What has happened to good writing? Are we so reduced to status updating that the skills of forming coherent, interesting sentences, believable characters, and interesting plots has gone by the wayside? I am not talking about essays, articles, or even blogging- I am talking about when email spam was somewhat credible. I cannot accept that […]
Remember this little busy guy? You’ve seen much of him since the late 1990s? I thought I spotted him today in Canada: cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog But he just would not move. No more digging. No matter how many times I clicked. It just took a little convincing (and […]
I listen, and read, and listen, and try to make sense of what they are talking ’bout. But those cows just go on and on and on about their MOOcing and making cheese. On and on they go. And go. “…placental, emergent, alienating, enveloping, sometimes thriving, sometimes dead, sometimes reborn…” Whatever. Yawn. Anyone want to […]
cc licensed ( BY ND ) flickr photo shared by ind{yeah} A rather annoying grain of sand in the ds106 machine of syndication is the loss of web sites when students give up their domains, or just obliterate their blogs after class. It’s a common theme of the distributed web, the stench of link rot […]
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by foxypar4 On December 14, 2012, Clara-Belle, Daisy, Elsie, Moonbeam, Bessie, and a small group of bovine thought leaders will gather in Des Moines to discuss the future of CHEESEs in online dairy production. The approach of this one-day intensive summit brings Elsie and Moonbeam back to […]
cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by The Rocketeer This may be a niche case but I am just making note for myself. If you ever feel the urge to change the Permalinks setting on your WordPress site, keep in mind you will break any old external links that point to […]
Some unconfirmed rumors that a new device is coming out soon from Apple, the ultimate ds106 device, the 106pod- its evolution: Okay, this is actually a remix created for the ds106 Remix Generated assignment, Evolution [remixed] DS106-ersizer: This combines an original ds106 assignment: Evolution created by Isaac Thesatus Alot can happen from birth to death. […]
cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared by Stéfan I’ve been doing some tinkering over at the ds106 Daily Create site, whose very presence and essence still shines from the approach Tim Owens did when he assembled it in early 2012. The first major new thing is the addition, under a new […]
cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by recompose Woah. (tap tap tap) [clears throat] Is this thing on? Yes, the red light is on. Welcome back. We took a nap here at cogdogblog for a few hours last night but still had stuff to write about. And we usually tell our […]
Arggh, since my hippie hosted main blog is down for the count tonight, I shall hang my blog post here. In prepping the work for next week’s ds106 section on Remix, I needed/wanted to do one of the assignments we just added- Recycle the Media in which we are charged with making a mashup from the […]
