Everything that does not have a home, just a big old stinking pile of posts.
NEWS FLASH! My wayback is back! Pretend you have found memories as a kid gawking at the dinosaur fossils on exhibit in the great hall of the Field Museum in Chicago. Your family vacation trip is planned to Chicago, and you wish to have your kids share the same experience. You know that Gorgeous George […]
This is a true story of a photo. Maybe not amazing, but it gave me pause, even a stop, to smile. My own tiny little bit of internet self serendipity. Yesterday I sat down at one of these WordPress screens to compose a post for the Creative Commons Certification site I’m working on. Like my […]
NEWS FLASH! My wayback is back! Let me first say that the Internet Archive is one of the most important, impressive crowning achievements we have for preserving and understanding what is truly a transient information space. And I rely regularly on the WayBack Machine to research, discover, and fall into interesting rabbit holes. And let […]
Score another one for having a personal archive. Or having a shred of a memory. I cannot say I follow the European Football Championships but did pick up a sense of the surprise victory by Iceland over England (skip all Brexit puns here). But something triggered when I saw this tweet that Pat Lockley re-tweeted […]
I never would have guessed I’d be in the internet rabbit hole triggered by an article in my ASU Alumni magazine. But in there I found “ASU releases photos of early Phoenix taken by McCulloch Brothers” describing a collection of 4500 photographs from 1884-1947 by two brothers who emigrated here from Scotland and ran a […]
My web warehouse has been emptied. In my first job in ed-tech, a 14 year stint as an instructional technologist at the Maricopa Community Colleges, I spawned a vast, messy array of web sites from 1993 until I left in 2006, hosted at http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu – that URL is retired, and should redirect to the center’s […]
For the second year iteration of our UDGAgora work with faculty from the University of Guadalajara, the schedule moved to the second day a presentation on openness Brian Lamb and had done in 2015 later in the week. Since 2003 Brian and I have done enough presentations together that we cannot remember them all, but […]
My Dad spent a lot of time in the yard. Pushing the lawnmower. Raking leaves. Trimming the forsythia bushes. I want to say I pondered him doing that and wondered what he thought about spending all those hours out there, but maybe that is more hindsight memory. But he definitely found his own rewards from […]
I don;t have much time or energy to do a big writeup, but seeing a DS106 Daily Create on remixing book covers, is hard to pass (well I knew about it since I put in the site, but that was a while again). I just scrolled through a long list of covers found in Google […]
It’s been more than a year since I ended a fellowship at Thompson Rivers University where Brian Lamb and I cooked up our SPLOT concept (what the SPLOT? See ’em at a lovely short URL or see the presentation we did at OpenEd 2015. They have been bubbling up slowly seeds of interest and people […]
