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 22 posts previously published on May 8th
- 2016
- Great Writing is Above The Medium I read two articles online this week that truly stood out as great writing, both by authors I have read before and found to be great writers. No news there. Nor is there in the idea for my first title for this post, it was going to be “Great Writing is Great Writing (duh).” Why […]
- Today is a Good Day to GIF While #western106 has long ridden off the horizon (or sunk into the desert sand), I had a movie left to finish watching. For longer than I can remember, I’ve loved Little Big Man for a number of things, but on so many levels its a Western that does not exactly act like one. Actually what […]
- No Puzzle about Missing Mom Mother’s Day without your Mom leaves a big space to comb through the past. I cannot count myself fortunate enough that on my last visit with her in 2011 (never expecting it to be the last), that I got her to record some audio stories of her past, growing up, her family life, meeting my […]
- 2014
- Mesh Networks of People In a meeting/chat this morning with Beck Pitt about her work here at the OER Research Hub, I mumbled something how these kinds of informal conversations with people and their projects more often then not ends up generating unexpected connections down the line. I see these brief meetups this week as more like potential nodes […]
- When This Dude Looks Up From His Phone I Have Something To Show Him Set your sanctimonious crap shields to 10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XvhAsJPXj1M Put it on the shelf of classics like shallowness of people who take an Amish Technology break bravely going cold turkey FOR 25 WHOLE DAYS. I think the dude should go out with Sherry Turkle for a long walk on the beach to debate the finer points […]
- 2012
- Cowbirding cc licensed ( BY ND ) flickr photo shared by hans s Based on the recommendation of Barbara Ganley (one of whom I would recommend following recommendations thereof) for the past few weeks I’ve been dabbling in Cowbird, an online storytelling platform that center heavily on photography as well as original writing. Cowbird is one […]
- 2011
- May Story a Day #8: Six Word Story Caught Checking In to Morrison Hotel cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Some of the best creative challenges in the digital story game are ones that limit the things you can do; the creativity is in working in that space. A perfect example is the Six Word Story Group in flickr: […]
- May Story a Day #7: New York Moments I tried as hard as I can to post this yesterday, but the apps and the nets failed. I was sitting there in Washington Square park, and awash in seeing all kinds of human stories play out. There were film students doing a project, tourists being taken in by the card tricksters, breakdancers doing movies, […]
- 2009
- I’m Doing Number 8 From TechCrunch comes Twitter Is Down: 15 Alternative Things To Do: Talk about Twitter being down on FriendFeed Talk about Twitter being down on Facebook Talk about Twitter being down over IM Leave a comment on a blog post about Twitter being down (preferably this one) Talk about Twitter being down via text message Talk […]
- GSearch in GMail is GGreat New in Google Labs is an add-on for having embedded web search in your email space- this means while composing a message, there is right in the mail interface a search form. The results appear in a GChat pop-up/overlay, and the results can be directly inserted into your message. In this case, I am emailing […]
- 2008
- Alltel That Ends Well? Will This Redeem Alltel? by cogdogblog posted 7 May ’08, 10.13pm MDT PST on flickr My battle to escape jail of my wireless internet provider seems in vain, but they did send me, for free, a newer USB mode, that actually has software for the Mac and promises to be a stronger connection (time shall […]
- Play The Subversive Game: Make Starbucks Say “Large” I really do not mind Starbucks as an establishment. They are comfy places and serve my favorite drinks, yes at inflated prices, but I succumb. My own, silly pet peeve is that stupid language thing when you order a drink. I want a “big” drink, so I describe it as “large”, and they say, “Venti”. […]
- 2006
- My Favorite Canadian Export Thanks Canada!
- Back! flickr foto available on flickr That’s right, he’s back. Not his back! Stephen Downes is back in the blog saddle. Hold on for a wild ride.
- Blog Long Tail Much Longer, Wagging Okay, I know there are a lot of blogs. And it seems we are still at an inflection point, so soon there are going to be A LOT OF BLOGS. The long tail of blog is growing longer by the second. Yee-hah! Ride the tail! It just struck me as I was counting down with […]
- Lather. Rinse. Repeat. Does he ever get weary of it? It’s not a criticism (really! I mean it, sincerely). I admire someone who can take a show on the road like that. I got worn out after one repeat. Wow.
- Free Is Good At The Airport I’m again at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport for another jaunt out of town. I recalled reading somewhere online a few weeks ago that the airport was offering free wireless, not the pay through your nose service that was there before. Sure enough, flipping open the laptop, there it is: This is a welcome change from […]
- 2004
- Gifts for the (not so fine) folks at Cykanax Woah, I lifted a rock on post about the pachyderm project from last month, and 6 spam roaches came scurrrying out. It seems the thoughtful folks at Cykan*ax were so impressed with the educational possibilities of Pachyderm that they wanted to share their “fantasies”, “group activities”, and other things about beasts, though they seemed to […]
- 2003
- Tufte bullets PowerPoint Oh this should be good- the supreme master of information density and visual displays takes a look at Mark Milliron refers to as “no power and no point”…. Edward Tufte: The Cognitive Style of Powerpoint
- Why Teachers Don’t Share… This paper by Greg Webb (Open Training and Education Network, OTEN, New South Wales, Australia) is from 2000, but has always been hanging out in my bookmarks. Read more and see what Greg says about Why teachers don’t share resources, and what we can do about it .
- Brainstorming LOs (May 2002) One of the discussion topics at Maricopa’s May 2002 Ocotillo Retreat, we had people work in groups to produce “blueprints” for various instructional techniology topics. See the Cafˆà Discussions: Library of Re-usable Learning Objects for the activity and see the summary and images of sketches.
- Learning Object Readings Learning Objects Readings assembled by Micheael Roy at Wesleyan for a new Learning Object site being developed there (worth a click and look). Their project sounds interesting and is using some (free) web portal tools from the Internet Scout project
Featured Image: My Photo Made the April Calendar flickr photo by cogdogblog shared into the public domain using Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication (CC0)