Word traveling seeds, now is there a metaphor? Back in 2013, Jason Toal blogged a offer to send some sunflower seeds he had harvested in Vnacouver to anyone who commented on his blog. The idea was that when they harvested, they would “seed it forward” to others. And to trace credit, the idea was inspired […]
I do have a pile of things I have dreams of writing about, but my blog queue is not a FILO system. Tonight’s dinner was in front of the RSS Reader, where I was impressed reading Clint Lalonde’s post Of Bikes and Books with his efforts this year to bike ride more, lose weight,and read […]
I cannot offer a rationale explanation why I have spent a chunk of time since Sunday trying to animate a book cover. But I can tell you that once the idea of it materialized in my brain, I could not let it go. Expect another overly long, typo-ridden blog post of explanation. But for now, […]
WordPress is a long running machine, and in most of my 11 year experience using it, have found it rather forgiving with old code and themes. With the 4.7 WordPress update, I have been seeing a problem with the Feed WordPress plugin, and despite a fix I found that cleared the error, tonight I found […]
This Tuesday marks the culmination of our second year of the UDG Agora project, maybe one of the best projects I have been ever part of for professional, collaborative, cultural, and human reasons. It is also one that will likely never make a splash in any academic marquee publishing space. The project is a significant […]
Nothing earth shaking or melting here, but an answer to an annoyance I have with some uses of Google Forms. I hate un-necessary scrolling. When you have the results go to a spreadsheet, one of the bothersome things is that new data gets added to the bottom. At some level, that means that I always […]
Is it all about the licenses? Many explanations of Creative Commons make it sounds simple, walk through the questions of the chooser, and out plops the correct license. Go share. It does work well. But deeper understanding often leads to greyer area, where the answers spiral down to technical and jargon related insider language. We […]
You can feed anything you want at any WordPress blog You can feed anything you want at any WordPress blog Right on the URL, tack on “feed” Syndicated almost anything you need You can feed anything you want at any WordPress blog Bear with me on Chapter 156 of my WordPress love. And for RSS. […]
Did you ever have an idea you were so excited about that you feel like your head my burst? When you try to share it with your friends, colleagues, it comes out sounding like a random burst of mashed up radio transmissions? Maybe you are a resident of the Cuckoos Nest. In a break from […]
Maybe it’s post US election / brexit hangover information / fake news fatigue. Or the end of the year wind down. Or something else. But I sense changes into the online space I have inhabited the most for the last 9 years. A chunk of the public discussion and banter I enjoy has maybe slipped […]
