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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Weāre Chained to the World, and We All Gotta Pullā¦
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 Canāt Give Away a Bag of Gold
Straight outta Gardner Campbellās āNo More Digital Facelifts: Thinking the Unthinkable About Open Educational Experiences.ā 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 Campbellās āA Personal Cyberinfrastructure.ā CogDog’s Freediving for Gold, Timmyboy’s Everything is amazing, and no one is happy! Excellent thinkers, … Continue reading → -
Twitter Tools (for WP) doesnātā¦
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:Ā 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.”Ā I know there lots of ideas about what constitutes information competency/literacy.Ā 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.Ā Ā I’m really feeling @CogDog’s 5cardstory site again, and I think it deserves another look, especially now that the course is rollin’.Ā … Continue reading → -
On Being Mashed Upā¦
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.Ā The other day, out of the blue, I received a message from some user* I didn’t … -
Heās Too Much!
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Dance Until We Die, or Questioning Oneās 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?Ā … Continue reading → -
Geostorytelling, or The āWhereā 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.Ā Let’s call it geostorytelling.Ā Here are a couple of examples I find … Continue reading → -
Is it just me, or is the syndiā¦
Is it just me, or is the syndication on http://ds106.us really slow? #ds106 -
MST3K + Prelinger Archive = Sandwiches!
Over at Ceaseless Idleness, Hans Aagard says: So my challenge/idea for ds106 ā 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:Ā Let’s go, y’all – keep it up!Ā Let’s make Jim Groom remember FOREVER the day he roused the MOOC titan! -
Hiding in Plain Sightā¦
“Five Card Stories” is a killer construct.Ā Thanks @CogDog for setting that up.Ā I love the various unique ways people approach the task.Ā Here’s my first foray…Ā Hiding in Plain Sight…Ā I initially wrote a lot of words, and then … Continue reading → -
A Set of Steak Knivesā¦
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.Ā 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.Ā I’ve worked a fair amount … Continue reading → -
Raw Material ā 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).Ā 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.Ā Yoda, on the other hand…Ā Oh, and Jim Groom. -
WTF?ā¦
…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.Ā Rawk! -
Saving Private Totoro
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Hands up ā Who wants to MOOC?
I do.Ā I’m way into this.Ā It feels disruptive and visionary. A bit of background…Ā 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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