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ELILATE
I’m woefully, no utterly, no massively badly behind on any sense of conference blogging at EDUCAUSE ELI Conference, but am eager for some plan time tomorrow to support back posting from the plane
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Blow Up Your Photos With Piclens
No, the title is not a bad TSA joke (are there any good ones?), but a lovingly statement of joy for yet another cool photo tool. Piclens has been around a while but only for Safari on Max OS X, but now it works as an extension for Firefox on Mac or Windows. Piclens turns […]
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When Life Gets Your Down, Despair
It has been a loooooong time since I looked at the Demotivational Posters from Despair, which I can remember from way back when the web was young and we spun HTML by hand. For a lover of sarcasm, this is one of the highest art forms, taking potshots at those motivational posters the PHBes put […]
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Off to San Antonio
Plenty of Instructions at the Alamo posted 7 Nov ’06, 9.40am MST PST on flickr Do quiet non smoking men only have to remove their hats? Why do women get to keep their hats on? Can we take pictures? This sign from the Alamo hopefully is not hung at the ELI conference venue. Tomorrow (or […]
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Ignore the Numbers?
Ignore the Numbers? posted 24 Jan ’08, 2.26pm MST PST on flickr If Hasbro is strategic, they might do something smart to acknowledge almost 50,000 game players of Scrabulous. Or if they listen to lawyers and PHBs, they will piss of 50k people. I’m one. Cluetrain, anyone? Crikies, they can likely run the whole company […]
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Liar
Liar posted 24 Jan ’08, 12.49pm MST PST on flickr The web site istwitterdown.com is a big fat liar You cannot trust any web sites. Definitely not mine either. iscogdogdogblogfullofcrap.com? Yes
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Comment(MultiUser)Press
A while back I was excited to tinker with CommentPress, a WordPress template geared towards a format for online papers — see CommentPressing NMC Paper on Evolution of Communication. Developed by the Institute for the Future of the Book, what CP offers is the feature for site visitors to attach comments at the paragraph level– […]
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Dusty, Neglected Social Networking Web Sites
So many social networks, so little time… I do not know about you, humble blog reader, but I have truly lost track of all the social networking sites I have signed up for over the last few years. I am using the term “social networking” sites loosely, maybe they are social software, maybe they are […]
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Am I A Blogger Domain Squatter? Is that Bad?
A long, long, long time ago (maybe not in a galaxy far, far away, it is about 90 miles from where I sit), maybe 2003, 2004, while in my role at Maricopa, I was doing workshops and trying to promote the potential of blogging (how novel, eh?). I created an online set of resources I […]
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Photorealism Inside a Virtual World?
Photorealism Inside a Virtual World? posted 15 Jan ’08, 11.08pm MST PST on flickr Mix your worlds– this is from an event today we held in Second Life (114 people showed up in this place where "no one is ever around") — a demo of a Virtual Reality Room. This is a clever implementation of […]