cc licensed flickr photo Day 200/365 “Yawn” by Wellstone This may be in the “pot calling kettle black” category> tag, but I have this long standing growl in my belly about Screencasts. The technology is great, lots of tools, free ones, but when we talk about them it seems to be always about the tools. […]
I have yet to even explore all the features that clicky offers for web stats, but am still on a love plain after accidently discovering it.
I am running the free version here on CogDogBlog, and just found that there are widgets you can use, so I have the daily stats now embedded on my Blogs n’ Bits page or what smart people call “colophon”. It’s done via a Google Module, which means I have one on my own Google ig page.
This also widened my eyes to information I see that any module you can embed on a Google home page can be embedded in other web pages. Hmmm.
In addition, I have been using it on the NMC web site, and today paid for a year’s worth of service, meaning I can use it our multiple domains, use the “Spy” real time reporting. I too made a page on the NMC site with not only the web stats, but am embedded Google map showing where today’s visitors clicked from:
I was just IMing with Nick Noakes who asked if I had tried pictobrowser, a flickr web widget thingie. Like other tools that allow you to embed flickr content, you just need to provide your flickr handle and select a set or tag to display your photos, embedded in another site.
Are tag clouds, as Read/Write Web suggests, entombed? dead? On my fleet of NMC WordPress site I am shifting to using tags more on posts as an organizer, and tossing some clouds on the pages (see lower right sidebar of Pachyderm Services). Its a bit easier on these sites that have a relatively low number […]
Thanks EduBlogs! Thanks James! by cogdogblog posted 12 Aug ’08, 10.46pm MDT PST on flickr Thanks to a tweet from @jdwilliams I learned that the edublogs dashboard (like all 190,000 of them) have a nice little pitch for people to help in my quest for interesting uses of WordPress in education for a presentation at […]
“Library” and “Gaming” were words that you likely saw rarely paired years ago. I was a library junkie as a kid, loved wandering stacks, walking out with piles of books, but it’s hard to shake the imprint that it was a place were the main noises you heard were were “Shhhhh” not “boing!” It’s hardly […]
mod of flickr creative commons image: Diner Sign by D.F. Shapinsky (pingnews) That’s the camp title I came up for my short invited presentation this Saturday at WordCamp San Francisco. My blurb is: Among the 100+ million/gazillion blogs estimated that are “out there” quite a few belong to educators using several flavors of WordPress. Edublogs.org […]
Dem Fancee iPhoners ar Fer Citee Folks? by cogdogblog posted 11 Aug ’08, 9.13am MDT PST on flickr I guess usn folkz that lives out here in da sticks cant get no iphones, heck we cant even get close to an Ai-Tee-N-Tee store. How the heckus kan I find dem fancy fones if I izz […]
No Respect for Stupid Spammers by cogdogblog posted 11 Aug ’08, 8.41am MDT PST on flickr Important URLs (mine) and unimportant ones (spammers) deliberately blurred. All other identification left readable intentionally Well, I doubt I would ever use the word "respect" in proximity of "spammer", but I am at least a tiny bit less turned […]
Cloud computing is the looming buzz word. All these magical “apps in the cloud” sound exciting… until the cloud fizzles on you.
In June, we switched our email service over to the Google Enterprise version for Education, and until this morning at 11:04am PDT I was a happy camper. My IMAP email connection was failing to connect from the desktop. When I went to the web version I got a 502 server error. I then IM-ed the office in Austin to see if they were able to access email. Everyone there is okay. I tried another computer. I rebooted. I thought of prayer, but stopped short.
Then I called the customer support number (11:30am) and spoke to someone who confirmed there were some intermittent outages, and I was assured their engineers were working on it. No problem, not having email for a short while was nice. Just for grins and a multipronged approach, I submitted a report via their web form (using my cogdogblog gmail address as a return), and got this response at 11:41am:
I understand that several users at your domain at experiencing 502 errors.
Typically, these errors are temporary, however, it appears for a small subset of our users this issue has persisted for longer. We’ve escalated this to our engineers with the highest priority and they are working diligently to resolve this problem.
That me now in the small subset club. But look! Those clever Google genius engineers have me as thei highest priority! They are working diligently!
