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Brandon (1998 Web Exhibit)
This web exhibit centering on the tragic story of Teena Brandon was commissioned by the Guggenheim Museum a year before Brandon’s story was popularized in the movie Boys Don’t Cry
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Bushwhacking Through “We Make the Road by Walking”
Even before knowing what the book was about, the title of “We Make the Road by Walking” (being run now by as a Bryan Alexander dispersed book club) intrigued me by its rich metaphor title. Sidebar: I’ll be tagging these posts hortonfreire after twitter hashtag of same name When I get to teach students who […]
Creative Commons Certification, Syndicated
Turning Piles of Resource Links into a Dynamic Resource
Lists of links… the desire to “curate” lists of web resources is almost as old as the web itself; in our project can we turn the output of resource collection into an open resource itself? Bear with me on probably a bit too much back story… Back in 1993, my first exposure into the web […]
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The Minimalist Telegra.ph Writer
No accounts, no logins, no personal information needed. It’s almost SPLOT-like, this zen-ish http://telegra.ph/. Almost nothing on the screen. There is no resemblance to some other mid-sized writing platform You can put your name on the author line or not. Once you publish, you can only edit while your session is active in the browser. […]
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The [Not So] Lost Recipe of Grandma’s Split Pea Soup
Yes, here comes yet another family memory story about my grandmother, who shall be referred to usually as “granny”. I’m still working through the adaption to TapeWrite of her telling them recorded in 1994. Another long ago memory came to me a few weeks ago, the taste of her thick split pea soup. As a […]
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Free(ish) Images, Not Open. For 300,000 Bones
It does make a decent news story to announce the offering of a free, as in no cost to taxpayers, database of local photos for a city. https://twitter.com/ResearchBuzz/status/800020936380403713 “Freely Available” is… well ok. As told in the story from Albuquerque TV station KOB4: Stunning images of Albuquerque and surrounding areas aren’t hard to come by, […]
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The Excuse For Not Scanning Old Photos May Be Now Dismissed
If you were born in a century beginning with a “19” then you likely have a box or two or twelve like I do in my closet. A box full of old photo albums, or boxes of print photos. All memories. All un-digitized. Or the better ones hanging on a wall, stuck inside glass. I’ve […]
Creative Commons Certification, Syndicated
Join Our Slack Channel
We have a new community area for people interested in talking about the certification project. Creative Commons recently announced the opening of their new real time conversation place on Slack. It’s quite active and a bit easier to use then the existing IRC channel (though if you love IRC, the two spaces are now connected). […]
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Sticking a Fork in Facebook (2nd Time)
For the second time (first was in 2014) I have deleted my Facebook account. It ought to be the last, but as they say about saying “never”. My reactivation in 2015 was a need to have an account for a course project, then I had a few web sites for clients where I needed to […]
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My Recondite Project: Visualizing @Katexic Words
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 […]