EPIC 2014 is a fantastic future documentary showing the convergence on online media into a single personalized, customized media source/filter. Much is currently written about the dangers of an overly centralized and privately controlled media, but what would happen if our media became overly decentralized and publicly created. The name of the fictional Googlezon customer [...]
Archive for November, 2004
Ten Most Wanted Design Bugs
2004/11/29Ten Most Wanted Design Bugs::Via Slashdot, a list of 7 bugs (apparently the list itself is a bit of a prototype) in computer design from fabled Mac UI designer Bruce Tognazzini. My favourite pet peeve that made the list is the Apple Dock found in OS X – the Gnome panel is so much easier [...]
WordPress Planet
2004/11/28I stumbled across a great resource for WordPress users while checking through my referrer logs. If you are using WordPress as a blogging tool, WordPress Planet offers lots of tweaks, hacks and WordPressy goodness!
Adding enclosures to WordPress
2004/11/25After successfully recording, uploading, and linking to the inaugural podcast, I have added the enclosure mod to WordPress. If you are subscribing to this blog through an RSS reader like bloglines, this revision may have caused my last 10 posts to show up in your feed reader again. Sorry about that, but in exchange for [...]
Podcast #1
2004/11/23As Adam Curry would say … Boi-oi-oing!!. Time for me to hop on the podcast bandwagon. Here’s podcast #1. Show notes Opening Music – Things to do When You’re Alone by 46 Ounces Alec Couros blogging presentation. Alec blogs at http://www.educationaltechnology.ca/couros Fostering Critical Thinking in an Online Environment Communities of Inquiry website Nine Myths About [...]
Saskatoon ID conference
2004/11/19I spent the day at an ID conference in Saskatoon. It was a great time – I reconnected with many friends, and the sessions got a few lobes of my brain that had been dormant fired up again. I have entered my notes for a couple of the sessions for posterity.
Fostering Critical Thinking in an Online Environment
2004/11/19Here are my notes from Walter Archer’s session at the Saskatoon ID conference. This is basically just a notes dump, without bothering to pretty it up (lack of wireless access at the conference forced me to do notes in a text editor instead of straight blogging) See http://www.communitiesofinquiry.com for paper’s that he refers to. Walter’s [...]
Alec Couros on weblogs in education
2004/11/19Alec Couros at ID conference Originally uploaded by omegageek. It was great to see Alec again, and a true treat to hear him talking about using Weblogs for educational purposes (Link is to Alec’s powerpoint for the session). Here’s my summary. Alec talked about what a blog is (a reverse chronological listing of posts). Many [...]
Have a Ball
2004/11/19Have a Ball #2 Originally uploaded by omegageek. Rick Schwier brought me back a Cubs baseball from Chicago, probably to help me get over the sorrow of not getting to AECT in Chicago. Thanks buddy!
Cubs baseball
2004/11/19Cubs baseball Originally uploaded by omegageek. The cubs baseball that Rick brought back for me from Chicago! Oh yeah, next year is the year!!
