Twitter Sez DS106 Daily Create Get Off My Lawn!

Twitter Sez DS106 Daily Create Get Off My Lawn!

by cogdog

| dailycreate, ds106, Rants, Syndicated, twitter, twitterisdumb
May 24, 2023

The Musky Dark Lord of Twitter has finally cast the fun loving, roll-in-the-grass-like-a-happy-dog DS106 Daily Create off of the tweeting lawn. This marks the end of 3811 successive never missed a single day of tweeting fun creative challenges openly and the last 2813 of them had, until today, been able to have their responses collected […]
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The Joy of Web Improbability: The Buggles on/in front of #DS106 TV

by cogdog

| ds106, nostalgia, On Sharing, Syndicated, webserendipity, Weird Web
May 22, 2023

Keep the internet weird and un-expected, not managed by machine languages and corporatized algorithms, but by the small human acts of sharing. Ok? This has happened to me countless times yet never gets old. So via Mastodon, all the way from New Zealand, my colleague Stephen Harlow thinks to share this: Indeed, in a YouTube […]
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Settling past beards

by Andrew Carle

| Culture, ds106, makers, Syndicated
May 22, 2023

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Visual Assignment Pt. 4: Summary

by @KellyPratt27125

| ds106, Summaries, Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments2152, VisualAssignments2167, VisualAssignments2815, VisualAssignments504
May 21, 2023

This week, I completed several assignments. For a quick reference, see the links below. Visual Assignment Part 1: Reflection Visual Assignment Part 2: Photo Safari Visual Assignment Part 3A: Five Frame Story Visual Assignment Part 3B: Your Favorite Photo Visual Assignment Part 3C: Mixing 2 Worlds Visual Assignment Part 3D: Draw It Visual Assignment Part […]
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Visual Assignment Pt. 3D: Draw It

by @KellyPratt27125

| Assignments, ds106, Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments504
May 21, 2023

Prompt: Take a photograph of something (If you take a picture from the internet, make sure to be nice and cite the original) and transform it through GIMP, Photoshop, etc, into a drawing. This is a 2 star prompt. Last week, I started my archaeology field school. My class of six people is working on […]
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Visual Assignment Pt. 3C: Mixing 2 Worlds

by @KellyPratt27125

| Assignments, ds106, Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments2815
May 21, 2023

Prompt: Using an editing software, edit a photo and crop to an 11×17. Then add text for the location or something fun. This is a 3 star prompt. For this assignment, I wanted to do something slightly fun. Being a lover of architecture, I decided to use this image of the Hearst Castle pool. This […]
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Visual Assignment Pt. 3B: Your Favorite Photo

by @KellyPratt27125

| Assignments, ds106, Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments2152
May 21, 2023

Prompt: It’s simple. Choose your favorite photo you’ve taken and tell everyone why you love it so much. This is a 1.5 star prompt. This is my favorite photo. Yes, it’s a photo of myself. Usually my favorite photos are nature pictures. Rarely do I have a favorite photo of myself. in fact, I don’t […]
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Visual Assignment Pt. 3A: Five Frame Story

by @KellyPratt27125

| Assignments, ds106, Syndicated, visualassignments, VisualAssignments2167
May 21, 2023

Prompt: Tell a story using five photos. Basically, that’s it. Figure out the story you want to tell and then take five photos to tell it. If you need to edit, add filters, etc. in order to get the effect you want, go for it. This is a 3.5 star prompt. I chose a different […]
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Visual Assignment Pt. 2: Photo Safari

by @KellyPratt27125

| Assignments, ds106, Syndicated, Thoughts & Ideas
May 21, 2023

I decided to do the photo safari at my house. It seemed to be the easiest place to manipulate items and get the desired photos. Additionally, I thought it might show more about me. This wasn’t exactly the case. My home, while full or random stuff, has very poor lighting. Even with bright lights on, […]
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Everything Is the Same as It Ever Was

by paul bond

| #AudioAssignments, AudioAssignments2478, David Lee Roth, ds106, Mashup, Syndicated, talking heads
May 21, 2023

