Randomly surfing flickr for photos for a new video project. Sometimes, when I find a photo (usually via a compfight search) i like that’s part of a set, I look at the whole set. On one today, I found it was generated automatically by something called Flickr Set Manager: Flickr Set Manager allows you to […]
cc licensed flickr photo shared by K_iwi “I had my own blog for a while, but I decided to go back to just pointless, incessant, tweeting.” (since I cannot use a copyrighted cartoon!)
cc licensed flickr photo shared by Melissa Maples Probably sending messages to @Geritol or @Depends… maybe arranging a bingo meetup… “@Methuselah I’m spending my grandkids inheritance on iTunes movies. Know where I can score some good v?” Yeah, that’s you and me and everyone else on twitter. See also how old people use Facebook. Now […]
cc licensed flickr photo shared by .m for matthijs with apologies to Don McLean… Not so long, long ago… I can still remember How those tweets used to make me smile. And I knew if I had my chance That I could make those people retweet And, maybe, they’d be happy for a while. But […]
cc licensed flickr photo shared by tourist_on_earth I’ve written previously (not that I remembered, I had to use my own blog search) on the challenge of tag juggling when one’s tagging habits have sprawled so much one wonders how many can they keep in the air. And its been something we’ve been discussing for the […]
cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog You can tweet but you cannot hide. If you mention "Clippy" in a tweet, that *#&$ing paper clip will hear you and reply, in that "I’m trying to be helpful but am annoying as biting ants in your shorts" way. Try it. Tweet something snarky about Clippy. Insult […]
I hope you enjoy this teaser for my presentation next week at the Open Education Conference: I could not help selecting the D’Arcy Norman Bigger Than Life glare for the freeze frame! These quotes from colleagues near and far were taken from the 34 longer interviews I collected for Amazing Stories of Openness, and the […]
cc licensed flickr photo shared by jamelah Mmm, sliced bread! So far maybe 140 people have installed my Flickr Creative Commons Attribution Helper– a GreaseMonkey script for Firefox. I use the sucker almost every day. It takes what used to be about a 5 click, 4 copy/paste operation to give me, in one motion, the […]
After years of publishing snippets of HTML and PHP code in this blog, I’ve yet to find an elegant way to represent the code when published- there’s a bit of a trick, since you don’t want the HTML or PHP to do what it normally does. For a few years I have used the Preserve […]
One of my web hobbies is peeking at the source code of web pages– and I love it when you find something there that does not make the front page, and HTML Easter Egg if you will. I actually do this if I am trying to see how something was coded for a page or […]
