Year
2010 in review
391 posts across 12 months.
December 2010
33 posts- Question 365 of 365: What is enough?My year hasn’t been about numbers. It has been about ideas. And thoughts. And change. The curving mark that punctuated each day and made it…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 364 of 365: Why should we treasure the penultimate?Quite often we do not know when we are about to experience the last of something. The last day on the job comes as a surprise sometimes. The last…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 363 of 365: Why do we need prerequisites?We used to fold our clothes on the dining room table. Once about four loads of clean laundry sat in their baskets for four days or more, I would…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 362 of 365: Can we research our way out of our problems?I have never understood card catalog systems. Every time that I look at the series of numbers and letters in front of me on the cute little slip…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 361 of 365: How should we set the table?I have never know where the fork and knife are supposed to go. I have been told this information many times but I have never known it. I have…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 360 of 365: Is audience a moving target?My girlfriend would read my poetry in high school. I would write it for her in study hall and then show it to her during lunch. It was the quick…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 359 of 365: Should we believe in Santa?Image by Getty Images via @daylife I didn’t know Santa growing up, or more accurately, I didn’t know him the way that other kids my age did. They…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 358 of 365: When should we eat the glue?Image by OblioZen via Flickr We secretly all want to eat glue. We wall wonder what exactly it will taste like and just how it will react in our…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 357 of 365: What happens when you go back to the beginning?I went back to the places I grew up and played music for a friend of mine. I played the best songs that I knew with the new chords that I had just…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 356 of 365: When should you shut up and just watch?When what you are watching is more beautiful, dramatic and filled with purpose than your actions would be at this very moment. When the words…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 355 of 365: Who do you think you are?Usually I know what to expect when I head into a meeting. Usually I can see what is coming and figure out any problems that are in the offing. I…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 354 of 365: Are we fire starters?It used to be that you couldn’t map an idea, that you couldn’t plot its trajectory. It used to be that you couldn’t identify the connectors and…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 353 of 365: Who surprises someone with a car?Every holiday season, I am flabbergasted by the number of commercials that involve surprising a loved one with a car. They put bows on them,…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 352 of 365: What is a preview worth?I am the type of person that likes getting to a movie at least thirty minutes before it is scheduled to start. I do this in order to make…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 351 of 365: Should we ask for database access?Databases are magic. The front end of every website that you go to is based upon a layer of databases working hard in the background. Each…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 350 of 365: What happens when your savings is gone?I have been saving everything for years. I have been cataloguing the world around me and saving it for later. I have been tagging it with what…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 349 of 365: When should we exercise?I feel like I am wearing a fleshy overcoat. My belly that has never been a problem for me is now hanging uncomfortably over my belt. I see myself…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 348 of 365: Should we keep secret recipes?For some an inheritance of recipes is the most tangible transfer of knowledge from one generation to another. These are the recipes that are…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 347 of 365: When should more than one person talk at a time?Conference calls are nightmares. The bond between caller and callee is totally broken when everyone dials in to a third party. In reality, it is…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 346 of 365: When should you hear someone coming?Image via Wikipedia My entire family has booming footsteps. The first time that my wife stayed over at my parents house during the holidays, she…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 345 of 365: When should we Veg?When we have impending due dates that seem to be getting closer and closer. When we have dozens of unwatched television shows on the DVR. When…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 344 of 365: Are we ripping the right information?Image via Wikipedia A DVD was supposed to be one of the most encrypted physical media types to ever be created. It was supposed to have been the…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 343 of 365: What can we learn from Carmen Sandiego?We learn just how disposable magazines are. We learn that networking knows no bounds and people will find even the loosest connections in order to…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- SOITA 2010All of these sessions are Conversations, not presentations. Our group code on http://edmodo.com is 9999rl Post questions, ideas, responses and…
