3228 Posts Categorized "Blog Pile"

Everything that does not have a home, just a big old stinking pile of posts.

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Leaving Your Own Domains

In August 2013, I summarized the status of the domains my previous 81 students at UMW had made. Few from 2012 kept their domains, and then, at 6 months after the Spring 2013 class had ended, 20 out of 22 of the blogs from the Spring 2013 class were still there. That was then. While […]

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Charting Spring Via Flickr Flower Photos


cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine

This is unreal, February 27, and the flowers are out on my plum tree. I knew it was crazy early, but was curious about the dates I had posted first plum tree flowers in previous years. Well actually I tweeted something about this, and Tony Hirst prompted me to futz around with my photo data

I had not tagged them consistently, but using the Flickr organizer, I was able to find the first photos each spring, and tagged them firstplumflower

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New Old New Media Art

The LAST thing I should be doing now is tossing out another unpaid project to work on, but oh well, I cannot help myself. cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine I was in Cambridge MA in 2010 for a meeting, and visited the MIT Press bookstore where I got […]

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Seed It Forward

This summer I enjoyed the growth and harvesting of sunflower seeds, and special ones at that- they came from an internet friend in Canada! Today, I assembled all of the photos (a lot) into a video The story behind the story behind the story… Last year my gardening/soundmixing/edteching/doodling friend Jason in Vancouver shared the outputs […]

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Old Gold Days at Maricopa

Jim Groom’s explorations for The Internet Course he is co-teaching with Paul Bond and Paul’s post on Gopher got me sroting the neurons and combing through the archives of my early 1990s days as an Instructional Technologist at the Maricopa Community College. Actually I started as a “Programmer Analyst / Instructional Systems”. I found on […]