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Sydney Meetup, Walk, Whatever

If you are in Sydney on Saturday and game to play dodge the pilgrammage crowd game, then join me and my NMC colleagues for a walk somewhere on a beach or around the harbor… er “harbour”. That’s th eplace with the funky curve building. I think they do art stuff there or maybe it is […]

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The Web in 2008

State of the Web 2008 by cogdogblog posted 9 Jul ’08, 11.32pm MDT PST on flickr What a great presentation of web trends, with extra snark! 0at.org/summer-2008.html "This was created on a cloudy afternoon in Seattle by Matthew Inman of 0at.org" linktribution to the Shifted Librarian fun fun fun

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Meeting Leigh

Meeting Leigh by cogdogblog posted 9 Jul ’08, 1.33pm MDT PST on flickr At the welcome dinner for Horizon.au, I finnaly got to meet in person, Leigh Blackall… now I am more eager to find my way back to New Zealand.

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Traveling Through The Body Ringer

dirty wet rag by norwichforlife posted 11 Apr ’07, 8.26pm MDT PST on flickr norwich state Dispatch for Melbourne Australia, Monday July 7- Just arriving here in Australia has been both exciting and exhausting. I’ve done the long leg flights several times now (LA to Sydney and the marathon, LA to Melbourne) and am glad […]

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Swurl… Small Pieces Nicely? Lovely? Easily? Joined

I’m not sure what to call the breed of web tools that enable you to draw in content from other web X.0 sites automatically– some call them lifestream (maybe not, wikipedia lands you somewhere else) more like http://lifestreamblog.com/.

Swurl is a new one and I am liking its elegance. I get my requisite custom URL and give it my username at a few web services, then I can toss in some customization like colors, banners… I just plopped the image I use from this blog:

What is less subtle is that there are no links to see more pages…. as you scroll down content keeps coming in, the river of stuff, like it has no end. Also, what I really liked, is that snce I gave it my accounts, some which have been used for a long time like flickr and del.icio.us, it goes way back in my internet life. I am looking at my tabs, and wondering what the heck it might have grabbed from 2001 especially since flickr was around only since 2004.

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Slimming the Listservs

If the web is at 2.0, then listserv technology must be at a fractional decimal too small to bother writing. I first experienced them around 1988 as a graduate student at Arizona State University- heck it was even before full internet, as my email address was on BITNET. I helped a prof administer a listerv […]

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Still Cannot Break Up With Twitter

As much as I like to poke fun at twitter’s reliable flakiness and curse the fail whale… For inexplicable reasons, I stay. Again, twitter is not essential. My days go in fine with or without it. What value is it? No… scratch all of that. Twitter just saved me from a huge gaffe. And it […]

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CogDogBlog Wordle

CogDogBlog Wordle by cogdogblog posted 1 Jul ’08, 6.26pm MDT PST on flickr Wordle is a way cool visualization tool for making gorgeous tag clouds form text. Like many people, I did the easy thing first- a wordle made from my del.icio.us tags and then played with a not so easy to use tool to […]

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Go Fresa Go!

Make Fresa Number 1 on the Pet Charts! by cogdogblog posted 1 Jul ’08, 11.28am MDT PST on flickr I got a comment yesterday on a flickr photo of Fresa The Cute Beagle letting me know her photo was part of a contest at Purina! Congratulations, your photo made the Pet Charts for 7/1/2008! Vote […]