Everything that does not have a home, just a big old stinking pile of posts.
I’ve been thinking of starting a blog, but have hesitated because who really wants to read what goes on in my head and in my classroom? Or maybe not just schools, maybe its society. When teachers pop out of university system, sent on a mission to shape young minds, the factory products have been stamped […]
I’m reading a book right now. You know the interface design? A written work of ideas, printed to granular containers of text (called “pages”) with an intuitive navigation system. Yet I am thinking in the back of my mind the recent discussions a bunch of us are having about the History of Hypertext led by […]
“Hey, why should I be on the Internet?” “By the time I am in college, the internet will be our telephone..” “television…” “shopping centers…” “and workplace.” “And it’s already got more stuff on it than you can possible imagine.” Pretty obvious, right? You might be reading this on your phone at work. Gartner already charted […]
My idea for this remix is likely better than the execution. The FineBros has a brilliant series of Kids React videos where modern youth try to make sense of past culture, toys, and technology. They seem to average like 9 kazillion views per video; I’m lucky if I hit double digits. In some research for […]
My next talk for the TCC 2015 conference (the 20th one) has me digging in the catacombs of web history; I was looking trough my files for what I had from my talks in 1996. I have a fairly complete archive of stuff I did from my stints at the Maricopa Community Colleges (1992-2006) and […]
Yeah, those free web services that give you so much if you give them your content. A salute to 35 Dead Web Services. I could have added many kore, but I got tired. Who knows where the idea came from? Maybe it was some media making tool someone tweeted named after nuts. And I got […]
In the process of making my last post I was compelled for reasons not work explaining to generate an animated GIF using as an overlay, the numbers display like in the movie The Matrix. I really do not need to link or embed that, do I? I did find what I was looking for searching […]
I almost missed this tweet. User 740343 | @cogdog | Created Wed Jan 31 21:24:02 2007 — Every User (@Every_User_) February 22, 2015 With apologies to John Entwistle My name is 740343, And I’ve just become alive I’m the newest populator Of the planet we call Twitter Following the curiosity link for @Every_user I find […]
Blame Mike… https://twitter.com/holden/status/568875343165071360 How can I avoid such a calling? AT&T’s 1983 rollout of the Viewtron System and Sceptre Videotex Terminal hits it all- information overload, online shopping, banking, and school, all with majorly poofy hair, and maybe some of the best eyebrow raises in corporate video history and some background upbeat midi music that […]
Why not? Because thanks to an open source emulator called “Sheep Shaver” and the various packages others created with it. I just launched a classic OS 9 environment on my 2014 MacBook Pro. I first installed oone version that included apps like Claris Works, but it lacked HyperCard. Then I found another one from James […]
