Everything that does not have a home, just a big old stinking pile of posts.
In the vein of last February’s WordPress Dissection where I detailed the ripping apart and patching together of a WP template, here’s another bit if funny business I recently did in my favorite technology tool. More or less, I have a main WP site, with a nested second complete WP site sitting inside of it, […]
For people who mock web 2.0 (heck that includes me), look- you can make a world out of all of those logos! See the Map of the World 2.0, made of 1001 web app logos. This comes from AppAppeal a site that catalogs and reviews web 2.0 sites. See you can do something useful with […]
Hordes of edubloggers and more are descending on San Antonio for the NECC 2008 show (“the National Educational Computing Conference, the world’s largest educational technology conference for teachers and technology coordinators”). They will be a’blogging, twittering, flickring, tagging, ning-ing… see Vicki Davis’ coverage plan via netvibes. Colleagues like Hey Jude Judy O’Connell are winging in […]
Setting Up Gigapan by cogdogblog posted 22 Jun ’08, 8.37pm MDT PST on flickr I set out today to give a test ride to a new camera device, the GigaPan, a computer controlled camera mount designed to make large detailed images of landscapes and such. However, it;s a long story, but I am without my […]
While swapping google map locations with my new buddy Rowan, I notice a few new buttons on Google Maps- you can now see embedded links to WikiPedia articles about places and links to photos (enable under the More button), plus there is a direct link to view a map location in Google Earth.
So being the curious type, I zoomed in on my location near Strawberry, and explored…
CDB readers know my affinity for stories of web serendipity; strange or wonderful connections made that otherwise would have not happened without this “internet” thing- here’s another gem. I’ve forgotten where I first stumbled across on slideshare Power Point 20th Anniversary Cinderella. In 19 slides of lengthly bullet points, inscrutable charts, and exposition, it tells […]
The subtitle might be, “Curse You Twitter For Letting Me Down”. Or much worse than, “curse you”.
But actually, its more of a shrug. As much as I like poking fun at flickr’s flakiness, it does not cause me loss of sleep or hair, as pretty much it is not truly essential to me work/life. But more than that, the vagaries of external sites can either break your heart or spurn you into adrenaline mode to find a fix or just … I promote the use of such tools, but its not the foundation I build my sand castles in, and the hard lesson is that the sand can shift under your feet. What can you do? Cry? Pray? Drink?
What should follow here is a bit of sharing of two social media sites that flopped on me surrounding the 2008 NMC Summer Conference. But first a bit on the social tools wrap around on conferences, which has certainly come to be expected (for some) to have conference tags, nings, wikis, tweet catchers, etc. I set it up again this year for Tag This Conference using my own Feed2JS to pull in stuff from flickr, technorati (does that even still work?), and del.icio.us, plus tossing in a tumblog and friend feed for the heck of it.
I’ve been wrangling that for the last 2 years around the NMC conferences, asking people to tag flickr photos, blog posts, del.icio.us web sites. I’d say it is moderately successful, though in retrospect, a rather small number of people actually do it, even among an ed-tech attended event. I feel often the lonely tagger about 75% of the tagging, sigh.
That was always baffled me. At one time I combed through the flickr and del.icious tags at both an NMC and an EDUCAUSE conference, and (damn I cannot find my own ol blog post) recall that the percentage of participants tagging was like 2 or 3%. I never did find any tool to tell me in these services how many people used a tag, I did it by paging through content and writing numbers on paper. That is so Web 0.1.
But back to the NMC conference.
No Blog No Read by cogdogblog posted 20 Jun ’08, 9.11am MDT PST on flickr With travel and being busy at the 2008 NMC Summer Conference, my blog posting sputtered off between June 7 and 14 with no posts, and my stats show the consequences. Interesting as there is lag in readership? Peak was on […]
The Bridge by cogdogblog posted 28 Oct ’07, 8.29pm MDT PST on flickr Sydney If you are in Sydney July 19, how about meeting up with myself and NMC colleagues Larry Johnson and Rachel Smith? We are traveling down under July 5-20 as we launch a new Horizon.au project with a meeting in Melbourne (a […]
Button for Jim Groom by cogdogblog posted 15 Jun ’08, 7.54pm MDT PST on flickr Her ya go, Reverend Jim, fresh off the Photoshop machine, courtesy of a "punk rock saved my life" pin found at Wooden Shoes Books and Records on 4th Street in Philly. As if we needed more blog fluff for edupunk, […]
