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 […]
Bryan Alexander recently shared his information wrangling routine, and it gives some insight to just how coherently he scans, processes, and re-shares information. But how do you categorize the serendipitous sniffing that defies such orderly processes? I find the most interesting stuff in the most haphazard ways. Like today. Among the twitter flow, I saw […]
cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine This is no list of career highlights for 2013, no roundup of top viewed blog posts, no prizes are being given, just another day the wind blows and rips a page of the calendar that falls on the floor. If I were to […]
cc licensed ( BY NC SA ) flickr photo shared by amanda tipton Understanding some of the database structure of wordpress can help you out of some jams. Ot maybe make some new ones. I had a recent situation that may never happen for someone else, but knowing something about the way WordPress stories user […]
cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine My dimly remembered history of learning world history paints the age of discovery as some sort of pure pursuit of mapping the world, with captains mumbling something akin to the opening to Star Trek. Columbus knew the world was not flat! (so did […]