- Question 342 of 365: Will we figure it out when we get there?A lot of things are done for me. Other people give me soda on an airplane. Entire institutions hold onto my money until I need it. Lighted objects…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 341 of 365: What are our values of community?A community consists of trust and shared vision. In order to cultivate trust within the community, we must establish the following: The primary…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 340 of 365: Do we hate paper?The yin: I can now print from my iPhone. The yang: Google Books is ready to serve up more free ebooks than I could ever hope to read in my…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 339 of 365: What is a tick flicker?The shorter version of a flea flicker. It really only makes sense if you are watching football with your wife who has been sick for a full week.…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 338 of 365: What becomes a tradition?When working in a middle school that only serves 7th and 8th graders you can do something once and it is launched as a tradition. When the 7th…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 337 of 365: What should you do when you accidentally shave off the mustache you were growing for charity?Purchase a ridiculous fake mustache and wear it as penance.365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 336 of 365: What are we without deadlines?The space between the statement of the task and the completion of that task is infinite. It is the one place where all of our fear and…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 335 of 365: Will the future be double spaced?I used to write research papers in a single evening. I would slog on through 20 pages, even if it meant pulling an all-nighter. To me, it wasn’t a…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 334 of 365: Should we buy comfortable couches?Image via Wikipedia We currently own the most comfortable couch that I can ever hope to have. While not immediately plush and inviting, it is the…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
November 2010
30 posts- Question 333 of 365: When should we make buttons?As I sat in my grandmother’s dining room table, I knew that there was something very different about the evening’s events. There wasn’t going to…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 332 of 365: Why do we need apples to apples comparison?Everything changes and it isn’t a hyperbole to say so. My experience of the mall in the days up to Christmas has been roughly similar, but the…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 331 of 365: When should we delete our accounts?My wife just got rid of her Facebook account. She had been threatening to do it for the last year or so. She claims that she was not using it for…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 330 of 365: when does it take a village?I love when other people parent my children well. I’m glad when my brother feels empowered enough to put my son in timeout. I’m glad when family…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 329 of 365: What constitutes a full house?One younger brother, one older brother, two sisters-in-law, one family friend, one family of friends (two adults and three children),and one…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 328 of 365: What are the Frequently Asked Questions?I was recently tasked with cobbling together a list of frequently asked questions. I was supposed to answer them and to put both question and…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 327 of 365: What does it feel like to get things done?It feels like nothing else. Like pursuing a truth for so long and finding your every move validated. It feels like seeing the lifetime of your…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 326 of 365: Why should we drink out of a lowball glass?Image by yoppy via Flickr My wife got me four beautiful lowball (Old Fashioned) glasses yesterday. They have spiral lines and large circle…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 325 of 365: What is our stealth bomber?Image via Wikipedia Fruit snacks are one of the most incredible treats to a child. The molded gelatinous fruit juice in the shapes of favorite…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 324 of 365: Why should I shake your hand?Image via Wikipedia I don’t know that I will ever get very good at shaking hands. Try as I might, I seem to foul it up somewhere along the way.…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 323 of 365: How do you grow a mustache?Image via Wikipedia My father had a fantastic beard when I was born. He kept it for years, always handsomely groomed. I remember its scratchy…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 322 of 365: Why should we blarb?I used to walk a mile and a half each night with my wife no matter what the weather. We were like the postal service. We would bundle up and just…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 321 of 365: What is the sand in our mouths?Image by dionhinchcliffe via Flickr One of my earliest memories of the ocean was with my grandparents. I was on a trip to an Elder-hostel with my…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 320 of 365: What forces us to reconsider?Image via CrunchBase When someone is dead, they are dead to everyone. While this is crass, it is nonetheless true. It is something that I have…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 319 of 365: What is your follow up?Image via Wikipedia I have always struggled to understand the second act of Rent. The first act is so incredible. It moves me on a regular basis.