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 27 posts previously published on March 29th

  • 2025
  • 2024
    • Get Federated Got Gasta-Ed The Gasta is now passed-ah.. Oi that does not exactly work, but here I am on the return trip from the OER24 conference, out my window pink light over Greenland, trying to write a blog post, offline. Because, after all the AI tremors have stilled or knocked down all the castles, the blog, the act […]
  • 2021
    • pechaflickrcommons Are there really neat lines of cause/effect action in the possibility place the internet, 2021 warts and all, still provides? My best experiences there are ones that could never be anticipated. The antidote to artificial intelligence and algorithmic forces are the human especially the quirky ones, that cannot be GANned or blockchained or predicted. An […]
  • 2018
    • The SPLOT? Billboards for the Mystery of the Internet at #PressEdConf18 It’s one of those things to keep your attention on long drives. From hundreds of miles away are billboards enticing you to check out The Thing in southern Arizona. From a piece in Vice: The Thing is advertised on billboards stretching hundreds of miles, from Arizona to Texas, but it’s impossible to understand The Thing […]
  • 2016
    • The Film Review Approach… and a Powerful, Unexpected Message This is where I might start with “I don’t know a lot about film” or “I’m not a film critic”. I’ve used before the extras on DVDs and its relation to the film as a metaphor for blogging about our work and the final paper/media production/presentation. And a long time ago, in a career far […]
    • Me on Futzing When I went down to Tucson two weeks ago to hang out with my friend/colleague Shelley Rodrigo (Shelley, you left ODU for UA, get yerself a domain!) part of the trip was to meet some colleagues at a Cyber-Salon hangout. Shelley invented the one I participated in in Phoenix starting in 2008, later copied by […]
    • Google Saves Oh, Google, there you go again. Sometime since this morning, when I searched Google Images for my blog post, and later in the day (now), when I did it again, I saw two buttons that were not there before: It looks like they just dropped a new feature in. Yep, look at this, you can […]
    • What Your Group’s Passionate Arguments Look Like Think of a topic that you deeply care about. That you advocate for. Or argue with others who have a different viewpoint. In my world, maybe it’s Open Education. Or MOOCs. Or cMOOCs (POOCS, SMOOCS DOOCS…) Badges. Textbooks. Learning Analytics. Maybe your passionate discussions are not quite monkeys tossing excrement, but have you ever pondered […]
    • Piles of Things Bear with me as I step with trepidation into philosophical murk with this question: If one accumulates a great deal of small quantifiable things, does it necessarily, by accumulation, equate to something larger, more complex? Huh? Get to the tl;dr dude! No way. I am never that organized. I might not even be sure what […]
  • 2015
    • Making of a WordPress Based Presentation The last semi-official act of my fellowship was a presentation made with Brian Lamb for BCCampus Open Education Week. Also billed as a TIE talk, it was hosted and live streamed at the University of Victoria (waiting on the video […]
    • Playing in ~ With The Weblodium Given a recent spate of web nostalgia for my TCC keynote, it was a natch to play with something for the tilde club site Jim Groom (more likely Tim Owens) set up Looks like #ds106 finally has it's own Tilde Club, and guess who got the first site? http://t.co/NhiGtVZEBS Let me know if you want […]
  • 2013
    • Recap Week 1/3 in Asia: Japan (part a!) cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog I’m back almost a week from an incredible and intense and fantastic three week trip to Japan, Singapore, and Hong Kong — all pretty much enabled by network connections among nice people. So much happened I had to make a spreadsheet to help me […]
  • 2012
    • Humbly Wrong: ds106 Overrun with Respect cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by Horia Varlan Not the first, not the last, but I humbly claim being dead wrong about ds106 not getting the MOOC respect. We get tons of it. Check it out, after 7 hours, the DS106: The Open Online Community of Digital Storytellers Kickstarter campaign, launched around […]
  • 2011
    • Raging River / Lonely Trail cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Today’s excursion in the Fossil Springs Wilderness Area was both mind cleansing but also connected me with the memory of another trip, to a much bigger stream, back in 1991 when I did a 9 day Grand Canyon river trip. I was also reminded after […]
