I have been nursing a small, un-stated, un-announced, un=tweeted media project. It occurred to me that this is an interesting way of being creative. Just do something. Don’t make a splash. It’s a secret. Or it is a “recondite” project: This word has been in steady decline since it’s peak in 1850 Oh, yes, the […]
I never wanted to live in the plot of a dystopian present, but as those stones sang (a song swiped by the Orange Chupacabra), I’m not getting what I want. For weeks Jon Becker pined for the day Is it November 8 yet? — Jon Becker (@jonbecker) September 12, 2016 The day looked, sounded like […]
Like most internet rabbit holes, the opening door was innocuous. A colleague in a Slack channel made a cheery reference to something being like Jello (or Jell-O depending how you feel on product names as words). Jiggly, brightly colored, fun, playful jello. Almost by reflect, I was compelled to respond with a reference to how […]
Does anyone talk about WordPress Trackbacks anymore? They were the glue of blogging in the day. If I wrote a blog post with a link to something on your WordPress blog, you would get a notification and a link on the post that went back to mine. Maybe as close as we got to two […]
This one issue 2016 comic novel has zero value, it will be lost behind the couch, forgotten, and tossed into the recycling bin. We have had enough of mythical creatures, right? Enough? What is El Orange Chupacabra? Check WikiFibia: El orange chupacabra or (English pronunciation: [t?upa?ka??as], literally “attention-sucker”; from “chupar”, “to suck”, and “cabra”, “goat […]
This could not be a more cool surprise to see in my twitters this morning, on all days, one of uncertainty. Hey @cogdog – thanks for supporting our Visual Stickery campaign. Here's a doodle just for you 🙂 https://t.co/W989urusbA pic.twitter.com/E3h7xJ5I3O — Bryan Mathers – @bryanmmathers (@BryanMMathers) November 8, 2016 This I am certain of, though, […]
Some stories, films end so neatly, clearly understandable, leaving me not much to wonder. Others are so dense, artsy, deep, complex, that I’m left stunned, shrug, and move on. Between these two sides of a canyon, is a valley where the story does not wrap so neatly, but leaves the brain gears churning. The story […]
In a presentation last Friday at the 2016 Open Education Conference Paul Stacey and I described the Certification project as “Massive Open OER Development.” MOOD? People who know me know how much I think of acronyms that start with M-O-0… (that was meant to be wry humor) Hearing about @creativecommons ‘certificate’ prog – awesomeness with […]
In which this tired blogger fails to summarize a conference experience, and gives up before even trying… With clocks flipping in some corners of the world, last night I’m just home from a week in Virginia for the 2016 Open Education Conference. That’s it’s 13th iteration, maybe my fourth. Here is the usual conference after […]
It all starts with a tweet. From a friend. This is a clue as to where I am going. Colorado vineyard country threatened by oil and gas drilling plans wilderness https://t.co/T73QGaPbj7 via @sharethis @cogdog used your pix — Oogie McGuire (@OogieM) October 29, 2016 Oogie and her husband run Desert Weyr a ranch in Colorado […]
