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Fountaining Tweets
Wow, very cool, very wow …. found on the Clutter Museum, comes this twitter fountain. I am not tossing in any eduP*** here, but just playing – with tweets on “Strawberry” and flickr photos tagged “cogdog”
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G-G, Negative Content, and Blogging Rarely Is Ok
You dont have to blog (or twitter) every 10 minutes… as long as when you do its meaningful. Greg Ritter posts maybe once or twice a month, and there was a time when the light at Ten Reasons Why was dark for like a year, but he shares some fabulous gems. Earlier this month he […]
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The Stump Thunk The Punk Stunk
To paraphrase an old favorite tongue-twister: A punk sat on a stump. The punk thunk the stump thunk, but the stump thunk the punk stunk My blog hat is humbly dipped to the east to Jim Groom for feverishly launching the spreading EDUPUNK meme (must be in all caps, eh). That photo is scary enough. […]
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Horizon Report Preso a la Vuvox Collage
I’m just back from a 3 day visit to St Paul for the Midwest Library Technology Conference hosted at Macalester College.
This was the first time for this conference, and with attendance well over 250 and from the level of activity I observed, planner Ron Joslin and colleagues should be very pleased. I liked very much how they tried a variety of session formats other than 50 minute lectures (like in the Games in Libraries session we actually got to play some of the games; I might be hooked on Wii bowling after a few rounds).
I should add another noticeable feature of note at the conference was the overt effort to be green sensitive with the amount of paper generated- the program was a singl trifold, double side printed with agenda on one side and map on the other. They asked us to turn in name badges every day to re-use the paper and holders. There were no ugly conference bags stuffed with glossy ads. Its small but commendable.
My NMC colleague Rachel Smith and I were invited to do a keynote on the NMC Horizon Report; as heard this group was interested in exploring/examining emerging technologies. For our session, we took the risk and prepared a presentation in Web 2,0 beta software, the amazing Vuvox Collage (yes its still in beta and sorry no, I dont have beta invites to share.. I just asked them for an account). I was deeply inspired by the Balancing Act presentation shared a few weeks ago by Barbara Ganley, and rolled Collage into my 50 Ways tools with one about Dominoe.
So below is The 2008 Horizon Report: Key Emerging Technologies:
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Kokopelli Calling Brian Lamb
Follow Kokopelli to Starbucks! by cogdogblog posted 27 May ’08, 4.58pm MDT PST on flickr Mesmerized by the sounds of his flute, you order a triple latte venti… again. The World’s Largest Kokopelli pipes his way in Camp Verde, Arizona www.worldslargestthings.com/arizona/kokopelli.htm This one’s for you, my coffee monopoly hating friend. FYI, I marched over to […]
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You Are Mere Plankton for a Whale of a Twitter
You Are Mere Plankton for a Whale of a Twitter by cogdogblog posted 27 May ’08, 4.05pm MDT PST on flickr So twitter is still borked, but they have spent time changing the graphics that lets you know they are borked. And worse, my fellow plankton — it is now our fault: "Too many tweets!" […]
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Cosmic! Explore Flickr Photos via Tag Galaxy
It registers a Spock-like eyebrow raise when the folks at Mashable.com are wowed by a new tool, so check out Tag Galaxy. This is a visually engaging tool to explore flickr photos by tags. That alone does not say much, but what this site does is create a planetary like display for showing how tags […]
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Quick Quiz: What New Web Tool Can You Use and Get an ASUS?
A few weeks ago I came across a nifty new web embedded quiz tool on Steve Dembo’s site – his edublogger quiz was rather thorough, and is worth seeing how well you know your fellow bloggers. Steve made this quiz with MyStudiyo which who knows, may become the YouTube for multiple choice quizzes? It offers […]
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Ning “the” Thing
Nings are everywhere. I’m not necessarily writing here about the virtue (or not) of the build your own social network tool. I’m in a few Nings, and technically/design-wise they have come along way from some of the first ones I recall 3 or 4 years ago when they first came out. No, these is a […]
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Question Begging to Be Asked….
The psychic should know… by designwallah posted 14 Apr ’08, 10.41pm MDT PST on flickr Let’s see if we are on the same page with this fun image….