I could barely ignore an appearance of a new site called Inside a Dog, a new site from Victoria, Australia aimed at promoting youth reading and interesting in writing and those lovely old fashioned portable content devices called “books”. But what a clever web theme (yes, I am biased)- that a program all the way […]
I am in the one month scramble the jets mode to get ready for my Australian tour where I hope to avoid any street protesters nor tangle up anyone’s traffic with my motorcade. I had put some thought around how to do a Web 2.0 workshop that is not the typical ed-tech geek approach of […]
Is anywhere in the world is it August 31? I have come up for air a day later.. Let’s see if I can come up with my five unusual, unheralded blogs. First is this tiny one originating from Monkton… just kidding. The Generator Blog collects all those sites that allow you to generate an image […]
Gender Bending in the Bacn posted 1 Sep ’07, 10.50am MDT PST on flickr Just got some fresh bacn in my inbox- seems like Quechup has some issues with gender
Like Duvall’s Kilgore, who said “there’s nothing like napalm in the morning”, for a web geek, there’s nothing like a bit of curious fiddling with code to make something work. Today’s feat was finagling a MediaWiki extension to display a Google Calendar in our sites. I’ve been using GCal for a year to manage our […]
I am now owner of a plot of land in Second Life, 4096 sq meters on a new sim called “Sciences”, one of the NMC Educational Communities (land that is parceled and rented to educational organizations). As of tonight I have spent extensive amount of time walking the green carpet and tossing out objects. Actually […]
Pshaw to bloggers who cut off or dont harvest their comments! I got rich today! Thanks to Matt M who commented on my “Anyone Remember Podcasting” post, he pointed my to EveryZing– as search services that does keyword searches among audio and video content — and returns results that are linked directly to the segment […]
You know about email spam. You cannot avoid it, you cannot Can it, you cannot toss it though it is passed the expiration date, and you cannot even make a decent sandwich with it. But you know what this is, blog readers? That is my breakfast, yum, it is “Bacn”! Yes, the new hot meme […]
Uncanny Dog Valley posted 23 Aug ’07, 6.17pm MDT PST on flickr The book, Lives of Monster Dogs was recommend to me last week by someone (sorry, forgot who) at the NMC Symposium on Creativity in Second Life. And 2008 is nigh for the arrival of the Dogs: "A postmodern Mary Shelley, taking the parable […]
91%How Addicted to Blogging Are You? Mingle2 – mingle Thanks to Rob (linktribution), I have exact data on the problem. My blogging here has been sporadic due to blogging directed elsewhere… After our week long conference held in Second Life (I hear you snickering out there)… I was blogged out having tried to blog the […]
