Published November 30th, 2006
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This link comes from the inimitable Andy Rush, who has posted a whole series of additional links to cool videos that play upon this theme as well as providing a context! Be sure to check it out. Thanks Andy.
Published November 24th, 2006
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As a great post by Bryan Alexander recently pointed out -how can you trace links to your site from others within BlackBoard so that the conversation can continue?
Answer: You can’t, silly rabbit!
After reading Bryan’s post, I tried a similar experiment with the same results, at least three links from various BlackBoard accounts [...]
Published November 22nd, 2006
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If you haven’t yet, but I know you have, read Brian Lamb’s fantastic treatise on the nature of power RIGHT NOW! This may very well be the funniest thing that I have read in a long time. Link.
Published November 22nd, 2006
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A cheap shot, I know, but I just couldn’t resist, [[candy cigarettes]] are still on the shelves! Well, I bet there’s not “a cough in a carload!” This is even more striking to me after being in Canada for six days where every pack of cigarettes has a huge skull and cross-bones stating, quite candidly, [...]
Published November 22nd, 2006
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During the New Web seminar at the University of Victoria, Jim Spadacinni talked a bit about the potential for museums to colonize popular social sites for both exposure and networking. Logic being, regardless of how much one may hate how a site like MySpace looks and feels -why not go where everybody is?
This [...]
Published November 20th, 2006
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I loved this image so much I had to blog about it. The Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Center at Baruch College is kicking it old new school. Click on the link for more details about the conference. Link.
Published November 17th, 2006
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A very fun application I have found myself using often over the last couple of days is Stumble Upon. The premise is pretty simple, join up for free, click a few categories you are interested in, and download a toolbar for your browser. After that, anytime you want to be taken to [...]
Published November 16th, 2006
in WordPress.
The New Web seminar at UVIC hosted another fascinating discussion today about integrating web 2.0 tools into the museum landscape with Seb Chan from the Powerhouse Museum (see this post for the highlights of our discussion with Kevin von Appen about the Ontario Science Center’s RedShift Now). The Powerhouse Museum is a Science [...]
Published November 15th, 2006
in WordPress and video.
I have so much to blog about these days that I am a bit overwhelmed. After my mini-vacation in Portland, Oregon I headed up to the land of Northern Voices to attend a seminar dealing with “The New Web: Interactive and Collaborative Technologies for the Museum World” with Jim Spadacinni of Ideum fame. I have [...]
Published November 13th, 2006
in video games.
I have been in Portland, Oregon for three full days now, and I have to say the city is pretty happening, if not a little hip for an aging hipster like myself. My own struggle with identity aside, hip has its definite benefits, one of which I discovered last night with my friends [...]
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