I’ve always wanted to do the David Lee Roth audio remix assignment but never came up with a good use for it. Maybe I still haven’t, but I made this thing: The other day I saw a tweet from Open … Continue reading ?
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Visual Assignment Pt. 1

by @KellyPratt27125

| Assignments, ds106, Syndicated, Thoughts & Ideas
May 20, 2023

The information about taking pictures was interesting. Having taken multiple architecture research classes, I’ve already taken part in several lessons about taking photos using a camera. Most of the information presented in my digital studies course reiterated what I already knew. One suggestion that I would like to consider for future photos is to take […]
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Introducing KP

by @KellyPratt27125

| Assignments, ds106, Syndicated
May 17, 2023

This is my first blog post for the Digital Storytelling class at my school, the University of Mary Washington. Below is a brief introductory sound clip about me. I hope you enjoy it. In addition to being a student, I am an avid lover of fur babies. I have a pet ferret named Bandit. She […]
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Fourth Month of Daily Doubles: The April Slide

by cogdog

| dailycreate, dailyphoto, ds106, flickr, On Sharing, photography, Syndicated
May 17, 2023

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 […]
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Moving Mastodon Object Storage from AWS S3 to DigitalOcean Spaces

by Reverend

| AWS, Digital Ocean, DigitalOcean, ds106, Mastodon, rclone, s3, s3cmd, Spaces, Syndicated, sysadmin
April 26, 2023

These days I’ve been in a Mastodon maintenance state-of-mind, as my last post highlights. Early this week I tried to shore up some security issues linked with listing files publicly in our AWS S3 bucket. This encouraged me to explore … Continue reading ?
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Record Store Day’s big score

by paul bond

| cinderella, ds106, shaft, Syndicated
April 23, 2023

There was some impromptu vinylcasting on ds106radio yesterday, ending up with Jim playing Sonic Youth’s Goo album. One of the songs was Cinderella’s Big Score. The title echoes the Shaft sequel, so it was just asking for the ds106 mashup … Continue reading ?
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Third Month of Double Dailies

by cogdog

| dailycreate, ds106, photography, Syndicated
April 1, 2023

Not that anyone is keeping score… well I am! For 2023 my double daily habits, the DS106 Daily Create and my Daily Flickr Photo routine have notched another perfect month, bringing both to 90 completions at the end of March, the 90th day of the year. This follows my streaks for both January and Feburary. Can this blistering […]
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Humanery and/or Machinery

by cogdog

| AI, art, artificial intelligence, dailycreate, ds106, Random Musing, Rants, Syndicated
March 20, 2023

Despite the apparent demise of blogs the flat line of the RSS-ograph blips with a pulse from David Kernohan “on chatbots.” FOTA is alive! Unsure if my comment gets through the gate (a first one generated a critical WordPress error, sorry, David), but I have to at least assert my assertion, as if it blips […]
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OEWeek Eventness (or Madness)? 12+2+2 Unscripted Conversations

by cogdog

| ds106, Ideas, OE Global, Syndicated
March 13, 2023

How often do we get to participate in small group open discussions of our practices? I am not talking about blipping in social media. Last, I chose to to be organize/be in 18 of them, and energized more energetic than any zoom webinar. That week was full on for my organization, Open Education Global with […]
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Double Down on Daily Double in February

by cogdog

| dailycreate, ds106, photography, Syndicated
March 1, 2023

The daily habit is on for a two month streak! Picking up in the January pace of batting 1000 for the DS106 Daily Create and my Daily Flickr Photo habit, by the 59th day of the year being 59/59 in both. As the kid asks… Daily Flickr Photos A bit of… Not quite the Ghostbusters […]
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Fetching Stuff from Mastodon (simplest brute force approach)

by cogdog

| coding, dailycreate, ds106, Mastodon, Syndicated
February 21, 2023

The clock is ticking for me to modify the WordPress theme that powers the DS106 Daily Create given that the slippery slope timeline for free, unfettered access to the Twitter API will sooner? later? tomorrow? hit the bottom. Just to be clear, nothing here stop the DS106 Daily Create site from publishing it’s 4050+ day […]
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That Toddling TDC

