This is my entry for today’s Daily Create:

You look for a representation of DS106 in the world, and you find something close, but [not] quite it. Find something like that.

Heck today’s tag #tdc1607 is like that. Almost a 106 but not.

I have been looking at the …

Seems like there is someone who will not be named making bootleg #ds106 socks. What’s more, 4 pair were delivered to my door this afternoon in a neatly packed bundle.

And given the resulting strife from the perceived notion that certain backers did not get their appropriate socks due, I …

I don’t know how many ways we can count the genius of Alan Levine on the web, but add this Storify to the mounting evidence. And how about recent ds106 all-star Terry Greene playing some insane Lebowski GIF tennis? I’m more than happy the #sockgate fervor has died down, it …

Hosting Advice feature on Reclaim Hosting

A month or so ago Alexandra Leslie of Hosting Advice reached out to us to find out a bit about who we are (i.e. Reclaim Hosting) and how we got started. Turns out they got wind of this small, niche hosting company that …

UMW student, Digital Knowledge Center employee, and #noir106 alumna Nora Forknail put together a pretty badass advice video for students thinking about taking the single greatest course known to humanity: ds106! I am cruising in the blog wake of Paul Bond, who already featured it, but it was …

Recently I was moving a shared hosting client from one of our older servers to a newer one because of some performance issues she was having given the resource needs of her site. I used CPanel’s Transfer Tool for this, and I wanted to quickly note how powerful it is. …

The Garden of Earthly Delights, right panel – Detail

Taking a page from Paul Bond’s book, I used a quote from Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian for this post. Here is the entire passage:

A legion of horribles, hundreds in number, half naked or clad in costumes attic or …

Alan Levine threw out a fun #ds106 assignment asking folks to rework the OER16 ticket to ride design poster, which I personally think is a great design.

Alan riffed with his own Beatle Mania take:

Alan Levine’s “Ticket to Ride” for OER16

And then I saw the venerable Tom Woodward…

Yesterday was Fat Tuesday, and Carvnival is a thing here in Italy. Just this weekend we went to the small mountain town of Villaggio in a nearby valley. The folks who dress-up spent the entire day going from town to town in costume drinking eating and generally reveling until the …

Today’s Daily Create asks you to “Do a Duke Selfie” referring to the most iconic figure of U.S. Westerns: John Wayne. Love him or hate, he has been part of so many of the greatest films of this genre that it’s hard to ignore him once you start digging …

I am back in Fredericksburg for a few days for some business and house cleaning. I head up to NYC on Tuesday, so it will be a fairly quick turn here, but it’s always exhilarating to spend some quality time with my pardner Tim Owens. Yesterday was particularly eventful …

I cheated a bit on today’s Daily Create, which asked us to “take a photo of your favorite watering hole.” As soon as I saw the prompt I knew I was going to recycle a short video I took a few months back when I was first discovering the …

The above photo, “Transformative,” was my entry for the first #ds106 Daily Create four years ago. The assignment was a straightforward photo assignment: “Create a photograph that features a repeating pattern.” Simple, suggestive prompts like this were very much in the vein of the now defunct Daily Shoot. In …

Joaquin Murrieta “Bad Guy” from Young Frankenstein

Today’s Daily Create features Robin Hood, a testament to the dearth of anything resembling a Western culture in Britain. Poor bastards! The West was definitely not won in green tights. Regardless, the whole steal from the rich give to the poor theme …

Today’s Daily Create is pretty awesome. It provides an old gold map of the Oregon Territory published in 1844  via the David Rumsey Map Collection, and asks you to pick a spot on the map that would provide the setting of a story. Our job is “to write the …

The Western 106 force is strong with me these days. I even watched John Ford’s Stagecoach (1939) last night, but more on that in another post. For now I’ll be talking about today’s Daily Create which asks us to make GIFs from the “Get three coffins ready” scene in …

John Crawford as Vienna in Johnny Guitar

After seeing today’s Daily Create priming folks to do some research for the coming Western-themed ds106, I got the urge to write about a particular Western (although not a Spaghetti Western) that rules: Nicholas Ray’s 1954 Western dream vision Johnny …

Below are the slides and a transcript of the text I planned to follow when I delivered my talk this morning at the EDEN Annual Conference in Barcelona. That said, I didn’t keep to the script because I get too excited and just ran with things. Let this be the …

I am preparing a talk for Thursday that revisits a journal article Brian Lamb and I wrote in late 2008, early 2009 for the Universities and Knowledge Societies Journal (RUSC) titled “The Education of as Un-Artist…or is that the un-education of the technologist?” It’s an unorthodox approach to …