You know much little grades really mean to what we know/can do, but long-time colleague Liz tweeted me my TwitterGrade and then followed up with data of overwhelming stomping of Guy Kawaski: So we can put a lot of faith into a mystery metric, but what the heck? I’ll roll with it. Take that @guykawasaki […]
Perhaps it is a fine line, but as a very sparsely populated, expansive– and moving into winter– dark place, Iceland can offer you plenty of time, space for reflective alone time… or toss you into an abyss of isolation. My measure seems to fluctuate with the ins and outs of my internet connection. This month […]
iPhone iFlute! by cogdogblog posted 16 Nov ’08, 4.22am MST PST on flickr Yet another day passes and its another utterly amazing iPhone app. Ocarina is a musical instrument, and you play by holding it horizontal and blowing into the microphone (indicated by yellow arrow) You then place your finders on the dots, and the […]
Here is Proof! I Created YouTube by cogdogblog posted 14 Nov ’08, 8.13am MST PST on flickr The heck with the flimsy claim of Herbert Elwood Gilliland III who says he was the fourth You Tube inventor — I have videotape proof of me sketching out the concept in 1979 (it is the second part […]
Getting a PhDDD! by cogdogblog posted 14 Nov ’08, 8.35am MST PST on flickr And they say spam is a problem! I am so excited! I like the sounds of this program: No Exams/Books/Tests/Interview/classes 100% No Pre-School qualifÃcation requìred! And best of all, I "can even becomêe a doctor and receÃve All the benefìts That […]
modified from cc flickr photo by JTony I want a law named after me 😉 Call this CogDog’s Law of Web Tools: The “best” tool is the one I am currently using the most. This played out earlier this week during Howard Rheingold’s session for the CCK08 session. While he was talking about his new […]
It’s been a fruitful reading of those so-called dead blog scrolls this week– Scott Leslie has liad out a strong missive in Planning to Share versus Just Sharing and just across the bay from Scott (well farther this month), Brian Lamb is posing some tough questions like Am I missing the point on open educational […]
On updating my 50+ Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story site, I am trying to fill in more examples where I was lacking more than just my repeated Dominoe Story. In Looking for ones created with the comic tool gnomz (which are pretty sparse) I dug way back and found one D’Arcy did in […]
Thanks to a curious click form a Tony Hirst tweet, I briefly whizzed by xtranormal an interesting web app for creating/directing/producing/gaffering your own virtual movies:
Xtranormal’s mission is to bring movie-making to the people. Everyone watches movies and we believe everyone can make movies. Movie-making, short and long, online and on-screen, private and public, will be the most important communications process of the 21st century and its democratization is a massive business opportunity. Our revolutionary approach to movie-making builds on an almost universally held skill””typing. You type something; we turn it into a movie. On the web and on the desktop.
And all of this rang as 50+ Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story material. As I am preparing to do a remote online intro for Dean Shareski’s class this Monday, I am spiffing up the site and re-acquainting myself with old and new tools.
After an hour’s play, I am amazed as this little app, which almost belongs n a category of its own. Again, it’s tagline is “If You Can Type Text, You Can Create a Movie” which is not quite true. You also have to know how to click your mouse. So when you create a movie, you get to choose if it will be one or two characters, pick a set, music, and avatars for the characters. Now at first reaction, you are going to find it limiting, because there are fixed choices for everything.
But step back- this is another example where limited tools (being boxed in) should make you dig deeper into your creativity, of creating something inside the box, rather than whining about the box.
Vote for Skinna! by cogdogblog posted 11 Nov ’08, 6.03pm MST PST on flickr Calling all my friends and followers (all 7 of you)- I have another flickr photo that was picked up by Purina Pet Charts for a popularity contest. Just go to the Purina site, click the "Skinna on Alert" photo on the […]
