Everything that does not have a home, just a big old stinking pile of posts.
Sometime last year before my trip to Australia, I discovered the amazing work Al Upton was doing with year 3 students at at Adelaide Australia primary school. The 8 and 9 year old “miniLegends” were blogging, doing creative writing, and getting a fabulous experience in web technology. So it was exciting this year when Al […]
Steven Johson and Henry Jenkins by cogdogblog posted 8 Mar ’08, 7.41pm MST PST on flickr Opening remarks by Steve Johnson and Henry Jenkins were excellent! What a killer lineup! And look, no Powerpoint! It was just Steve and Henry having a conversation in front of maybe1000 people. Jenkins is just so articulate in a […]
Late in the afternoon I lurked in the session on “Cross-Media Cross-Pollination: Mashing Up Video Games and ARGs” a panel session with Tony Walsh (Phantom Compass), Dan Hon (Six to Start), Dee Cook (addlepated.net) all people involved with creating top shelf ARGs (look it up yourself). It seemed the audience was pretty knowledgeable about Alternate […]
Mmmmm, another mutated strand of 5 things meme got batted my way from Alisa. I’ve got a lukewarm thing about such things. Over the years I have never forwarded those email things which warned an anvil would drop from the sky on this coyote if I failed to forward. Well, maybe it did. But I’ll […]
I have gone deep into the iPod touch loveness. It is a thing of sweetness to not only touch but to use functionally. Plus until now my iPods have been bottom of the rack cheapies. It was watching D’arcy Norman blog and twitter (and who knows, code drupal?) at Northern Voice that pushed me over […]
Leaving Vancouver by cogdogblog posted 2 Mar ’08, 12.39am MST PST on flickr It was an Arizona blue sky day for a departure from Vancouver. I looked back from my seat to take in one more glance at where I was the last 10 days. Oh my gosh- visit to MDM program at Great Northern […]
It may look like I knew what I was doing with this guitar at the Northern Voice EduGlu Blues JamFest, but rest assured, you most likely dont want to ask for a recording (there was none)- but just holding a guitar, for me, is a sensual experience. And a nostalgic one. So I am thinking […]
The Answer is Not Good by cogdogblog posted 29 Feb ’08, 9.56am MST PST on flickr Yes, is not good istwitterdown.com/ Link leads to Scalable Internet Architectures (Developer’s Library) I am getting the shakes. I guess its time to run over to Jaiku and Pownce and commiserate among the other Twitter Addicts
Where in the World is Google Reader? by cogdogblog posted 28 Feb ’08, 9.24am MST PST on flickr Why has Google Reader been banished from my navigation? Its not even listed on the More Google Products – it seems to not exist. Though it is alive and well at www.google.com/reader Maybe it is a game.
Search ‘n Spell by cogdogblog posted 26 Feb ’08, 9.16pm MST PST on flickr Google is so damn smart- it took this mangled low light typing and managed to sort out what I was looking for: www.google.ca/search?q=6+mile+pub+ictgoria a pub in Victoria (not "ictogoria") www.sixmilepub.com