    • Calling in to New Media Faculty Seminar cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by OiMax Last Friday I was a remote facilitator for the group at Houston Community College’s New Media Faculty Seminar being coordinated by Tom Haymes. With my changes at NMC and gardner Campbell’s transition to Virginia Tech, we’ve not been very active, but Gardner is cooking up […]
  • 2010
    • Roundabout the WordPress Hackery cc licensed flickr photo shared by theilr It’s been a while since I did some WordPress hacking, and today I think it showed. Like a good bone I could not let go of a niggling little problem, and then after going around in circles, I found an obvious way that was much more simpler than […]
  • 2009
    • Off On a Mission Lola on the beach by ambertq posted 22 Oct ’08, 12.48pm MDT PST on flickr I have to leave town tonight. I have a red-eye to Newark and hopefully a connection and some information when I get to the next place. You see, my older sister and her husband have not been home since November. […]
  • 2008
    • Street View Movies I cannot even remember what I was doing poking around San Francisco with Google Maps, but I was looking around The City with the Street View option turned on it was along a stretch of a street I notice that as I move around, I was following the same car. This makes sense as the […]
  • 2006
    • After All, Wiki Does Mean Quick Two days ago, a colleague at one of our colleges asked me what wiki software our district provides. I responded, “none” (In Maricopa, such services are hosted at each college), but I took the opportunity to suggest that he try one of the free, externally hosted ones to experiment and flesh out some content or […]
    • More Stupid, Absurd Email Spam I get email requests all the time for link exchanges generated by the visibility of the MCLI web site in Google (a virtue of having thousands of old web pages?). Today’s takes the cake, the icing, and the last bottle of cold beer: Greetings! While surfing the web, I came across your excellent resource of […]
  • 2005
    • Is Digital Storytelling Hot or What? Today we announced the opening of registration for our May 16-20 Learnshop “Bringing Digital Storytelling to the Classroom LearnShop”— with 12 available spots. Check out the chronology: * 08:53:24 AM : email announcement sent * 09:03:22 AM : first registrant signs up * 11:03:24 AM : 12th registrant signs up 2 hours and 10 minutes […]
    • CDB Greatest Hits All 837 of ’em Since I am pondering doing the MovableType to WordPress conversion, I’ve done a bit of reflecting on the last two years of blogging. Nothing profound has emerged, but I did start to think about the part of a blog post I spend the most time on (obviously it is not spell checking) — coming up […]
    • A Lamb Comes to Phoenix Some might squint at my ethics, but by an interesting sequence of events, this Friday Brian Lamb is coming to Maricopa for a Dialogue Day on Learning objects, Wikis, and Other Curious Things. Brian and I have done a number of great collaborations since we both started chatting at one of those stale lecture format […]
    • Moving UseMod Wikis Lock, Stock, and Barrel You can have your wiki and move it too. Several times this past year (and well this past week) I have had reason to move an entire UseMod wiki to another server. It is easy and tricky at the same time, and I think I have it all figured out now. One need was to […]
    • Acting Digitally, Acting Paperly flickr foto The Result of Our Online Application Programavailable on my flickr Over the past two years we developed and implemented an online system for faculty to submit applications for professional growth summer projects, for their reps to review applications, for a committee to submit their scores. Sadly, they insist on this– printed versions of […]
    • Cooler! More Frivolous? Dynamic Flickr Speller For Your Web Page Regarding the recently blogged More Frivolous Fun: Spelling with Flickr, there is a new feature that you can use a small chunk of cut and paste JavaScript to put in the source of your web page, and have it dynamically create a different set of flickr-ed letters on every page reload… think of it as […]
    • My Dentist Has an RSS Feed Two years, a year ago, it was noteworthy when feedless-sites were worth announcing they had added an RSS feed. Is it really newsworthy anymore? There is some sort of tipping point at work here, just curious if the threshold has been lost. It takes me back 10, 11, 12 years ago when the first web […]

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