Here’s a brief video I put together based on the week 15 prompts. It references the AI rap battle video from a few weeks back, Dr. Oblivion off his meds, and our visit from our friends at Aggressive Technologies. There’s … Continue reading ?
It is always my great pleasure to announce the successes of students from our program at Texas State. The east coast is gaining more of our own. This week, Ashley Goode announced that she accepted a position on the marketing team of Gensler, a global architecture firm. She’ll be moving to their NYC office at Rockefeller […]
It’s hard to believe that we are already talking about SXSW, but time to get on it. Panels were proposed in the summer and have been on review for community voting for the past few weeks. Perusing the PanelPicker is always a great way to gain a sense of current and important topics and a […]
The other week one AI said that the internet was like “diving into a vast digital ocean where you can swim with majestic whales of knowledge or get caught in the undertow of clickbait and cat memes” and I asked … Continue reading ?
I thought I’d bring together a few of the class projects. Some interesting things are going on. Mysteries abound. Dr. Oblivion has some competition: https://cat-on-a-moped.com/uncategorized/final-video/ This was unexpected. Is Aggressive Technologies behind this? Is it connected to their lawyer’s threats? … Continue reading ?
For today’s Daily Create, we were to build on the classic “On the internet nobody knows you’re a dog” cartoon. I wondered how Dr. Oblivion would respond to the query: Then, in my infinite laziness curiosity, I asked the same … Continue reading ?
For yesterday’s Daily Create we were to make blackout poetry with content from a certain web site. I looked at it briefly and decided to use the Weird Old Book Finder instead, probably because I found the typography uninspiring. I … Continue reading ?
This morning’s prompt at DS106 Daily Create had to do with using an old Public Domain image of a bunch of men standing on the deck of an old, tilting house, and to imagine them as a band releasing a song. I used Canva to design their “single” track, which I called Living In A […]Ooops! Someone forgot to hit the Publish button. Jim and I have periodic conversations about what we’re doing and where we’re going in de106. I had this idea that the chief legal counsel from Aggressive Technologies would drop in and … Continue reading ?
After reflecting on our visit from Aggressive Technologies legal counsel, I had an inspiration for a new ds106radio commercial: I thought the tone of her spiel would pair well with our friend Bob, so I had him do the intro … Continue reading ?
We had our first night of ds106radio broadcasts last night, with a possible record crowd. At one point the ds106radio page said we had 23 listeners, although some may have been ghosts and doubles. They were treated to Isaiah Beacon’s … Continue reading ?