http://www.cocomment.com/comments/cogdog Copyright 2007 coComment.com 2009-11-23T23:00:26.377+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/images/logo4rss.gif http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=cogdog&conv=2405922&comment_id=57121286 Alan Levine Whew! I made the list! 2009-02-10T21:14:05.642+01:00 2009-02-10T21:14:05.642+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=cogdog&conv=2405089&comment_id=56967143 Alan Levine Glad to see you on board with the group this year and opening up the mindful seeing concept. I find it more like the world is speaking all the time photographic opportunities and all we need to do is open up some different senses to pick up on it. As D'Arcy suggests it is an extremely active act. I like the part where you describe your family taking part in the decision making, that is wonderful. Keep on clicking, and remember, no one is graded on this assignment! 2009-02-10T05:50:51.541+01:00 2009-02-10T05:50:51.541+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=cogdog&conv=1776079&comment_id=56758602 Alan Levine One more try as it seems that although I see the cocomment bar below, my comments are not going to my conversations. Sigh.sigh sigh 2009-02-09T07:49:04.169+01:00 2009-02-09T07:49:04.169+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=cogdog&conv=1776079&comment_id=56758184 Alan Levine wow, you get a lot of comments! 2009-02-09T07:46:23.135+01:00 2009-02-09T07:46:23.135+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=cogdog&conv=1248879&comment_id=24130254 Alan Levine (putting on his used-car salesman plaid sportscoat... do you have cheesy car salespeople in Perth?) "Have I got a comment deal for you! A low mileage beauty... Actually I am not going to try and sell you. I don't try to promote a notion that one web tool is absolutely "better" among a moving pack of others. To me it sets up a false notion that people can think they can choose one and stop looking at others. So I try things, and like you do so well, actually much better than me, is to share your experiences. But I am not going to tell anyone that CoComment is absolutely better then co.mment or comma-mint or com.memt.ic.ous (I made those up). With all that pre-amble, this is one of the lazy cases where I use the first one I tried. I'd say what works for me about CoComment is that it is automatic, it will track any blog comment I make as it is added on to my Firefox browser and attaches itself to comment fields. From what I read in your post, Co.mment requires that you remember to click a bookmark tool to register it in your stream, which I know is not much, but I know I would forget a lot. Other than this yearly trek of not blogging a week, I never use the CoComment site or its community tools, and in fact, looking at the RSS features of Co.mment, i think you may have sold me ;-) 2008-02-14T16:44:09.522+01:00 2008-02-14T16:44:09.522+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=cogdog&conv=1234951&comment_id=23950874 Alan Levine I have no answer, buy my gut says, "A lot" mainly because most faculty are coming from a habit set of showing videos in a classroom where pretty much fair use gives them a lot of latitude, so there's not much culture or history with thinking about sharable content and its implications. Much depends on the context- is the use of copyrighted stuff use to represent a concept that could just as well be represented with cc licensed content or original content? Or is it the only way to express something (e.g. historical footage or using pop culture movies as the topic). I'm of the mindset there ought to be multiple ways to express a message, that nothing could hinge on a single piece of media (unless that it the tpic itself). I'm picking up on the irony you describe- that this prof is expending maybe 3 times the effort to publish and lock something down then if he were to "let if flow". What may be missing for many is that spark when someone else finds and reuses your content; and that in itself, can be nicely viral as a motivation to share more. 2008-02-07T22:36:46.298+01:00 2008-02-07T22:36:46.298+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=cogdog&conv=1234107&comment_id=23942552 Alan Levine Was that a subliminal message, Sue? http://flickr.com/photos/cogdog/2248771564/ Flauntr has tons of features, thanks, but was super wonky, and spawns all kinds of popups. I was unable to save image in Firefox. cheers! I should have grabbed a squirrel photo for you 2008-02-07T15:48:19.748+01:00 2008-02-07T15:48:19.748+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=cogdog&conv=1227431&comment_id=23814892 Alan Levine Just wait until you end up with about 5, 10 blogs ;-) Hey, you get to make the rules. When I am in multi blog authoring mode, I totally avoid the temptation to copy/paste an entry from one to the other. I guess you can cross link and comment, but as others said, splitting the focus makes sense. But I can vouch that two halves of a blog will add up to about 150% of the time it takes to write ;-) 2008-02-04T15:32:48.036+01:00 2008-02-04T15:32:48.036+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=cogdog&conv=1188730&comment_id=23771946 Alan Levine Hi Sue- a late congratulations for you becoming THE Edublogger and I can see you are bringing great tips and how tos to the community in typical Sue Waters quality. Just in fun, I'm looking at how the URl mushes words together and what it might mean if "theedublogger" is read as "Thee Dub Logger" or "Theed Ub Logger" or "The Ed Ublogger" ;-) Blog on, my friend in Perth! 