According to my Kindle Reader I am only 18% into Alex Wright’s Cataloging The World: Paul Otlet and the Birth of the Information Age. But I am all in. As a precedent to Vannevar Bush, Belgian information organizer Otlet is credited with envisioning many of the technologies and ideas behind this internet thing I am […]
Promoting and building tools for attribution of media may be one of the longest hobby horses running around this blog. I never got linktribution nor thanktribution to catch on. To me much of the problem with the way media reuse, copyright is taught is based on fear-if you use a copyrighted image, you will get […]
That’s not a photo of a hot dog eating dude; it’s the flickr iPhone app (and it’s friends) stuffing itself for no reason on your file storage space. Of course, it’s not really file storage space, since in iOS you are forever told by your Apple Nanny that there is no file system. The file […]
Just try to say that any number of times fast. I have coined what Jon Udell described as a single grain of sand on the internet beach. Yes, anyone can invent make up a word. But the idea (I think) Jon was trying to illustrate in that 2012 class visit to Virginia Tech, is the […]
I love this photo. I walked past it on the way to the final keynote of the CALI conference. I saw an interesting juxtaposition (one of the Big Secret storytelling techniques I spoke of in my own keynote) in the goldfish crackers on the sidewalk. My photo intuition said “take the photo”, but I made […]
“BS? How Can you say that? You’ve been promoting digital storytelling for 10 years!” Today’s keynote was a play on perception, I never explicitly defined what BS stood for, did I? Sometime in April, after the return from 5 months in British Columbia, I was catching up with Barbara Ganley vis Skype and said something […]
Human inertia: An person at rest will remain at rest unless acted on by an unbalanced force. An person in motion continues in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force. Of course, you usually never see those unbalanced forces in advance. Or, you yourself is […]
It started as just some tweets, making fun of buzz words with Laura Gibbs and Bill Fitzgerald @cogdog @funnymonkey I'm nervous around words that don't rhyme with other words. like monetize. 🙂 — Laura Gibbs (@OnlineCrsLady) June 9, 2015 https://twitter.com/funnymonkey/status/608316228520837122 This the day before I left for DML 2015, and an idea to do something […]
At the 2015 DML Conference I got, for the second time (first was in April at et4online), to join in a Conference Buddy Google Hangout session with Maha Bali. I almost hesitate to have to say who Maha is, for while being on the opposite side of the globe in Egypt, she is so part […]
As I said in the opening, the idea for this session proposed for the DML Conference was totally my idea, so if it flopped, I am happy to take the blame and if it went well, I give credit to the co-presenters. Fortunately it was the latter, Laura Gibbs, Ben Werdmüller, Erin Richey, Jonathan Worth, […]
