It’s time to croon again. I am slated as a keynote for the 2015 K12 Online Conference in the “Connection Stories” track. So it was an easy yes to do a new round of True Stories of Open Sharing, with an ask for ones related to connection. Here is my ask, filmed the day before […]
Today marks the calendar lap of my grandmother’s passing in 2003. “Granny” was a one of a kind person, to me as a kid she was the emblem of someone full of life, a sense of sophistication she was always go go go. Even if my perceptions were not true to life, I still adored […]
The day I took this photo I spent most of it working on a project, and by late afternoon I realized I had not taken any photos yet. To maintain a daily photo habit, you have to sometimes find opportunity quickly. This is one of the manzanita shrubs (common in Arizona, small cousins of the […]
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 […]
