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May Story a Day #27: ds106 Mystery
As someone dear to us has yelled before, “I WANT TO KNOW! I WANT TO KNOW!!!!!” The mystery is un-shrouded, whether it is Peter Rowan or Rowan Peter. Or is it that simple? I hear crickets from down under.
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dotSubbing
It’s beena while since I played with dotSUB, the crowdsource site for translating video captions into other languages. I decided to givre it a play with the video I made last month for 50+ Web 2.0 Ways to tell a story. I first uploaded the video to dotSub. I thne noticed that it had an […]
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From the CogDogLab: Pechaflickr
Here is a new toy to play with- announcing Pechaflickr, the pecha kucha + battle decks + flickr mashup. Type in a tag, click “play”, and you will be served up 20 random flickr photos, displayed each for 20 seconds. The idea is to have people practice the art of improv to a set of […]
Memories
May Story a Day #25: Dad Was a Distance Learner
Looking at the old drafting table got me thinking of my Dad again. I found this table among the piles of stuff in our family home basement in Baltimore. Since leaving for college, I had asked Dad for it, and have taken it everywhere I have gone. I drove it across the US in my […]
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Brain Change BS (Bad Science)
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by spablab A colleague recently shared a link to this Reuters story Is surfing the Internet altering your brain?. My degrees in Geology hardly qualify me to refute brain scientists, but my common sense really wrankles at suggestions such as: “We’re seeing an evolutionary change. The people […]
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50 * 3 / 48
The cryptic math is meant to communicate that over the last 2 days (48 hours), I have presented 3 times online 50+ Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story (if you do the math you get a bad pi). Last night was a presentation for Dean Shareski‘s ECMP 355 Course (no web site?), which I […]
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May Story a Day #24 Grassy GIFs
Today’s supposed digital story is an experiment in creating animated GIFs, which is totally legal in counting as a story! I did this by using the consecutive shooting mode on my Canon T1i, then importing into PhotoShop (“import as Stack” under scripts in File menu), and finally using the animation palette to do final tweaks. […]
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May Story a Day #22: Get Your Kicks
I was behind the wheel all day (and then some) last night to go from Strawberry AZ to northern CA, and cruised I-40, paralleling the ghost highway of Route 66. Somewhere near the Oatman turnoff (a worthy side trip if you every are in the area and want to see a funky place), I stopped […]
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Flickr Photo, A Log from Arizona, and a Pen
Since I have asked others to share an Amazing Story of Openness, it is only fitting that I do one myself. This is a new one that happened this year: The story really played out on flickr, where I have crossed comments many times with Di (or "windsordi"), here she comments on my pile of […]
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When WordPress Has Memory Woes
cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by .m for matthijs I’m hoping to carve out some time soon to get back to the garage and return to tinkering with WordPress. To that end, I spent some time categorizing new and old posts, so I have a collection now of things blogged […]