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 24 posts previously published on November 17th
- 2022
- Digging For Alt Text Image Metadata My last long winded nerdy post on image accessibility veered far off the path of possible interest from anyone (or maybe everyone is too busy trying to sort out their move to Mastodon). The thing is, my brain is not done with this. Most of the things I whinged on depended on systems, tools to […]
- 2018
- Now With Previews: TRU Collector SPLOT Coming soon, well now, to a SPLOT near you- the ability to preview content before you submit it. Try a beta version now at http://splot.ca/collector/collect — or see this mini screen capture video: Because it was aimed at longer content, the TRU Writer SPLOT has always had a built in way to preview content before […]
- 2016
- Join Our Slack Channel We have a new community area for people interested in talking about the certification project. Creative Commons recently announced the opening of their new real time conversation place on Slack. It’s quite active and a bit easier to use then the existing IRC channel (though if you love IRC, the two spaces are now connected). […]
- 2015
- TRU Collector WordPress Theme Ready for Brave Testers In prep for an Open Ed 2015 presentation with Brian Lamb on our world famous SPLOTs (“SPLOTs and Darkweb Plots: Advancing and Supporting Open Educational Experiences” Lamb-ian title), I spent a bit of time on the plane and here in Vancouver cleaning up the github repository for the TRU Collector SPLOT. This is another WordPress […]
- 2014
- Is That Pigeon Hole Half Empty or Half Full? creative commons licensed ( BY-NC-SA ) flickr photo shared by batintherain Do you see more than you don’t see? Is there nothing in what you don’t see? What if you never see the bird? More metaphorical nonsensical questions? Or shall I for the first time toss at a TL;DR? No, this is not too long, […]
- 2013
- Triple Dog Dare for Remix / Mashups Weeks 13 & 14 You are tired. Worn out. Your creativity tank is running on empty. You have too much email to read. All you want to do is Vine. You have found other things more interesting things to do than ds106. Too bad. For the next two weeks, the Headless ds106 winds into its last topic – a […]
- The Wayback Machine as a Reclaimists Best Friend cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine Jim recently lamented the loss of media from blip.tv citing maybe the most insanely great presentation ever done in Second Life with flamethrowers and zombies– a presentation Jim , Tom Woodward, and Brian Lamb crafted for the 2008 NMC Virtual Symposia on Rock […]
- 2011
- Your Work Speaks for Itself cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog You might wait for someone/something to condone your credentials. To me, it is of even more importance that you always be doing that effort yourself to make sure there is evident of what you are capable of. Why wait passively for some sticker? Yes, I […]
- The Long Last Stretch cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by Hambo The travel is wearing on me. I am not complaining (much). This whole experience is wrapped up in the gift of my god mother’s memory for making it posible, and the stream of memories of connections made, re-made, made new by people I […]
- Metal Monsters Day four of the Fort Myers (FL) to Strawberry (AZ) CogDog Express. It’s been drive, drive, drive. Today was the stretch of Texas from Dallas to Amarillo, and the dry southwest land I know and feel just slowly, every slowly merged – the big sky, the sparse plants, the space- big wide space. With a […]
- 2010
- In Which I Paw Around with Definitions cc licensed flickr photo shared by Horia Varlan When a discussion veers into debates of definitions of terms, my yawn reflex usually kicks into gear, so its with some trepidation (and concerns of comments lambasting my hypocrisy so I am claiming it now). Like many I get muddy whether I cam referring to something as […]
- 2008
- More Zombie Survival Tips It is too late for Jim Groom and Tom Woodard who cinematicly presented warnings about zombies for the NMC Rock the Academy Symposium, but I missed a key resource for the zombie intrigued. How remiss to have not shared the Common Craft cult classic- Zombies in Plain English: There was so much there I did […]
- Geocommons Makes it Easy for Anyone to Mashup Data & Maps Sometimes it can take months to answer a question; Robert, a colleague I met in Shanghai who teaches at Fudan University asked if I knew of any tools that would make it easy for his journalism students to generate their own mashups of data and maps. I did not have an answer then; I talked […]
- 2007
- Unknown Flowers and The Most Amazing Story of Web Serendipity This story is old news if you followed my trail last month through Australia. Being up again in Strawberry, Arizona, and seeing flowers tll blooming in mid November (global warming is hot here) got me thinking again about the most amazing example of web serendipity that happened in Tasmania. It’s one of those thing that […]
- 2006
- WP 2.0.5. Updated WordPress. Time on task, about 4 minutes. Easy-Peasy. Now I need to tend to a few other WP sites I have laying around elsewhere,
- Users Per Tag Tools? I am sure there are things like this out there, but when I was doing my simple stats for flickr tagging, I took the very inefficient method of paging through the flickr tag pages and listing unique user names. Surely there is some flickr tool that can tell how many unique users have used a […]
- Conference Tag Redux As a follow-up to my post on small numbers of people doing tagging, as of today, for our NMC Regional Conference held last week in San Antonio, we have tagged in flickr 393 photos from 11 individuals, more than we had at our summer conference in Cleveland where the attendence was 3 times as large […]
- City Class My wife and I have been taking a class together… nothing formal, but our city of Scottsdale offers a City Government 101 class, which meets every other week where you get to learn about a different department. It’s been everything from finance to water resources to trash to libraries to police/fire… one of the highlights […]
- 2004
- The Big New Zealand Finale: “Rip. Mix. Learn.” Today is my last day in a little slice of green heaven known as New Zealand where I have been visiting and giving workshops at several institutions in the Auckland area (see the CogDog’s upside down inverted cousin, the CogDog(kiwi)Blog). Among other bits, I’ve been stirring up the interest in wikis here– and like my […]
- Feedster Blog Search Feedster is offering a new search tool to help you find content that comes from weblogs, a handy way to scope your web searches. For the uninitiated, Feedster provides a google-like interface for searching things found in RSS feeds. It offers tools to store your own set of feeds (like another flavor of Bloglines as […]
- 2003
- Learning About Learning Objects (LALO) Here is another new learning objects “hub” site (a PHP-Nuke supported site) called Learning About Learning Objects . I clicked and clicked and clicked trying to find the elusive “About” statement, failing, and found this on a site that seemed to be the prototype: The process of implementing SDCCD Online to date has highlighted several […]
- BlogShop del Norte (UBC) Recently Brian Lamb and Jim Sibley conducted a Canadian Blogshop at the University of British Columbia, and plentifully acknowledged the materials in our BlogShop from down here in the far south Canadian hinterland province of Arizona 😉 Actually the UBC version takes it a notch further by posting the workshop materials in a wiki. I […]
- 3 LO Searches for 1 Query: Merlot’s Federated Search Zoom-zoom. More power for those looking for learning objects or instructional resources. MERLOT’s Federated Search allows you to enter keywords (say “cell mitosis”) and with one click conduct a search of MERLOT, Australia’s )EdNA Online, and the Science Math resources of SMETE. Actually the EdNA folks had demo-ed this first at the MERLOT 2003 conference […]
- Spam Roaches Could Not Find it Here More detective work with analysis of web server logs with AWstats shows that poor spammers are unable to find their links on my web site. Alas! What is a roach to do! Does that mean that they will target me next? No luck, as they are blocked at the door by the MTBlacklist army boot. […]
Featured Image: My Photo Made the April Calendar flickr photo by cogdogblog shared into the public domain using Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication (CC0)