Everything that does not have a home, just a big old stinking pile of posts.
On the Couches for Learning 2.008 by cogdogblog posted 31 Aug ’08, 9.04am MDT PST on flickr Just finished an early morning (for me, others in Asia it was evening) pre-conference session leading up to the Learning 2.008 Conference in Shanghai- I was a guest along with David Warlick whom I have to go all […]
John P of One Mans Blog (great tagline: Specialization is for Insects) was a busy camera guy at WordCamp 2008. I just got word (via a flickr comment) that the video of my session on It’s All You Can WordPress at the EduBlog Diner is now on viddler (and not exactly as it was/is billed […]
flickr photo Autoretrato com Colorado by Paulo Brabo
Maybe two months from now will mark the 15th year I have been on the web. This will be October 29, exactly at 10:30am, 15 years to the minute when I inserted a floppy disk labeled “Mosaic” (in perhaps a Mac Quadra 900) that my Maricopa colleague Jim Walters had handed me, and had said, just with a smile, “Try this”.
Profound moment indeed.
In all this time, I have never lost a shred of excitement over those crazy serendipity happenings, connections, opportunities, that present themselves only because the web was there. Things that would not have happened otherwise, in that creepy parallel universe where there is no internet, no world wide web.
So I am going to toss out a few and see if others pick up and share there own. My stipulation is that each story much have a link to an artifact of the story. Cause if there ain’t a link, its not a web.
I have tons of stories, but will keep it to three.
NOTE: Was I ever wrong and offbase on this one. Thanks to rapid responses to the Foxmarks folks on GetSatisfaction site, it looks like the culprit now is the delicious.com extension, which is now disabled and the beachballs / long syncs are gone. Sigh. My humble apologies to the makers of Foxmarks Doesn’t Uninstall mean […]
I love tagging and still persist in vain hopes that I can encourage others to do some shared tagging, but feel lucky if I can get a handful of people to use a single tag. I am regularly tagging web sites in delicious with tags destined to be repurposed on at least 10 different web […]
Holy iPhone Screen Shots by cogdogblog posted 25 Aug ’08, 11.56pm MDT PST on flickr Enough n00b me trying to capture iPhone screens via a photo from my camera. Via comment by Guy K just press Power and Home button together: blog.guykawasaki.com/2008/08/the-art-of-ipho.html Compare to flickr.com/photos/cogdog/2798321033/ Emailed as if magic from my iPhone
Almost be sheer accident I just came across Qipit a service that allows you to take photos of sketches or whiteboards with your camera phone, email it to their site, and then have it available as a PDF or even be able to fax it. Chances are, you carry a cell phone with you everywhere […]
photo credit: *TreMichLan* When you send an email (and it does not bounce back) you likely have the assumption it got to the intended person. If they never respond, do you begin conjuring stories? “Why did he ignore my request?” … “I hate companies that don’t reply to consumer”… “I guess she does not like […]
I almost started to say something like “I Can’t” but I can’t do that. But I honestly know that organizational stuff (like keeping things neatly in file and making to do lists) are just practices I don’t gravitate to. The inane tweet above was more a mis-placed assumption that the GTD “movement” seems to end […]
photo credit: minifig A post I made to the Apple Discussion forums this morning has been shown the back door, and I guess I have been slapped. They took my post off their site, who gives a rat’s arse when I can publish it here? I posted something because I have been stumped through other […]
