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PhotoSynth Strike Two

PhotoSynth Strike Two by cogdogblog posted 14 Oct ’08, 11.32pm MDT PST on flickr After my first miserable attempt to create a PhotoSynth in my living room, I sat down and read the RTFM, took 300 photos, but only got to 70% synthy. Needed more angles and connectors. This one took 2.5 hours. See Strawberry […]

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CCK08: Complexity is Complex, Ain’t It?

With travel, work-load, and self-imposed laziness, I maintain my firm position on the very far edges of participation in the Connectivism & Connective Knowledge. But as I intuit from the Stephen and George show, that really does not matter, and we need to get over that. photo credit: Pulpolux !!! Week 6 is Complexity, Chaos […]

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Show Me the Stories

Show me the money by Kees (km-fotografie.nl) posted 20 Mar ’08, 10.37am MDT PST on flickr This exhibition shows the full contract from – if I remember it wel – a Swiss Bank for lending out money to the museum. Behind every page is a light source. In the middle (where my friend is standing) […]

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Oh To Be WordCamp(ed) in DC

Just got word via the tweetvine from Dave Lester that the first ever WordCamp Ed (WordCamp Education) is happening in Washington, DC, on November 22 at George Mason University. WordCamp Ed is a WordCamp focused entirely on educational uses WordPress “” in schools and universities. The inaugural WordCamp Ed will be held at George Mason […]

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Dear John Letter from Eyespot

photo credit: jespis (a.k.a. Friends Friends Friend) Like Leigh and many others (apparently “a hundred thousand” people), I got a Dear John letter from Eyespot announcing their departure from the video editing/publishing service. It’s not all that surprising; what is surprising that there are not more Web 2.0 dead sites, at least ones that will […]

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3 Weeks, 3 Countries, 814 Photos

Asia Express by cogdogblog posted 8 Oct ’08, 2.31am MDT PST on flickr This is what the three previous weeks seemed like with my jaunt to Shangai, Hong Kong, and Japan. One tired dog. That worked out to be approximately photos per day. I’ve plopped them into a single flickr slideshow. Well, depending how how […]

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Barfing Panda Secrets

I did not discover the barfing flickr panda just followe dlinks in my gReader from sites like Mashable. The panda provides a different way to Explore flickr, the 500 most “interesting” photos as identified by the magical algorithm. The Panda just seems to be a new way to vew them; just sit and watch as […]