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January Snow
Went back to Vuvox to remind myself how it worked and found the Vuvox Express. Fun and fast!
Year End/ Decade End Listings and such…
I am a big fan (sucker?) for the end of the year summaries that abound at this time of year.
And, I love lists. So, here is a list of lists….
Presenting my faves for the end of 2009 and the end of the first decade of the 2000s (naughties? noughties? oughts? aughts? What did we call them?)
DJ Earworm – United States of Pop 2009
NPR All Songs Considered Best Music of 2009
I always find new music via NPR’s All Songs Considered
Lifehacker’s Most Popular Hive Five Topics of 2009
Crowdsourcing has grown in popularity, easy and usefulness. And why not? It usually works!
Entertainment Weekly’s Best of 2009 (highs and lows)
Since this is my guilty pleasure reading at the gym, I felt that I must put it in here
The Top 10 Everything of 2009 and the Best Movies, TV, Books and Theater of the Decade from Time Magazine
well, they said everything…
Top 10 Internet Moments of the Decade from ABC News
And, for good measure, I just had to use the “My Year in Status” application in Facebook to build a status collage for 2009.
I also had to go visit Wordle and do something there with my blog posts from 2009. And, here it is.
NPR crowdsourcing the choice
I am curious to see how it turns out as National Public Radio launches their year long exploration next year of the 50 greatest voices in recorded history. Their voting site is really slick as you pick your top five, give your reasons why and join in the fun.
Crowdsourcing..its the way of the future.
50 Great Voices: Help Us Choose : NPR
And, on the day that I did my voting, here is the way the cookie crumbled:
This is my generation of movies
Feel like I have been saying goodbye to a good part of my childhood/young adulthood lately.
RIP – John Hughes.
Worldwide Photowalk – 30,000 folks taking pictures all over the place
Just back from the downtown event that was part of the Worldwide Photowalk. Over 900 cities hosted their own event where photo-oriented folks gathered together to walk around and take pictures of what they saw. Reminded me of my Project365 days. So, about 25 of so of us tromped around the Old City, downtown, Market Square (home of a very popular and vibrant Famers’ Market) and other places such as that capturing images of what makes our local area unique.
Just knowing folks around the world are doing the same feels really cool. Once again, through the power of social media and networking, we are able to share both in the experience itself and then what we felt about it after it is over.
Thanks to the organizers for creating the event!
Here is the slideshow of my photos:
Wordle – Beautiful way to share tags
A colleague reminded me of Wordle. I truly find it beautiful. Both in the elegance that the Java app works (cannot say that about all java apps!) and in the actual creation of the tool. So, without further ado, here is my Wordle based on current tags in my delicious account!
A Magic Number – Schoolhouse Rock
I was at an ed tech conference this past week. At lunch, they had “edutainment” speakers, which is a great idea since everybody is usually eating and so on so a “serious” speaker is often not the best idea.
The speakers were the producers and original composers of Schoolhouse Rock. When they took the stage, I was happy. When, they started singing some of the old tunes, well, I suddenly was shot back to Saturday morning sitting in my pajamas, eating Capt’n Crunch and watching some Sid and Marty Krofft show (probably Land of the Lost) as well as learning about multiplication tables, the parts of speech and how the government works.
I mean, I can totally still recite the Preamble to the United State Constitution but only if I can sing it to the Schoolhouse Rock tune!
I then returned to school and started sharing my excitement with other colleagues. They didn’t know the show!! Never heard of Schoolhouse Rock. That struck me as pretty odd but I guess there is just a small segment of the population who was at the “right” age for this to become as ingrained as it is for my and my siblings.
Oh well, I totally loved it. Enjoy the original song from that series.
Schoolhouse Rock – Three is a Magic Number
Creative Commons For the Win!!!
One of my CC licensed photos in Flickr was used in local blog posting. Feels mighty good to see all that good old social media mojo working.
Knoxify – The insider’s take on what makes Knoxville great
Famous Photos “ruined” by technology
From Gizmodo, check out this gallery of Photoshop brilliance mixing famous news photography with current technology.
Gizmodo – 86 Iconic Images Ruined With Technology – Photoshop
