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Packing the Doggie Bags
flickr foto Pass the Sulfur, Pleaseavailable on my flickr
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Everything that does not have a home, just a big old stinking pile of posts.
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Rightly Writely
I repeat myself, but wow, do I love Writely, the shared web word processor. A few nights ago, I go an email invite to edit a Writely document– this came from Phil Long at MIT, and I followed the link in to edit a document we has creating to use as a demo presentation. How […]
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Commenting As Blogging
I’ve often asserted that blogging is a social process, that the mere publishing, caterwauling, prettying up templates, is only a piece of it– blogging is also participating in other people’s blogs. There is nothing that will energize a budding blogger more than getting feedback, and the impact is even larger when it comes from someone […]
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Phone In Your Pocket: Five Minutes of Fame
The closing sessions of the EDUCAUSE ELI conference was the New Media Consortium’s release of the 2006 Horizon Report on Emerging Technologies. This was the second year I was on the advisory board, and this year we notched it up quite a bit by doing all of our collaboration on a wiki at MIT. This […]
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Fish Tacos Served
TACO HOUSE! Originally uploaded by larowebr. Brian and I had a filled room for our session on Beyond Blogs. It was a blast and we were honored to have a great audience, many of them bloggers we’ve only had virtual connections to… but since I am trying to listen t other sesstions, the post game […]
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Losing My Taste Buds
Is it just me or is it lately that del.icio.us is getting wonky? My links pictured below are…. not so…. tasty. Hasn’t the infusion of Yahoo bucks had an effect? Maybe it has gotten too popular. Maybe it is the time of day, phases of the moon.The free love the net gives can get testy […]
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Three Rules of RSS Publishing.
1. Validate 2. Validate 3. Validate If you are doing anything in terms of publishing RSS feeds, from blogs, for podcasts, etc, keep posted in front of you a reminder to start and continually running your published feeds through a feed validator. Problems may not be visible, as many News Readers are forgiving on RSS […]
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Weird Flash Install Instructions
Upgrading to Flash Player 8 for Mac OSX– follow these instructions: Among the billions of reasons I primarily use a Mac is that I do not need to go ask some IT department to give me permission to do something to my computer. In fact it is usually the reverse- when something wants to run […]
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Totally Underwhelmed: Flickr Backuppr
Flickr Backuppr Originally uploaded by cogdogblog. I received my flickr DVD backup created by emblaze and while I like having this backup of the pictures, I think about the best part is the priting of the label. Some things I find underwhelming are: The format of the disk is a few folders for my image […]
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Do I Smell More AJAX in My Flickr Photos?
One of the joys of flickr is discovering new features the web elves have slipped in in there. The one I discovered likely has been there a long time… but I just noticed then when you are viewing an image that is part of a set, say one of my flower shots of a tulip […]