Stay with me intrepid, devoted, or robotic scraping readers. I’ve got an associative trails journey to lay out here, all of which is made possible by the free, open web, the people who build onto it chunk by chunk, and the sheer joy of exploration. A highlight for me from last month’s OEGlobal 2024 Conference […]
Like a breath of fresh air comes the human created, not machine text extruded, words of Jay Hoffman’s post on The Free Web. That’s the thoughts of someone pounded out on keys, on an individual owned and managed web site, something I do not have to scrape through ads and pop overs to read. Fresh. […]
Composed while offline 14 hours on a trans pacific flight… While I playfully gasta-cated at OER24 for folks to put on the Get Federated t-shirt, I knew then and more now that it’s not going to be for everyone. “It’s too complicated reigns”. Where to Go? Hence the ongoing gnashing of “where to be”? The […]
I’ve not made much noise about traveling, but for what its worth I am in Brisbane, Australia where my organization is hosting the OEGlobal24 conference. I have skipped the long flight, the cute koalas, to try and quickly publish something that for weeks has felt like a mad idea. With a bit of virtual duct […]
I’m easy to toss shade at web sites who move/ change structures leaving swaths of linkrot or just do not flex their power of maintaining their own links. But in the pot name calling kettle department, I’ve got plenty of bad links under my name. So I get focussed on fixing them. One came to […]
A lot of presentation slides just slide on by. They just keep flowing. Next slide. Next presentation. Next gushing about AI solving… oops, not this post. Yet, every other once in a while, you hear a talk, indeed the kind that a person speaks, not just reads, that well shatters your status quo. That was […]
Out of somewhere came a childhood memory of a standardized test they gave us in elementary school, 1970s era. I did well on the test but I recall some analysis which said my skills would be best for some kind of bookkeeping or doing typing in my career. I was not thrilled by that given […]
Could there really be a world wide web without hyperlinks? To me, the most durable, valuable, and potentially serendipity laced magic ones are made and managed by an individual. All those “posts” tossed into LinkedIn, The Platform I Will Only Call Twitter, the One I don’t Use That has a face and a book in […]
After so many years of taking/making photography, from an undergraduate photography class at the University of Delaware, to a darkroom in my grad school apartment, to first digital photos with an Apple Quicktake, on through DSLRs, and the alluring capability of an iPhone 13, I’ve been firm on representing the world I see. Even if […]
I have a thing for cactuses… grammatically I ought to say “cacti” but that always sounds high brow. What did I know of them as a kid growing up in Baltimore? Nada. Maybe as cartoon scenery in Road Runner cartoons, and cliché background props of western movies. Here at our acreage in Saskatchewan, in the […]
