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The New Polaroid is TypePad

Can you remember the anticipation of counting to 60 before peeling back those Polaroid photos, juts hoping Aunt Maybelle was smiling or little Jimmy did not have his finger up his nose? The smell of the chemicals as it revealed what more often than not was not realistic colors? Is that how we do photos […]

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Internet Chemistry

Time to dust off your memory cells for how the Period Table of the Elements is organized — but now it is mashedup, recast, and graphicly spun into a new version where websites replace the elements. Get ready to play with the Periodic Table of the Internet: It’s really fun, and interactive, and an interesting […]

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Unexpected Time Diversion

My $0.00 Under the Desk Organizer posted 25 Jul ’07, 3.37pm MDT PST on flickr Always in the spirit of being (acting?) organized, I decided to move some things off the top fo my desktop to underneath like the DSL modem (which needs rare attention) and my USB / Firewire external drives. As much as […]

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Slideshare, now Slidecasts, with Sound!

I’ve been fond of Slideshare for months, and have been meeting to blog about how they’ve quielty rolled in social networking features, but their newly announced feature today of providing the ability to upload and synchronize sound to slides is the proclaimed Killer App Kick All the Others in the Butt. What they have done […]

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50 Web 2.0 Ways To Tell a Story

I am sidestepping some of my own blog advice by blogging something that’s not fully ready for prime time. Among my frantic evening time prep work for my October Australia tour, I am starting to weave together workshop / presentation materials I’ll likely leak here first to get some feedback. What seemed like an off […]

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I Am, Like So Insignificant

I Am, Like So Insignificant posted 23 Jul ’07, 8.52pm MDT PST on flickr I do not register on Google Trends: www.google.com/trends?q=cogdogblog Sigh. Poking around the Google Labs, I played a bit the other night with the search trend analysis tools they have there-might come in handy in some future presentation. With Google Trends, you […]

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Giddyup! Ride the Ole Information Superhighway

Our local paper carries a Monday morning local column on computers, most of the time covering those critical questions on spyware and video drivers for Vista. But the writer sometimes looks at the Internet (with a Capital I), and today I was curious to read the take on social networks. You had my riding down […]

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Blogalytics

I had completely forgotten that I’ve had the bits installed on this blog to capture data in Google Analytics, which for the paranoid means your browsing habits are feeding the big G machine (not the purpose of today’s meanderings). In fact, I doubt I had looked at the reports at all, but they do contain […]