Blogged This Day

Scrolling back the blog in time, inspired by John Johnston to see all posts posted on today’s date in previous years. This is achieved via the WP Posted Today plugin (that’s one I made!).

There are 21 posts previously published on May 25th

  • 2020
    • In Which I Play The Part of a Sysadmin … with all the acting pistache of maybe… Steven Seagal? Sure I can futz around cpanel and run some command line stuff (on a really good day maybe vi) but it’s far from my wheelhouse. But I can stretch. Last fall Clint Lalonde came bearing some much needed contract work for BCCampus and his new […]
  • 2017
    • Are you looking at the opposite end of Creative Commons? Have you had any success explaining what Creative Commons is to people completely outside of our field or for that matter outside the range of people who work online? My attempts veer into vague generalities about alternatives to copyright that allow creators to share— (insert eye glaze over). This is not necessarily problematic but more […]
    • One Fewer Good Lambs in this World This is sad news to share. Last night my good friend Brian Lamb’s dad passed away following un-expected complications from a surgery. I asked he and his family if this news was okay to share, as they are in the midst of those grim logistics of funeral arrangements. If you know Brian, you know his […]
  • 2015
    • Do Not Trust Google That Search Results Are Licensed For Reuse In my workshops and materials on finding images licensed for reuse, I do explain how google image search can be used to filter out results that are licensed for reuse. I use this quite often myself, in fact I recommend making a browser search shortcut to make this easy to do. But be wary of […]
  • 2014
    • On the Road With Mariana Funes Talking About DS106 creative commons licensed ( BY-SA ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Before reading this, I suggest reviewing Mariana’s newly shared “The psychology of open: On wrestling your inner MOOC”. It was written for a presentation she is doing June 3 at one of the more interestingly titled and themed conferences — The Higher Education Academy […]
    • Five Points on Creativity as Retro Posters Because she shares and gives so much when asked, I took it seriously to respond to Amy Burvall’s request Hey @dkuropatwa @cogdog @Braddo @WickedDecent @honoria @jimgroom would love your input – plz fwd too pic.twitter.com/0FnATNx62P — ?????????? (@amyburvall) May 17, 2014 A video would be me blabbing generalities. Pass. I got the idea a few […]
  • 2012
    • Faculty Academy 2012: The Canadian Invasion cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog pre-post script: On re-reading this is chaotic and not even close to a full wrap experience of an intense event, and I feel like I left more out than I described. Sigh, blogging about blogging or blogging about not blogging well… It’s hard to blog […]
  • 2011
    • May Story a Day #25: Dad Was a Distance Learner Looking at the old drafting table got me thinking of my Dad again. I found this table among the piles of stuff in our family home basement in Baltimore. Since leaving for college, I had asked Dad for it, and have taken it everywhere I have gone. I drove it across the US in my […]
    • Brain Change BS (Bad Science) cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by spablab A colleague recently shared a link to this Reuters story Is surfing the Internet altering your brain?. My degrees in Geology hardly qualify me to refute brain scientists, but my common sense really wrankles at suggestions such as: “We’re seeing an evolutionary change. The people […]
    • 50 * 3 / 48 The cryptic math is meant to communicate that over the last 2 days (48 hours), I have presented 3 times online 50+ Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story (if you do the math you get a bad pi). Last night was a presentation for Dean Shareski‘s ECMP 355 Course (no web site?), which I […]
  • 2010
    • Openness Begat Openness It feels like an old song to me (nothing wrong with classics), but open content or open education IMHO is not solely focused on the things- the courseware, the things shared – its more about the spirit of sharing openly, and how that multiplies, sometimes on its own accord. This is but a tiny example, […]
  • 2008
    • Ning “the” Thing Nings are everywhere. I’m not necessarily writing here about the virtue (or not) of the build your own social network tool. I’m in a few Nings, and technically/design-wise they have come along way from some of the first ones I recall 3 or 4 years ago when they first came out. No, these is a […]
    • Question Begging to Be Asked…. The psychic should know… by designwallah posted 14 Apr ’08, 10.41pm MDT PST on flickr Let’s see if we are on the same page with this fun image….
    • My Theory on Why We Put Up with Twitter Flakiness Twitter has had a recent nasty string of outages, technical gaffs. Ouch, poor little blue birdie. While I have taken my cheap shots at them, I am liking pondering why, in the fickle fast pace high expectations web 2.0 days we live in (and knowing the “we” there is perhaps not all that inclusive of […]
  • 2006
    • Caught Redhanded Gulp. After telling everyone today about the virtues of using flickr creative commons images, I got caught. I my haste last night to find a banner image for our keynote tag cloud page, I located a nice San Francisco Peaks profile via a creative commons search in Flickrlilli. I did not even register that the […]
    • Tag Clouds Spotted Over Flagstaff The sky over Flagstaff Arizona today was actually crystal clear, but if you had appropriate x-ray glasses on you may have spotted some tag clouds, sprinkled with some Canadian flair. Is that too vague an opening blog post? Okay, today I had the sheer pleasure and honor to co-present, and that verb is used loosely, […]
  • 2005
    • Comment Serendipity Via a recent blog comment I was led by link curiosity to Leigh Blackall’s Teach and Learn Online blog which comes to us from the Blue Mountains of Australia (hence the blue template theme??). From his site, I found a nifty free wiki space called… WikiSpaces where amoung other things like blended learning wikis I […]
    • Go Dog Go! Fetch 5.0 I’ve been waiting a long time for this. Fetch, the Mac OSX ftp tool is released version 5.0, and it finally supports sftp, needed for most of my web transfer work these days. I’ve used string of flaky, bizarre named sftp apps over he last 3 years (CyberDuck, Fugu, and none of them were as […]
    • Oxymoron: Master Planned Blogging Communities Here in the Phoenix area, the housing industry is booming with the roll out of these new “master planned communities”. Physically, these communities are surrounded by high walls and require passing through a security gate to enter, and individual back yards are each walled off. So it looks like Apple Digital Campus Exchange is extending […]
  • 2004
    • First Baby Step for openMLX Colen is hard at work on re-coding the Maricopa Learning eXchange (MLX) for the proposed open-source version we hope to make available as an alpha soon. There is a good deal of restructuring of the code libraries, yanking some code logic from individual PHP files and putting them in the libraries, outlining some functionality needed […]
    • Feed2JS – First Out of the Gate… Just in a few hours of announcing yesterday our new version of the Feed2JS (RSS to JavaScript service/code), David Carter-Tod zoomed out the gate, downloaded the code, and had it up and running in Virginia. As well, he found a minor bug (pesky missing semi-colon) and reminded me to deal with the server parameters for […]

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