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All of my web work from 1992-2006 at the Maricopa Community Colleges was wiped from the web after I left. It was big pile of stuff for sure but it was the first of several experiences which informed me that institutions care about preserving the web much less than individuals. But when I left that […]
I tried really hard, really hard, to turn make cleaver use of Maslow’s Hammer as this post’s metaphoric title “if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail” And if you read this blog you will see my endless focus and writing about SPLOTs. No they are not the answer to anything […]
There is a pattern to my blogging where I think I am sitting down to write a post, then referring back to an older one, and finding it has a reference or link into it that links to one of my wikispaces sites that are all dead dead dead. Then I end up parsing through […]
I probably said elsewhere that something else I made online was my favorite thing, but today I am going to say it’s the pechaflickr site I made that combines random images from flickr with pechakucha. Even trying to describe it in words does not help, give it a spin. It’s built all from open pieces […]
It’s become a regular internet FOL (Fact of Life) that web sites, both information ones and web tools, seem to have a shorter and shorter shelf life. There was some good go arounds recently on those things that people wrote their own thoughts on before just tossing threads into twitter… I think they were called […]
Among my fleet of creaky old hand coded web sites like Feed2JS one of my favorite is the Five Card Flickr stories site that is just a few stories short of being 10 years old. I cannot even recall last time I checked in on it. A few days ago, I got this alert Howdy […]
Coming soon to a cpanel near you (if you are hosted by Reclaim Hosting) My favorite work over the last few years, spawned by the Open Learning Fellowship at TRU set up for me by Brian Lamb, has been the development of WordPress themes that turn a vanilla bloggy type site into a functional web […]
The practice of archiving or reclaiming the “stuff” one does on the web is mostly framed on the preservation of our stuff, after sharing it into some site one does not own nor manage, chosen because it was easiest. Easy has a price. We saw that in a short time span earlier this year when […]
Talk about recursive web history… Digg Reader bit the dust this week, five years after it came to be in the aftermath of Google burying its own RSS reader. I won’t even search my own blog, I know there are many rants about Google’s decision. Yet on seeing the notice just two weeks ago that […]
How many more times do people have to get stiffed by a free web service that just bites the dust and leaves you bubkas? What follows is a monster post. You will find me ranting ar companies like Storify who offer free services that leverage our efforts building content and then they develop enough value […]
