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 16 posts previously published on May 26th
- 2025
- Slop is As Slop Does Slop, slop, slop, each day its more of a effort to not step in the GenAI slop. Can Gump wisdom be any help? The gaffe by the Chicago Sun Times is an easy target, for publishing insert of summer features a list of books to read… that mostly do not exist. It’s almost too easy […]
- 2018
- Son of a Lawnman My Dad’s domain as the green grass lawn of our suburban Baltimore home. It was so much, that when he got his personal email address it started with “lawnman”. He was fanatic at watering, seeding, fertilizing, and hand pulling dandelions. In early memories there was some kind of gas powered lawn mower he used that […]
- 2017
- Pause As much as I loathe those blog posts or click bait pieces about digital detox or sanctimonious drivel about giving up an iphone for a few weeks I’m letting it be known (as if it matters) that I’m going non-active online for maybe 4 days. The only, only, only reason I bother is that a […]
- 2016
- I of Abraham There goes that calendar reminder. Today is the day in 1956 that my grandfather, Abraham passed away, seven years before I was even born. I know he died young; his wife lived until 2003; outliving her husband by 47 years is staggering. I am not sure when he was born, somewhere I have in a […]
- Occam’s Reuse License For a while I was saving screen shots of some of the convoluted license statements I come across in Wikimedia Commons. There were ones where images were public domain in one country, but of course here in the US Congress every few years extends copyright like another 50 years. One of the most “crappy” set […]
- 2015
- My Grandfather Was Kind of a Big Deal in the Construction Business That photo looks a little like me, but that is my grandfather, who passed away 59 years ago today. I can picture that framed image as it was in the wood paneled basement of the house I grew up in Baltimore. It sat in a space on a wall of bookshelves, sitting above the old […]
- 2014
- Maricopa OER Practitioners: David Weaver creative commons licensed ( BY-SA ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog As part of my fellowship for the OER Research Hub at the Open University I am sharing these excerpts from conversations about OER use/creation recorded in April 2014 with faculty at the Maricopa Community Colleges. This is the third of the six that should/will […]
- 2013
- No Parking in the #ds106 Zone cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine You don’t sit still or idle here either. This was a “No Parking Tow Away Zone” spotted at the Depew NY train station. The text was easy to replace with Helvetica Neu font; that’s a crop of Rod Serling sitting on the edge […]
- 2011
- dotSubbing It’s beena while since I played with dotSUB, the crowdsource site for translating video captions into other languages. I decided to givre it a play with the video I made last month for 50+ Web 2.0 Ways to tell a story. I first uploaded the video to dotSub. I thne noticed that it had an […]
- From the CogDogLab: Pechaflickr Here is a new toy to play with- announcing Pechaflickr, the pecha kucha + battle decks + flickr mashup. Type in a tag, click “play”, and you will be served up 20 random flickr photos, displayed each for 20 seconds. The idea is to have people practice the art of improv to a set of […]
- 2006
- The Smell of Comment Spam Sizzling at Feedburner Sigh, here is another yet another lame comment spam effort I spotted starting today, scanning the scum that is caught in the Spam Karma 2 nets on this blog. Comment spammers are using Feedburner to insert into the URl field things like http://feeds.feedburner.com/BuyHotPokerPillsPorn — all in the hope of hoisting some pages somewhere on the […]
- 2005
- Bloggregation As a follow-up to the Emerging Trends workshops at San Diego State University earlier this week, I was asked by participant who had just created new blog sites, “How do we find each others blogs” and by the planners, “Hey Alan, you’re an RSS guru, how can we syndicate them into one place?”. So I […]
- ABC Radio National (Aussies Podcasting) Let’s give a big “good on ya, ‘mate!” for the Australia’s ABC Radio National site for offering a ton of their audio in mp3 / podcast format. You can poke around the site and find them, or see the listng of the podcast URLs I googled to I Love Radio.org. This discovery was totally web […]
- 2004
- Hey, Not So Icky- Inside Blackboard Lurks a Wiki Thanks to a friend inside Blackboard, I got a peek a few weeks ago at a Building Block (plug-ins for Blackboard) that provides a wiki functionality inside the Blackboard environment. I’d put up some screen shots, but the Bb Showcase site seems to be offline right now. What was interesting was the shying away from […]
- SCORM for Dummies One of our faculty members taking on leadership of our learning objects action group is getting up to speed on learning about learning objects…. Donna sent this “Cliff Notes” version of SCORM: This is an overview of the Sharable Courseware Object Reference Model. It’s hard to make technical standards understandable (much less interesting). Nonetheless, here’s […]
- Feed2RSS: Minor Cleanups and Fixing My Goofs It’s been nice getting wide and praising notes, comments, trackbask about the new Feed2RSS— I must admit being eager to rush it out and while the MagpieRSS seems to be running smoothly, I had a few minor goofs that others have nicely pointed out. If you started using the new version or have downloaded it, […]
Featured Image: My Photo Made the April Calendar flickr photo by cogdogblog shared into the public domain using Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication (CC0)