2008-02-03T16:19:28.491+01:00 2008-02-03T16:19:28.491+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=cogdog&conv=1224767&comment_id=23764094 Alan Levine Peter scooped me! I read they are working on a new initiative for FLickrBob. I dont use Yahoo much beyond the two services it bought But agree, it is certainly no time to worry about the flickr sky falling. Has anyone noticed how irrelevant MS has become? They are flailing, only cause they have a warehouse fool of booty can they coast through their slow decline. Sync your Zune to Vista and set sale? 2008-02-03T07:40:59.967+01:00 2008-02-03T07:40:59.967+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=cogdog&conv=840417&comment_id=16374051 Alan Masterful... I can only being to imagine a range of reactions from an un-suspecting audience. Now where did I out those blasting caps? 2007-06-27T21:03:59.459+02:00 2007-06-27T21:03:59.459+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=cogdog&conv=826177&comment_id=16102775 Alan I'm just ready to start playing with Aperture with the free copy we got at the NMC Conference... so this is all good to know. I thought there was some way to store your projects on an external. which might allows the movement between machines though it requires lugging a drive. Just need some time to plunge in, but your series of comparison photos have been highly compelling! 2007-06-22T22:19:31.882+02:00 2007-06-22T22:19:31.882+02:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=cogdog&conv=505080&comment_id=9241161 Alan As an owner of more than a handful of WP sites, I rely solely on Spam Karma 2 (http://unknowngenius.com/blog/wordpress/spam-karma/) which may be more aggressive than Askiment, but has rarely let me down. I think there is even a plugin to make the work together. My own howling at the moon is that Google's page rank provides a financial incentive for blog spammers, putting a burden of spam filtering on individual blog owners, some of whom resign to shutting off comment features. How is that fit with "do no evil"? 2007-02-25T16:55:45.419+01:00 2007-02-25T16:55:45.419+01:00 http://www.cocomment.com/sidebar?object=people&context=explore&mode=detail&id=cogdog&conv=493463&comment_id=8967092 (nobody) At least you outlined a bold vision without resorting to decimal place versioning notation. I for one would be excited to even have portions of this come to be in the hear term. A number of my initial thoughts are already commented above... A barrier will continue to be the conundrum of what is/will be a more technologically complex environment (both under the hood and for its users) will run up against ease of use for the newbie. From e-mail to a visual hypertext environment was a step reached easily now after 14 years, but the step up to a 3D navigable space is a much larger one. And much of the drive for the 2d web was that it offered things, resources, services not available directly by other means. Does a 3D world do that? And the issues of audience comes up... how would a 3D world be the destination for Big Numbers of Ordinary People? I think Clay Shirkey's recent rounds provided some thoughtful meat for the differences between game-driven 3D spaces versus social driven ones like SL, that they cannot be easily put into the same bin. I'm not a gamer and have little desire to spend my time raiding and killing warthogs. The standardization of protocols seems a necessary, the "common protocol" a worthy goal yet much more complex than HTTP. And Third Life is taking a divergent path from the web, it will take some reeling in form the privates to a shared foundation. The features you describe would need a massive amount of common platform, yet not so much that it makes them lose their unique appeals. As is now, the connections from web space content to and from SL is very inconvenient. Oh we can slap a video on a prim, attach an audio stream to a place, and others have advanced ways to bring RSS content in, to conduct blog posts out via XMLRPC... but it is a rather large amount of tech savvy to get these to work, and getting over some small straws of amounts of HTTP communication one can do. The content flows need to be much broader, easier in both directions. So I am excited by this vision, and am one who dabbles there, but remain skeptical yet on it occupying as much of the public space as the web. I don't see that same thrill of quick creation, connection using something as simple as a tex editor as I did in 1993. Things are closer now to this than ever before, but the leap seems far. And as a colleague mentioned today to my canine avatar in SL, in comparison to the old wag about no one knowing you are a dog on the internet, "in Second Life, everyone can think you are a dog". 2007-02-20T22:11:52.396+01:00 2007-02-20T22:11:52.396+01:00