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Connectivism Shop?
The Future is Here? by cogdogblog posted 24 Sep ’08, 7.11pm MDT PST on flickr Spotted on the streets of Hong Kong, I am pretty sure in peeking in the window I saw lots of “Connectivism in a Box” 😉 Go George Go!
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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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Flickr Photo in Museum
That’s My Photo!! by cogdogblog posted 8 Oct ’08, 2.33am MDT PST on flickr A new round of self back-patting! One of my flickr photos is part of a museum exhibit… I got a flickr email request a few weeks back from a designer who asked to use one of my photos in part of […]
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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 […]
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I Know That Photo!
Familar Photo in Flickr Search Results by cogdogblog posted 7 Oct ’08, 4.39pm MDT PST on flickr How weird it is to be in search of a flickr image for a post, and seeing your own photo show up? I have been using compfight for my cc image search, and a recent search on "microphone" […]
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Paging @KathySierra…
cc licensed flickr photo by laffy4k Dear @KathySierra, I realize that you are, like, a big internet A-list star with lots to do and horses to tend, but am a bit saddened my twitter direct message to you has not generated a reply. We are really, really, really interested in enticing you to keynote at […]
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Big Internet
A bit late, but right before boarding my plane form Osaka, I uploaded as an annotated flickr set the slides I used for my “10 Minute TED style” talk at Learning 2.008 The premise is we all know the Internet is “big” but forget how dwarfing a scale it is to an individual, drawing the […]
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Community Weed Picking
Community Weed Picking by cogdogblog posted 5 Oct ’08, 1.11am MDT PST on flickr As I was waiting for the airport shuttle van, my friend and host here in Japan, Bert, pointed out one more item of Japanese culture- posted in the notice board of his apartment is a flyer letting him know when he […]