistic zen of web design… Linktribution to Mashable.com
4:00 PM by cogdogblog posted 27 Nov ’08, 9.08am MST PST on flickr That means another glorious aristict sunset in Iceland. On this day of giving thanks, I give mine for this world, and all that it unveils, from a simple un-assuming sky, to unexpected treasures you were not asking for, to perhaps a place […]
In my everyday technology browsing I see a fair number of interesting tools, sites, ideas, that come my way via RSS, twitter, etc. A lot of them I give a quick look, say “Hmm”, tag ’em, and move on.
Besides almost every post of unbelievable wizardry and in depth explanation of Tony Hirst, not often are there things that just knock me over breathless. Maybe I have been drinking the Web 2.0 Koolaid for too long.
I had one of those “wow” moments tonight with something that came out of the blue. I’ll share it all, and am curious if my excitement is misplaced or not (would not be the first time)
Like many others, I have had my “Wordle Moment” which is another example of this phenomena. The stunning visualization effects of making word clouds out of plain text is nothing short of astounding, and it not your grandfather’s tag cloud.
Beyond a few plays with it like many people do, it’s been more fun than function (nothing wrong). I did use it just yesterday to create a graphic banner for a new site related to tagging. But I thought Wordle took it up a notch when I saw how you could have it generate a cloud based on an RSS feed:
The thing tht caught my eye my there was the prominence of “Tigger” over “Eyeore” because in that week I had one post about these characters and two more piggy pack posts echoing.
But that was also the last time I ventured down to Pooh Corner in this blog, which prompted my to ponder in that post:
The uber nifty Wordle tag cloud generator now can take any URL that has an RSS feed and generate one of those lovely word maps of content.
Here is what the latest blabber from CogDogBlog has in it- heavily weighted by my serious examination of the Pooh- Eeyore Debate.
What would be cool is to grab a time series of these to see how word use changes over time.
And way down in the comments, Jason Priem mentioned he was working on some code to generate visualizations of tag clouds over time.
Wow, the new interface for Google Maps Streetview is very slick! It fills the entire map frame, and you get a spinny controller (like in Google Earth) to rotate your view, plus drag and clicking the mouses gives a tilt-pan effect. So you can zoom down streets! I decided to pay a visit to the […]
Pushing the Day Out by cogdogblog posted 24 Nov ’08, 6.26am MST PST on flickr Bring me warmth and light to push out this cold Icelandic night… Nothing like a glorious sunrise to get the week started off right (good and plentiful coffee are right up there as well). One advantage of this time here […]
I have an idea how some rag tag blog army can storm the castle of the Walled Garden Content Horders and do some damage. Maybe. It is likely a dumb idea that someone will poke the Hummer sized holes in. This just flickered n when I read Clarence Fisher’s Twitter gripe: What he is saying […]
How cool is this (and found via a tweet from Barbara Sawhill– twitterbution!)? Barbara Ganley splashes the New York Times on its story of Haste, Scorned: Blogging at a Snail’s Pace: When Barbara Ganley wants to collect her thoughts, she walks in the Vermont countryside, wanders home and blogs about it. In a recent post, […]
George Siemens is fine despite his sparsely titled circa telegraph text post Need help in which he asks some super broad (yes important) questions: I often hear educators talking about “education needs to change” (I do it too). This is the case for the K-12, higher education, and corporate training/education markets. As a small research […]
