Hah! I bet I fooled you into thinking this was another rant against evil PowerPoint, eh? Nope, I actually just used it. Here is another series of loosely connected events I try to frame as a “story”. I had seen, perhaps tweeted. that Slideshare (‘the YouTube of PowerPoints) was running a World’s Best Presentation contest. […]
The rush of new technologies is not quite so different from this image, appropriately titled Armageddon. Among my cloud or network, are colleagues wiping out and restarting their social networks, jumping away from twitter to avoid mcirothinking or just hating twitter, or just pulling in the reigns from every possible social network tossed at them. […]
In my continued exploration of new technologies, I am looking at a new compact, portable, cheap, information device that may offer a lot of potential for not only education, but society in general. Use of it requires almost no electricity! It offers in depth amounts of information in a refreshingly simple user interface that is […]
Dancer by cogdogblog
posted 20 Jul ’08, 11.34pm MDT PST on flickr
Its CogDog and friends night gathering at Almustafa, a fab Lebanese restaurant in Sydney
Leaving Sydney in style…
Actually the last night in Sydney was two nights ago… or tomorrow…. or I am #*&ing tired of trying to get time zones sorted out. It was more than a 24 hour travel journey from hotel in Sydney to LA to Phoenix and capped with a drive home to Strawberry.
But what a great time it was connecting with past and new colleagues and getting to see just a wee bit more of the grand Australian country (and cities). Twice as long in Australia would have felt like it was not nearly enough.
Us Americans Appreciate the Traffic Help by cogdogblog posted 18 Jul ’08, 1.18am MDT PST on flickr Look Right! There is a car! Even after 2 weeks in Australia, I remain confused at traffic crossings- yesterday I cam oh so close to stepping in front of a fast moving bus. The horn blew and there […]
If you are in Sydney on Saturday and game to play dodge the pilgrammage crowd game, then join me and my NMC colleagues for a walk somewhere on a beach or around the harbor… er “harbour”. That’s th eplace with the funky curve building. I think they do art stuff there or maybe it is […]
Since I am just started playing with taking gigapan images, I was eager to experiment with the device on the trip here in Australia. I dont have fancy case for the thing- I am carting it around in the foam padded cardboard box it got sent to me. I am carrying it in my old […]
State of the Web 2008 by cogdogblog posted 9 Jul ’08, 11.32pm MDT PST on flickr What a great presentation of web trends, with extra snark! 0at.org/summer-2008.html "This was created on a cloudy afternoon in Seattle by Matthew Inman of 0at.org" linktribution to the Shifted Librarian fun fun fun
Meeting Leigh by cogdogblog posted 9 Jul ’08, 1.33pm MDT PST on flickr At the welcome dinner for Horizon.au, I finnaly got to meet in person, Leigh Blackall… now I am more eager to find my way back to New Zealand.
dirty wet rag by norwichforlife posted 11 Apr ’07, 8.26pm MDT PST on flickr norwich state Dispatch for Melbourne Australia, Monday July 7- Just arriving here in Australia has been both exciting and exhausting. I’ve done the long leg flights several times now (LA to Sydney and the marathon, LA to Melbourne) and am glad […]
