In doing some additional research on digital storytelling, I had to go all the way back and ask , “What is it?” DS106 has had a strong “Just do it” ethos from before the beginning. However, I’ve been a bit stuck as I tried to explain to non “initiates” just what it was all about. […]

I got the idea to reformat DS106 assignment instructions. Here are the audio assignment instructions  in alliterative verse. Listen here (Source Material) It occurs to me that I maybe should explain how this came to be.  I’m in the midst of reading Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings to my oldest child, and we got to […]

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Here’s my 5 card Flickr assignment.  Thanks to all the photographers who contributed.   http://web.nmc.org/5cardstory/show.php?id=22101

Today, Jon Udell published Seven Ways to Think Like the Web.  He offers principles for cyberpresence.  The list was nice enough, but one referred to post really caught my eye. Called “Hosted Lifebits“, the post, presents a hypothetical us...

Tim O’Reilly mentions the question of who owns the data on which Web 2.0 runs. This, written in 2005, now seems prescient. That said,  there is the undercurrent of monetization.  O’Reilly makes money off of Web 2.0 by selling books and organizing conferences and has on his radar the question of how others will seek ...

I noticed a FERPA question circulating on my twitter feed this morning. For non US readers, FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) is the US national law covering how higher education institutions must conduct themselves with regards to student records. There’s a dizzying list of rules and exceptions as to what the institution may ...

Jim told us to experiment with our cyberinfrastructure.  Since I’m still freeloading on wordpress.com (see my last post) I thought I might at least look at a new theme.  I figured the best place to start would be to look at my current theme.  When I did, I saw the attribution on the header image ...

When I first watched  Gardner Campbell‘s presentation,  I was inspired. I was ready to go forth and register a domain, and delve into Cpanel.  Then I read Brad Kozlek. For me, it’s not about ease of use.  I’ve written a basic blogging app and some other PHP/MySQL from scratch. I also have options through my ...

Unfortunately, the interesting story of the moment doesn’t lend itself to nice visuals.  Sometime last night, my furnace decided it was getting dangerously hot and shut itself off. When it cools, a switch is supposed to close and turn the furnace back on, but said switch picked the wee hours of the morning to travel ...

Tom Woodward’s remix of Gardner Campbell was great and missed epicness by the slimmest of margins.   What was missing Gyou ask?  Autotune.  Here’s how the chorus should have sounded. Gardner Campbell Tag Line

I saw two mashups recently which gave me pause about the future of the internet.  One was an alleged news story about Wikileaks which was actually a Rickroll, albeit one done in the format of a diplomatic cable. The other is the fake Amazon product review, which, it was suggested the other day, might be ...