The Headless ds106 experiment we set up August-December 2013 had many successful points. Most was in the new influx of active participants, but the ending group project (not planned) was in terms of rich collaboration one of my peak ds106 experiences. But it was an experience that was still bound by time. It started and […]
cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo shared by Lukas Vermeer Few people can playful banter online as well as Dean Shareski, and I enjoy regular doses of Dean tweaking. Good gravy, he lives in a town named “Moose Jaw” that alone is material enough (and I have visited him there). He is […]
cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Ben Brown I’ve railed for many a year about the fetid scourge of blogs, rampant bombardment of irrelevant, unwanted garbage comments laden with nefarious links, all seeking to increase google rank. Can this be turning? Should I believe in the tooth fairy who says Google […]
I spent 3 weeks in June 2012 in Vancouver (never a bad destination) in large part to learn from the great tech gurus at UBC. I was reminded of something I did during that experience that somehow never got blogged. It started with a fantastic, impromptu twitter exchange started today by Mike Caulfield TWEET DELETED! […]
cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by Vanessa Pike-Russell Two years ago today the ds106 Daily Create was launched with its first challenge, TDC1, “Create a Photograph that features a repeating pattern”. In honor of that, this is one of the rare times we repeat the same prompt, for TDC731: We’ve […]
Some people think this is the model how information on the internet works This is how we get things like walled LMS’s and rigid online HR applications that enforce ambiguous deadlines of “due at midnight” (oops that is my own beef, quick question is midnight at the end if the day or the beginning?). Everything […]
cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine Today’s ds106 Daily Create comes from Wikipedia’s page on surrealistic techniques: “Create a Self Portrait Cubomania Style — Cubomania is a surrealist method of making collages in which a picture or image is cut into squares and the squares are then reassembled without […]
Oops, I managed to write this and did not publish. And I say I never save drafts when blogging. Never say Mever! It’s been a while since I added anything new to my True Stories of Openness site. The stuff happens all the time (and not just to me), but lacking some event where I […]
In the house of CogDogBlog, most blog posts are written in the moment; no draft and reviews, just… splat. But this one has been bouncing around; it seems petty, whiny, un-necessary. Yet it keeps grinding away in my gut. Let’s see what happens. Countless are the times I watched the epic Cecille B. DeMille production […]
cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine It was 1993. One year into my first real job, the first time with real medical benefits. I needed a new prescription for eyeglasses, so I found myself at an optometrist. After he did the usual dial thing with the lens machine (“Which […]
