Stranger than real life, or maybe not. The day after my third Weblog workshop here in New Zealand, broke a stranger than life story. The just announced winner of the 2004 Best Personal Blog award at the Netguide Web Awards was the bizgirl blog, advertised with an aluring photo of the “librarian of international mystery”. […]
flickr foto Pick a Sideavailable on my flickr There is humor on the New Zealand tricks on the highway… often you see pithy sacrastic remarks like “Keep Smoking- That’s Why You Have Two Lungs”, or this example suggesting there are two sides to be passed upon… which one would Robert Frost take? Okay, this is […]
flickr foto Logging on to Bloggingavailable on my flickr The day of my blogging workshop at Manukau Institute of Technology in Auckland, there was put out in the hallway a marketing magazine that heralded blogging as a marketing tool. Playing all the stereotypes of a MALE blogger YELLING into a magaphone. Edgy stuff, eh? I […]
flickr foto What do YOU want?available on my flickr Are you talking to me? ARE you talking to ME? Are YOU talking to…. can you believe that CogDogBlog will feature a photo of a cat? What is going on here in New Zealand? It is almost heretical to feature a cat photo here in CogDogBlog! […]
I might have been a bit premature to share the wiki links for my New Zealand workshops. Apparently the server here got rather overwhelmed with traffic, because it was pretty much unusuable during my workshops down south at Manukau Institute of Technology. At 10:00 am I was pretty much up the wiki without a paddle… […]
flickr foto Weet-Bixavailable on my flickr The number one cereal for New Zealand is a giant Shredded Wheat. And you gotta love a food product from the folks at “Sanitorium”! More on New Zealand brands. I am talking all kinds of photos of signs, packaging, labels etc. Look at the size of that “bix”! You […]
Hmmm, The November 2004 issue of Wired has the goods on the notion of “Rip-Mix-Feed” line of thought. The magazine includes an audio CD with music specifically with Creative Commons licenses for ripping and mixing, and even a few are further licensed for sampling and commercial use. I’ve yet to listen to it (maybe on […]
I’m about halfway through my three week visit to Auckland New Zealand for an ambitious series of workshops at several schools here, and am bouncing between my regular CogDogBlog and its flipped over variant here CogDog(kiwi)Blog as well as two (or more) flickr sites. I may be losing track of where I leave my dribbles […]
flickr foto Not So Yummyavailable on my flickr I cannot get past the smell when the Marmite lid opens- how do the kiwis stand it? As Richard calls, it “axel grease” (but then again, he likes it) I have yet to really develop my taste for this stuff. I doubt I ever will. This is […]
Pity the poor Teaching Wiki. Buried in s-p-a-m. Beyond the vast WIkiPedia with legions of rabid followers, most little wikis are doomed. Doomed. Doooooomed. Yours may be next.
