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Field notes for the age of generative everything.

Essays on AI, culture, community, creative practice, consent, taste, and what stays human when the tools get loud.

  • Canada.com Redesigns Without RSS Feeds

    Canada.com Redesigns Without RSS Feeds Canada.com recently launched a long-overdue redesign of their website. I’ll let you decide what you think on your own, but I find it…

  • Things I Didn’t Know Before Yesterday

    Things I Didn’t Know Before Yesterday A number of people asked me yesterday what I learned at the conference, and I had a hard time answering, not because…

  • The Dogs Part of the Equation

    The Dogs Part of the Equation So, perhaps you were wondering why this geek conference I’m at was called Blogs N Dogs? Well, wonder no longer because I’m…

  • I Feel Like the Prom King

    Robert Scales pointed out that the ‘kriskrug‘ and the ‘kk‘ tags on Flickr both made the most popular list today. *blush*

  • Greetings from Banff

    Greetings from Banff Right now in Kris Krug’s room there are 7 people, 8 computers and quite inexplicably, a double turntable with a mixer. This is going to…

  • Welcome to BlogsnDogs

    Welcome to BlogsnDogs The faculty and their guests are almost all here and Robert Scales confirms that yes, we are all geeking out. In proper journalistic form, Travis…

  • The Quest to Acheive Buzzword Compliancy

    The Quest to Acheive Buzzword Compliancy …will I really have to start referring to things like my DLA? Or my PSP? In the middle of sentences as if…

  • Testing Odeo – Blogs and Dogs, Banff

    Testing Odeo – Blogs and Dogs, Banff Just a lil test of the new Odeo Studio in browser podcasting tool built in Flash. It’s basic functionality seems simple…

  • Off to Blogs and Dogs

    Off to Blogs and Dogs Long underwear? Check (though I had to go buy it today). Toque? Check. Snobby attitude about the West Coast? Check.

  • Currently -13 F, but Real Feel is -24 F

    Currently -13 F, but Real Feel is -24 F Holy crap, it’s cold. That’s -25 / -32 Celsius for our metric friends. My narrow Californian ass is confused.…

  • 10 Web Moments That Changed the World

    From the Webby Awards via the Web of Change mailing list… 10 Web Moments That Changed the World 1. The Dotcom Boom and Bust (1995-2001) – Launched by…

  • Flickr Favourites: Why? Why? Why?

    Flickr Favourites: Why? Why? Why? What makes one person’s pictures stand apart from another or even what makes one shot of someone’s stand apart from a similar shot…

  • Remixing the Web for Social Change

    Remixing the Web for Social Change Net2 is an online and offline community created by TechSoup, a project of CompuMentor. We’ve helped nonprofits access direct assistance, web-based knowledge…

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