Happy (Belated) Birthday Dolly, Robert and Edgar!
Check out the awesome horse ride that may yet happen (when time machines finally go mainstream) @ La Vie Megan
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We’re Chained to the World, and We All Gotta Pull…
Reading Martha Burtis’ (Neatness has no place in education.) this morning, and processing it and Tom’s Giving it Away against the crackling energy, the “smell of ozone and giddy, prickly-skin feeling you get when you accidentally fry a power supply … Continue reading → -
@GardnerCampbell Can’t Give Away a Bag of Gold
Straight outta Gardner Campbell’s “No More Digital Facelifts: Thinking the Unthinkable About Open Educational Experiences.” Just goofing around after a long first day of the new semester… -
An Arms Race of Awesome
At the dawn of a new semester – classes begin this morning – I find myself reading various ruminations on Gardner Campbell’s “A Personal Cyberinfrastructure.” CogDog’s Freediving for Gold, Timmyboy’s Everything is amazing, and no one is happy! Excellent thinkers, … Continue reading → -
Twitter Tools (for WP) doesn’t…
Twitter Tools (for WP) doesn’t seem to want to automatically tag my #ds106 posts, even though it appears to be configured thus. Drag. UPDATE:Â Twitter Tools has a “Tweet prefix for new blog posts,” which is by default “New blog … Continue reading → -
Bought and Sold
I like what Brad Kozlek is saying in “The Puzzle of My Own Personal Cyberinfrastructure.” I know there lots of ideas about what constitutes information competency/literacy. Here in California, the focus (at least in higher ed) seems to be on … Continue reading → -
For sale: baby shoes, never worn
Lest the subject led you to believe differently, this isn’t a spam post, but let’s consider it a bump.  I’m really feeling @CogDog’s 5cardstory site again, and I think it deserves another look, especially now that the course is rollin’. … Continue reading → -
On Being Mashed Up…
This has never happened to me before. I play music, and also make noise/experimental/sound art kinds of sounds, and I post videos on YouTube. The other day, out of the blue, I received a message from some user* I didn’t … -
He’s Too Much!
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Dance Until We Die, or Questioning One’s Own Resolve
@Timmmmyboy offered a pretty great assignment – take a photo from The Big Picture and overlay lyrics from a top 100 song. The idea came quickly, but I struggled with this one – should I post it, should I not? … Continue reading → -
Geostorytelling, or The “Where” of DS106
As mentioned to here, I’m intrigued by the digital/analog interface as it relates to ds106, and I’ve been thinking about the concept of encoding geo-awareness into digital storytelling. Let’s call it geostorytelling. Here are a couple of examples I find … Continue reading → -
Is it just me, or is the syndi…
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MST3K + Prelinger Archive = Sandwiches!
Over at Ceaseless Idleness, Hans Aagard says: So my challenge/idea for ds106 – take a prelinger archive video, an old one, and chop it up. Pick to either reinforce the old 1950?s era message because it still holds up, or … Continue reading → -
A Rallying Cry!
Young, angry-looking Mike Watt shouts: Let’s go, y’all – keep it up! Let’s make Jim Groom remember FOREVER the day he roused the MOOC titan! -
Hiding in Plain Sight…
“Five Card Stories” is a killer construct. Thanks @CogDog for setting that up. I love the various unique ways people approach the task. Here’s my first foray… Hiding in Plain Sight… I initially wrote a lot of words, and then … Continue reading → -
A Set of Steak Knives…
Al Pacino may have been nominated for the supporting actor Oscar, but the most memorable scene for me was this one, featuring a very young-looking Alec Baldwin. “Coffee’s for closers only.” -
Meatspace Distribution of DS106 Ephemera?
“i left this here for you to read” is the now defunct* brainchild of Tim Devin, a Boston-based conceptual artist and writer. The project involved the creation of a limited number of magazines, consisting of contributed works – writing, photos, … Continue reading → -
What I Learned About Animating GIFs
I’m not an expert by any means, but I learned a few things, and I thought I’d share my process, realizing that there are probably 100 ways to do this, many (most?) better than mine. I’ve worked a fair amount … Continue reading → -
Raw Material – The Prelinger Archives
So, I always get an uneasy feeling talking about something about which I think people already know, but I thought I’d mention the Prelinger Archives anyhow (just in case you don’t know). What we have here is a collection of … Continue reading → -
Reverend Jedi
Elvis was a hero to most, but he never meant shit to me. Yoda, on the other hand… Oh, and Jim Groom. -
WTF?…
…he seems to say…Fired up and inspired by the animated GIF revival – used Photoshop/Fireworks, and did a fair amount of isolating the moving character so the background remains steady. Rawk! -
Saving Private Totoro
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Hands up – Who wants to MOOC?
I do. I’m way into this. It feels disruptive and visionary. A bit of background… I’ve been following the great and powerful Jim Groom (he of Edupunk and bavatuesdays fame) for a couple of years now, initially because I was … Continue reading →
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