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 19 posts previously published on May 17th

  • 2024
    • Enduring Web Stuff, Giving It Away For Free, N=1 The web as whatever we thought we knew it is all going to poop, eh? I don’t disagree about the large parts of it most see on an every day basis. I do wonder though how much we can make these grand assumptions when so many un-explored bits and crevices exist out there that are […]
  • 2023
    • Fourth Month of Daily Doubles: The April Slide Alas, the first three months of the year I kept to my goal/obsession to stay on form for daily flickr photo posting and daily #ds106 daily creates. Yes, I hit the mark for January, February, and March. Alas by April 30, 2023, day 120, my slippage is showing, with 118 daily flickr photos and 108 […]
  • 2018
    • Show/Fork Us The SPLOTS! Daniel Villar has been on fire with the SPLOTs. Not only did he invite me for a workshop last month in Coventry University (and that site is a SPLOT), where we got pre-made versions of them available on Conventry.domains, he recently put three different ones into play for his new OWLTEH project. Beyond this, Daniel […]
  • 2016
    • Passbook Memories… with Interest With time you cannot help accruing memories, they just keep happening, piling up. I’ve read opinions about ed-tech people who go on about how great things were in the early days of the web, or moaning how “twitter is not the same as it was,” are pathetically nostalgic, or worse, for an era that was […]
    • Dog and Cat Look in Vain for Their Attribution Who would have thought a cute photo of a dog and cat hanging out together, used for a DS106 Daily Create, would send me on a journey of non-discovery? This post is part pondering the state of lack of photo attribution, and some speculation that it’s less to do with following rules of giving credit, […]
  • 2013
    • Storytelling: Means/Ends Telling/Making cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by JLM Photography. Disclaimer: Yet another blog post without a destination in mind; this is in the vein of open ended wondering, probably ripe for shooting arrows at. Batteries not included, void where prohibited. I’ve been dabbling, writing, teaching about digital storytelling for years, I […]
    • Drummers, Trains, and Mural Artists I kind of forgot how funky, cool, and outgoing a town is Flagstaff. After settling in at the Monte Vista Hotel, downing some custom brewed coffee, i walked towards the sound fo drums, and found this group of young people dancing, chanting, and pounding drums. I’m here for the tracks, and was treated to a […]
    • Ready to Rail I’ve driven as far as I need to on this trip, 70 miles to Flagstaff. My neighbor was going to drive me here, but he shopped by 2 hours before our planned departure and said he was a bit too nauseous to drive. I was able to ask another friend to drive, even though it […]
    • Three Weeks on The Rails Tomorrow I hit the road again, actually so Saturday I can hit the rails. This is the start of a 3 week trek to the East coast and back. Having done a lot of airline travel, and in 2011-2012 going back and forth by driving, I got this idea/hallucination that it would be fun to […]
  • 2009
    • Flickr CC Attribution Helper Greasemonkey Script This morning I drove down a new coding rode- I’ve never done a Greasemonkey script, so with some help poking around ones I have and Dive into Greasemonkey — here is my crude Flickr CC Attribution Helper. What is does is adds a box on the right side of flickr photo pages — only for […]
  • 2007
    • Being There: nets, tweets, avatars Title is a nod to colleagues in the audience who are film buffs. Is anyone a fan of Chance the Gardner? My metaphor may land askew (not the first time), but as a simple person thrust into a strange new world by sheer circumstance, maybe he was foreshadowing web 2.0– and his child like basic […]
  • 2006
    • Googling the Obscure Technical Answer OR if at first you don’t succeed, search and search again? What started as a simple task chewed up a good hour of time today… Eager to start dabbling in Drupal, I decided to get the needed parts running locally on my MacBookPro. I got MySQL 5.x downloaded and installed. I mucked up my root […]
    • What’s Good About Social Software? There’s been more then enough sound and loud reverberations to the DOPA (or is it DOPE-A?) proposal hovering over Washington D.C. to do.. Tom Hoffman has summarized it better than I could under Being Unreasonably Reasonable (and here too): When it comes to dubious web filtering laws like DOPA, I think you should start with […]
  • 2005
    • The Matrix flickr foto Hybrid Courses Matrixavailable on my flickr Our Ocotillo Hybrid Courses Action Group chair Shelly Rodrigo went wildly over the top with a “Matrix” theme for her demo on the group’s efforts this year… with red pills and blue pills for those faculty considering the plunge into hybrid courses. But I cannot help but […]
    • What a Day! flickr foto We Made The Marqueeavailable on my flickr South Mountain Community College rolled out the big red carpet as host for our Ocotillo Retreat including getting the event on the electronic marquee. I’m too tired to blog much, but today’s Ocotillo retreat was a raging, energetic success, with some 200 attendees taking in 2 […]
    • I Missed My Own Mark (and it’s not about the tools)… Blogging (for me) is a stream of consciousness, not a definitive final answer, but something evolving. In my recent playing with screencasts I leaped to pitching it as another flavor of digital storytelling… but driving in today I was thinking it was a wrong leap… what Jon Udell has done so brilliantly with his screencasts […]
    • The Answer is “#*!$ No!” Robin Good asks, “RSS Ads: Should We Push Unrequested Advertisements Into RSS Pull?” No commentary needed here. Nope. Nada. Go away.
  • 2004
    • Google.Vanity: RSS2JS Sprinklings Again, I should be working on something important, but for idle curiosity I was fishing in the Ocean Google to try and find where other folks have been using our RSS To Javascript code/service: http://www.google.com/search?q=rss2js.php%3Fsrc%3D It is an interesting mmix of people running off of our server as well as running it on their own […]
    • Group Communication Tools: Big Multi-tools? Pliers and Screwdriver? I’ve been in a number of collaboration initiatives that aim to use online collaboration tools or “virtual community building” and sometimes it feels like the frustration of combing through one of those 90 function multi-tools when all you really need is a basic knife. While not convinced the tools make or break the projects (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)