Everything that does not have a home, just a big old stinking pile of posts.
I blame Google Calendar. Yeah. Sometime last year (?) I started seeing on my GCal the birthdays of other people who I guess are in my G+ circles? Contacts? Who knows with Google/Alphabet/Whatevertheyarecalled now? Stuff just appears. Monday I spotted this in my calendar: Look at that, Thursday is Maha Bali’s birthday. Wow, it would […]
Inventive kid Builds Electronic clock. Takes To School to Share. Administrators Panic. BOMB! Kid Handcuffed by Cops. Rage Breaks Out In Twitter (Facebook frets over button). Our collective cycle of social ignorance/stupidity/racism/ goes sadly through another Lather Rinse (Do Not Learn from Mistakes) cycle. I’m not going to summarize the story of Ahmed, it’s easy […]
All it takes is alarm clocks and coffee. No, alarm clocks, coffee, and a relatively small group of interesting, geographically dispersed people. And some google hangouts. And now a Slack with snarky bots. Last week the geometrically growing Virtually Connecting was set up for several live sessions from participants at the ALT Conference (Association for […]
Just for fun, published to medium… I Can’t Do Much About Internet Spam (But making fun of them makes me feel better) Top / Featured Image Credit: My Photoshop remix of an image spammed at me via twitter. In my book, spammers have no rights at all least of all rights to prevent me from […]
I do not even want to look to find out the last time I officially completed a ds106 assignment (probably last time I taught, Spring 2014). But I was so inspired by Bill Genereux’s new one, A Scene We Didn’t Get To See: Create a short video that shows a scene from your favorite TV […]
This year is the fourth iteration of a course in the Netherlands that I support remotely with Nancy White. Offered at the Hague University of Applied Sciences in the Industrial Design Engineering (IDE) program: Project Community is a project, a community and a set of tools for using online communities and networks for enhancing the […]
I so adore Maria Popova’s Brain Pickings though she is so prolific, my reading is always lagging. But the weekly summary in my email, jaunted me to read The American Scholar: Emerson’s Superb Speech on the Life of the Mind, the Art of Creative Reading, and the Building Blocks of Genius. The reason being the […]
Today marks the 1333th DS106 Daily Create— it has not missed a beat since TDC1 on January 8, 2012. There will be one tomorrow, and the day after that, and the… … with subtle switch coming up officially Thursday. We are switching it to a new site that continues the practice but changes, and hopefully […]
I do not think Feldspar is going to hear any wailing from me for a while… In her typical “never do anything the easy way” Amy Burvall delivered me a lavishly animated (all the colors- black, pink, AND white) video of not just a story of connection, but ten of them: She’s got everything from […]
Plug yer ears. It’s another Alan cover song. And its pretty horrible. This one has been in my mind a while. First, I really really like Cracker’s song Teen Angst, it’s a rocker and a half (and the video even has a dalmatian running around in it) with that lyric What the world needs now, […]