by paul bond

| Chicago, dailycreate, ds106, Syndicated, tdc4056
February 20, 2023

For today’s Daily Create, I pushed play and got Chicago (That Toddling Town) It has quite a history for a song I never even heard of. There’s even a James Brown version: which sounds entirely different. I also located sheet … Continue reading ?
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Educate Ion

by Downes

| #tdc4050, dailycreate, ds106, education, Syndicated
February 14, 2023

@tdc #dailycreate #tdc4050 #ds106 #education The word 'education' with the letter 'e' inserted in electric blue to create the phrase 'educate ion', the white text superimposed over an image of neurons and synapses in lovely deep green, red ...
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Daily Double January 2023

by cogdog

| dailycreate, dailyphoto, ds106, photography, Syndicated
February 1, 2023

With grand intentions to stick to a schedule of daily challenges, by skin of my calendar teeth I am 31 for 31 days in both daily flickr photos and ds106 Daily Creates. I’ve held this pace before maybe 2 months? Does it really matter to get a perfect score (no)? But parsing some time to […]
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ETMOOC 10 Years Later: Ten wonderful things ETMOOC has done for me

by karenatsharon

| #learning, #olcmooc, #rhizo14, #tvsz, Alan Levine, Alec Couros, CLMOOC, Dave Cormier, ds106, ds106 daily create, etmooc, Janine DeBaise, Jesse Stommel, Jim Groom, Pete Rorabaugh, Rhonda Jensen, Syndicated
January 28, 2023

Hard to believe it has been 10 years since I first started ETMOOC.Why after all this time do I still engage with this community and with the people I met along the way? Because ETMOOC was the beginning of giving me a space to learn and grow,...
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Some Initial Mastodon Instance Tweaking

by Reverend

| digital storytelling, ds106, ds106social, Mastodon, server, Syndicated, sysadmin
November 25, 2022

Now that I have a few instances of Mastodon running in Reclaim Cloud, I figured it was time to start optimizing them for resource usage, storage, and security. This post is an attempt to capture what I’ve done thus far—which … Continue reading ?
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Trollin’, trollin’, trollin’

by paul bond

| airplane, cormac mccarthy, ds106, Syndicated, the passenger
November 10, 2022

Who’s trolling who? I was reading more of The Passenger this morning, and on page 195 one of the hallucinatory ‘horts spouted the classic line from Airplane. So you know what I had to do. The face swap doesn’t quite … Continue reading ?
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“Paradise is exactly like where you are right now”

by paul bond

| book club, cormac mccarthy, ds106, Syndicated, the passenger, visualassignments, VisualAssignments24
November 6, 2022

I thought of this song when I was reading The Kekulé Problem the other day. In it, McCarthy recalls, I suggested once in conversation at the Santa Fe Institute that language had acted very much like a parasitic invasion and … Continue reading ?
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The Good, Bad, and Ugly Get a #ds106 Walk of Life

by cogdog

| #4life, connectedness, ds106, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments2810
October 15, 2022

Yikes, I had to dig deep in the archives to find the last time I did a DS106 Assignment. I would like to think there is one in there about making an excuse for not doing them. Well there was one in 2020 when I made a DS106 Assignment for NetNarr, then the assignment timeline […]
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Keep on walking

by paul bond

| ds106, Syndicated, walk of life
October 14, 2022

So I made a few more Walk of Life edits: That worked nicely, I think. It almost seems appropriate, so I figured I should try a different track: That’s probably longer than it needs to be, or maybe it just … Continue reading ?
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The Notorious W.O.L.

by paul bond

| ds106, Syndicated, VideoAssignments, VideoAssignments2810, walk of life
October 13, 2022

Yesterday a conversation popped up in my Twitter stream You’ve undoubtedly come across this, but just in case https://t.co/oJfgdLiUqh — Martin Weller (@mweller) October 12, 2022 which introduced me to the Walk of Life Project. The hypothesis stated on the … Continue reading ?
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