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 20 posts previously published on January 29th
- 2025
- Dumping That Load Was So Easy I Forgot I Did it Two Months Ago Getting rid of crap is very satisfying. Especially large piles of stuff that maybe once had value, but now just reeks with the stench of rotting, wet discard food. Pressing the dump lever was quite easy. In fact, after dumping, I went on, and forgot that I had done this. Done what? It was actually […]
- 2024
- No Matter How Much I Stomp on the Delay Pedal Said pedal has no effect on time (me writing the obvious). I am among many many colleagues and friends who have been fortunate to have known, collaborated with, presented with, learned from, played music with or just have had a meaningful conversation with Irwin Devries. His last guitar chord hopefully still rings on in some […]
- 2022
- To Umm or Not To Umm, That is the Audio Editing Question I’m back in the podcast editing saddle with two sessions parked in Audacity for the OEG Voices show and hoping I can pin Antonio Vantaggiato down (or get my own schedule in order) for an overdue Puerto Rico Connection episode. But there is ummmm, something that I have ummmm, being pondering. To me, a universal […]
- 2020
- Net Mirror is the New #NetNarr It’s back. It’s dark, reflective, you are looking into it. It looks “off”. But it’s not. It’s looking at you. Is it? This is the 2020 iteration of a recast Network Narratives, the course I’ve co-taught (completely remotely) at Kean University with Mia Zamora. Things are different this time around, start with the intro that […]
- 2019
- #netnarr Select, Click, ROT Magic We have some fun in Networked Narratives with coded messages using rot13. Just look at the Daily Digital Alchemy 243: It’s just a simple cipher that works by changing each letter in a word to the one that is 13 letters after (wrapping around after Z). It’s nifty, because being half of the number of […]
- 2017
- With This Icicle I Change a Mountain (and in explore, too) I went out on a walk seeking a simple photo of a mountain to use in a class assignment. We have plenty of mountains where I live (I can see one from my back deck), but it’s good to try some different shots. Getting to this ridge means walking a steep dirt driveway to a […]
- Five Card Flickr Stories… Keeps on Ticking It’s been years since I even looked at my own site. I made Five Card Flickr Stories back in 2008 (early blog post). It’s likely the first site I built using an API, and because flickr (who always gets sand kicked in their face) is one of the few web services that has not crapped […]
- 2014
- #FutureEd, An Hour of Video, and April 22, 1993? I have broken some new ground, a MOOC PR. For the first time, I watched a complete week’s worth of video, an hour for a Coursera course (I always feel like adding an extra sera again, “course sera sera, what ever will be will be…). I want to give the Future of Education: blah blah […]
- 2013
- Oh Brother Here is another story demo for ds106, using my Five Card Flickr Stories site to generate a story from 5 random photos drawn from the Daily Create pool. I still find these a lot of fun. Five Card Story: Oh Brother a The Daily Create story created by CogDog flickr photo by Michael Branson Smith […]
- Make The Call This is a demo of a ds106 assignment for my students to get a taste of telling stories with pictures. The task is to use two different photos from recent Daily Create Photo assignments and tie them together with a story, a sandwich if you will. Where am I? Bad dream? Last thing I remember […]
- 2010
- Fantabulous Posterous I was impressed with posterous when I first set my paws on it in August 2008. It is the web site you can build a blog, even a shared collaborative one, via the complex blog authoring platform — email. You can set up a site instantly, with no account needed upfront, and that in itself […]
- 2007
- And Then There Was One (Laptop) And Then There Was One (Laptop)available on flickr Now that is a clean desktop! Over the weekend, I used the OS X migration assistant to move my files and music (a paltry 6 Gb) from the old iBook (vintage 2003) to a separate user account on my MacBook Pro. I have gone from Three laptops […]
- Su Horizon no es mi Horizon Last week was long, I am sure there were 16 days crammed into it. This included flying to Atlanta for the EDUCAUSE/ELI conference, presenting twice on Monday, exiting early Tuesday to hop a flight to Dallas, and being part of a trio running a 3 day workshop. After a late Friday night arrival at home, […]
- 2005
- Poking Around Weather via WAP/WML As a geek happens a lot- I get curious and start poking around on the net, peeking at web page source code. Tonight, I was checking out the NOAA weather forecast for near our cabin and there was a little note near the top: New! Cell Phone (wap) URL: www.srh.noaa.gov/wml Now I have a stone […]
- Word Salad Spam Poetry Rummaging quickly through my filtered email (some legit things keep falling through), I came across one of those ones with 2 cryptic links and then a whole raft of random words. I think the intent is to try and flood or fool email filters (but this is my un-educated guess, but see The War On […]
- Jade Hiccup Sometime between 1:00 Am yesterday and 11:00 am today I think this server was down– I could not ping it nor access any content on it. I was rather worried, knowing that there are many people using Feed2JS for their sites, and the sites will just stay in an endless attempt at loading if the […]
- My Messy Pile of Leaf Tags The new Journal Of the Hyperlinked Organization (JOHO) metaphorically paints folksomony and controlled vocabularies as “trees vs leaves”: Folksonomies are different in important ways from top-down, hierarchical taxonomies — the shape we’ve assumed knowledge itself takes. The old way gets some experts together who create a nested tree of concepts into which everything in a […]
- 2004
- Motivating Drivers- One Person’s Actions Drives Learning E-mail Filters I’ve always had this fascination in the large scale effects from small points of change, punctuated equilbrium not just in evolution and white water rafter trips, but also in human nature (anyone with me on that one?) Actually, I was thinking about a vocal faculty member in our college system that for sake of vagueness, […]
- The Pachyderm is Coming to Town No, this is not about the circus. Well, we hope not. Tomorrow (Jan 30) is our Pachyderm: Building Meaningful Content with Learning Objects Dialogue Day event for about 70 registered participants from our colleges, held at Paradise Valley Community College (our “Dialogue Days” are one day special events, workshops, etc that are organized by our […]
- Conversing with Symantec E-mail Virus Bouncebacks This morning’s unwanted, unwarranted, un-necessary e-mail virus bounceback count = 127 mass deleted. Let’s talk with Symantec’s email message, sent personally to me:
Featured Image: My Photo Made the April Calendar flickr photo by cogdogblog shared into the public domain using Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication (CC0)