How much surprise comes out of a thin little book! I’ve had this hardback copy of Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale on my shelf for a number of years. To be honest, it was from a batch of old books I purchased mainly for having a variety of old books to fill a book case. Published […]
NEWS FLASH! My wayback is back! Pretend you have found memories as a kid gawking at the dinosaur fossils on exhibit in the great hall of the Field Museum in Chicago. Your family vacation trip is planned to Chicago, and you wish to have your kids share the same experience. You know that Gorgeous George […]
Look at those tired, weeklong workshop worn down expressions on University of Guadalajara faculty in that photo above. This was the energy we saw a lot of earlier this month, for the entire time for the second year of the UDG Agora project, a collaboration between the Justice Institute of British Columbia and the Universidad […]
This is a true story of a photo. Maybe not amazing, but it gave me pause, even a stop, to smile. My own tiny little bit of internet self serendipity. Yesterday I sat down at one of these WordPress screens to compose a post for the Creative Commons Certification site I’m working on. Like my […]
Yes, you. That’s who I am talking too. I put out this idea a few weeks ago asking people to do an imagination exercise to tell us first what place a Creative Commons Certification might have for them, and how they might envision such a thing working. To me, it’s an interesting approach in this […]
NEWS FLASH! My wayback is back! Let me first say that the Internet Archive is one of the most important, impressive crowning achievements we have for preserving and understanding what is truly a transient information space. And I rely regularly on the WayBack Machine to research, discover, and fall into interesting rabbit holes. And let […]
Score another one for having a personal archive. Or having a shred of a memory. I cannot say I follow the European Football Championships but did pick up a sense of the surprise victory by Iceland over England (skip all Brexit puns here). But something triggered when I saw this tweet that Pat Lockley re-tweeted […]
I never would have guessed I’d be in the internet rabbit hole triggered by an article in my ASU Alumni magazine. But in there I found “ASU releases photos of early Phoenix taken by McCulloch Brothers” describing a collection of 4500 photographs from 1884-1947 by two brothers who emigrated here from Scotland and ran a […]
How many computer tools you used today are 14 years old? I have one. This is one of those things that happen out of conversation; I was DMing Maha Bali of all things about the weather. I know that saying it was 108º here Sunday is not useful to her as Fahrenheit (well she likely […]
My web warehouse has been emptied. In my first job in ed-tech, a 14 year stint as an instructional technologist at the Maricopa Community Colleges, I spawned a vast, messy array of web sites from 1993 until I left in 2006, hosted at http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu – that URL is retired, and should redirect to the center’s […]
