Way out here on the marginal reaches of the withering web, the connections that weave together are of statistical aberration, where no language model of any size would draw a path. As thus it was following the adventures of Stephen Downes as he bicycles around Iceland that got me thinking of places I saw there […]
My wandering down into Web Rabbit Holes of interest happend much more frequently than the rate of blog posts. It’s where I find the most sanity in the pile of poop much (but not all) of the web is piled with. It started with a Mastodon post by Bonni Stachowiak referencing her own post on […]
In the fuzz of being laid horizontal on the couch with a flu that feels worse than covid, I glanced at the phone noticing an app I had not opened in maybe 8+ years (is there a name for these apps we just leave dusty on devices). It’s called “Virtual Painter” and is in a […]
… are the ones you dig yourself. After more years than I prefer to calculate, little matches the joy and super charge energy of a session of web rabbit holing, of hopping from one link to another, and finding something at the other end I might never have thought existed. That’s what the web, with […]
For an ever diminishing number of web heads, this phrase will generate a connotation with not even an explanation or link needed — “Bags of Gold.” Anyone? I for one was in that Robson Square conference room in Vancouver at the 2009 OpenEd Conference, for Gardner Campbell’s talk on No Digital Facelifts: Thinking the Unthinkable […]
“Raildog is the Ansr” but the question is how the heck did I end up following a curiosity trail where logic and the dull stasticical parroting of GenAI leaves a mind wanting? I blame / credit Jim Groom. He posted today of his pleasure in the saner mode of travel. It got me thinking to […]
My dreams continue of an epic long blog post story of my journeys through digital storytelling, yet every thread ends up being a tangent worth chasing worthy of its own post. Yesterday it was the CoolIris gizmo I resurrected for 50 Web Ways to Tell a Story and today it was a pivotal conference I […]
Who would not answer “yes” when asked if they would like a dose of serendipity. A word that conjures a bit of magic. A rather well worn tag around here. So I am coming back again to relish in my own weird obsession, not saving vats of time asking LLMs to do my tasks but […]
I will take the castigation for my ongoing use of Google Chrome as a web browser in 2026, mainly because of all the work flows and systems I have come to use over the years. One of these, maybe the most precious, is the one that distracts me from tasks. That;s right, because when most […]
This is the time of year for bloggers to be doing their year end deep reflection recaps, tallying up the numbers of posts, comments, and meticulously charting their data trends for how many eyeballs glanced at their pages. Or its making a list of the “best”posts from the year or how many books, films, music […]
