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 20 posts previously published on December 12th

  • 2024
  • 2023
    • On Demand Smart Links for Songs, Albums, Podcasts As usual, my favorite mode for discovering internet nuggets (c.f. bag of gold) are ones I was not looking for and pretty much stumble into while doing something else. Thus it was I found On Demand Smart Links, which honestly sounds like a buzzword. I deduce this was previously called Song.Link (yup, redirect) as a […]
  • 2022
    • Better than Radar Matic! Adding More WordPress Autoembeds to Your Kit Oh WordPress, how I love the, let me count the ways… well one of the ways is the ease of embedding all kinds of media sources just with a simple URL. I am surprised seeing so often authors on WordPress sites adding a link to a YouTube video, when it is even simpler to embed […]
  • 2019
    • Extending SPLOTbox Capabilities With a Plugin Can you believe it? This is another SPLOT blog post. Why? I’m trying to keep up with myself. The SPLOTbox has turned into a WordPress theme that can be used for sites where uses contribute items framed around video, audio, and now, image content. The Built In Variety Pack Not turkey, but media… The media […]
  • 2017
    • Storify is Dead. Who Needs it? Storify is dying. But WordPress AutoEmbed is your friend Yet Another Web Bites the Dusthttps://t.co/nt53jVYd75 Get your stuff off of the dying ship Storify and put it permanently on a domain of your own. https://t.co/Dv5UzTJC31 — Alan Levine ☠ (@cogdog)... Continue Reading →
    • Give Me Random Featured Posts or … well, not In which I detail obscure WordPress tinkering and celebrate doing what happens with a small amount of understanding… Despite the expected mockery of some harsh critics I’ve been really happy with the change over in August to this newest outer dressing on this blog (do you keep your own history? It’s a good practice if […]
  • 2016
    • Animating #HortonFreire: We Make the Read By Annotating I cannot offer a rationale explanation why I have spent a chunk of time since Sunday trying to animate a book cover. But I can tell you that once the idea of it materialized in my brain, I could not let it go. Expect another overly long, typo-ridden blog post of explanation. But for now, […]
  • 2015
    • From the EDUPUNK Documentary Cutting Room Floor Muchas gracias to the people who commented or messaged me about the 15 minute EDUPUNK retrodocumentary I produced for a presentation this week at the University of Guadalajara. As it turns out, we played only the first few minutes (up to the Quincy re-dub) as (a) it was too long and (b) most of the […]
  • 2014
    • #over / #notover … no one decides Okay Connected Course students, assessment time. True or False? It’s actually some sort of inside out zen riddle. Pretty much the concept of a course as most all of us know through decades of conditioning is that classes/courses are clearly bounded in time. The school sets the schedule, the teacher gives out the final grade. […]
    • It Might Only Buy 2 Cups of Coffee in LA, But… … support Hack Education, support Audrey Watters. Do I really need to spell out the reasons? Are you reading her year end summaries of educational technology? Do you get that she represents a consistent, often critical, unbiased, unbought by sponsorship voice in our field? So $10 a month from me may not go far. But […]
  • 2013
    • ds106 Radio Rises From the Ashes cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine The ds106 radio has been silent for 2 days. The station doors were locked shut, lights off, and only faint sounds of scurrying and muffled electrical tools were heard. But as reported by Grant Potter, the ice weasels were successful in rebuilding a […]
  • 2012
    • Fuzzy Memory of Aunt Bebe Aren’t I cute in my blue tuxedo? That is me and my Aunt “Bebe” at the time of my Bar Mitzvah, in May of 1976. I had no clue, and I wonder if she did, that in 7 months she would be dead from cancer. Attached to the side of her refrigerator was Mom’s Big […]
  • 2011
    • Regrets, Yes, I had not watched many TED Talks recently, but given large swaths of not having internet in Australia (once again, no thanks to Optus for screwing me out of my money and my data plan). I watched a few episodes on the bus/plane/internet-less hotels on my iPad. Now I know some people dismiss TED as […]
  • 2008
    • Excitable Learning is Contagious About two weeks ago I got to Skype video chat from Iceland with Brian Crosby’s 6th grade students in Reno; and, as luck had it, I had a visit December 10 with his school district. So I made it in the plans to visit the kids at Agnes Risley Elementary School. Talk about excited motivated […]
    • A Quick One While He is Not Away Just toying around with the new QuickPress feature on the WordPress 2.7 dashboard. Sweet! Am just getting used to all my links on the left. I love the new dashboard features, being able to move ’em around, hide ’em Nice to see a few changes to the media uploader (looks like defaults match the way […]
    • Among the Wizards Note- I wrote a bit of this while I was waiting for a highway to re-open… It looks like I have offline time for some slow blogging. I am writing this from the front seat of my car, stuck in a highway closure on Arizona Highway 87, whose nickname is the “Beeline Highway”. The bees […]
  • 2007
    • Ain’t to Proud to Beg (sponsor $$) Medaling is Just Finishing posted 9 Dec ’07, 12.05pm MST PST on flickr Award for completing the 2007 Fiesta Bowl Half Marathon, in Scottsdale (2:21 slow going!) — this is just the half way in prep for my first Marathon a month from now. I’ve casually watched, and greatly impressed, by the ways people are […]
    • Liebook? How is that for timing? The day after last rant about the way Facebook sends messages by email (“You have a message! I know it! You Don’t! But I wont tell you unless you visit me and get sucked into my vortex! hahahaha” might that be McLuhan on the side, “the message is not the […]
  • 2005
    • Pill Time Hmm, the last slew of things written here have been rather snippy. It might be time to see the doctor and get some more blue pills.
  • 2003
    • “The Long After Life of Simulation Software: Hidden Agenda” Some folks are rather big on the use of games and simulations for learning. So were we.. back in 1995. Here is another article from our Fall 2003 issue of the mcli Forum. In “The Long After Life of Simulation Software: Hidden Agenda”, we interviewed Jim Gasperini who had created in the late 1980s a […]

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