…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 318 of 365: What is the difference between support and sales?You will support your ideas any way that you can. You will defend them. You will decry alternatives. You will link to items that reiterate your…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 317 of 365: What is a camera?I am now carrying a camera with me everywhere that I go. I am now capable of capturing the world around me at all times. This is no small thing. I…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 316 of 365: What is first?Starting is everything. The first step is one that you want to make surefooted. The pull of what needs attention isn’t so powerful when you have…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 315 of 365: What should we sing and what must we speak?Image via Wikipedia One of the few non-AP courses I took my senior year of high school was Drama. It was, quite simply, the perfect course for…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 314 of 365: What should we learn from updating our apps?Image by FabioHofnik via Flickr For years I have put off doing software updates on my computer. I have found them painful and time consuming. I…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 313 of 365: What is true accumulation?I am heading into my 10th winter of living in Colorado. While this is not an accomplishment to many of the natives that live here, it is something…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 312 of 365: What is the science of leaving?Does calling you a “lucky bastard” mean that you are doing something right or something wrong? Does it mean that you have made a good decision for…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 311 of 365: When should you take a sick day?When you have to use your wife’s expired pregnancy anti-nasea medacine to stop from vomiting. Posted via email from The Throughput365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 310 of 365: What is the right increment?I used to think that incremental change would not suffice. Nothing would infuriate me more than baby steps forward. And yet, the kinds of…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 309 of 365: What is our Kleenex Acceptable Use Policy?I was a nose picker. When I felt as though there was an obstruction, I went after it with gusto. I was not proud of this habit, but I didn’t know…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 308 of 365: What does a new choice give us?For the first time in about 5 years, I get to pick out a new cell phone. I was bound by a 2 year contract that transitioned directly into a…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 307 of 365: Why should we sand?Image via Wikipedia When my wife and I moved into our first house, we decided we would change a few things. We moved the refrigerator out of the…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 306 of 365: What happens when you no longer have to explain?I realize that I have spent a great part of my professional life explaining things. I explain how tools work or how to write a persuasive paper. I…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 305 of 365: When should we pull the trigger?Image via CrunchBase I have never fired a gun. At least unless you count pellet guns at camp in middle school. Sure, I won minor marksmen awards…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 304 of 365: How do you know when you have found the right community?You see people loitering and being congratulated for doing so. You hear authentic and original voices throughout the day. You see the sunlight…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
October 2010
31 posts- Question 303 of 365: Why is the ball up in the rafters?Image via Wikipedia In every gymnasium I have ever been to, whether it is at a recreation center, athletic club or school has a ball or balloon…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 302 of 365: How much notice should you give?Making a decision is the hard part, but letting everyone know requires skill. You have to be tactful and allow everyone their own time to process.…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 301 of 365: How cold is the water?Image via Wikipedia I once waded out into a river where other children were happily playing. I found myself unable to go in past my knees. My legs…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 300 of 365: Where are our words going?Image via Wikipedia I once bought a snoopy diary. With my own money. I took it to the Rec. Center immediately because I was proud of having some…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 299 of 365: What needs to be said out loud?I love you. I’m sorry. You’re fired. Pretty much everything else can be done with innuendo and body language. Those three things and every story…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 298 of 365: What is secrecy with a smile?There are many secrets that would make no one happy to hear. They are things that are hidden for a reason. They are the things that we hold onto…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 297 of 365: How are we keeping the pulse?I once waited at home all day waiting for a friend of mine to call. He said that he would, and I believed it was my duty to make sure that I was…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 296 of 365: Are we backing the wrong horse?Image via Wikipedia I do not, in general, gamble with my wallet. I have been to a casino once, and it wasn’t what I would consider all that…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 295 of 365: What does this X mark?The spot that everyone else has overlooked. The spot that is hidden away and underdeveloped. The spot that could be the epicenter of something…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Tech Mentor PD #libertypdPurpose: To engage all teachers with tools and pedagogy to improve workflow, student literacy/achievement and connected learning. We will create…
- Question 294 of 365: What is flexibility?Sometimes I wish I were the managing editor of a major news publication. Sometimes I wish I had the ability to put certain stories on the front…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 293 of 365: Where does documentation get us?Image via Wikipedia I take notes. I can’t help but listen to others and write down what it is that they have said. I can’t help but summarize and…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 292 of 365: When can we speak freely?US Military protocol is almost entirely unappealing to me. The hierarchical structure and the chain of command really don’t adhere to my ideals of…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 291 of 365: What is the new Eugenics?Image via Wikipedia I once had a conversation with a man I didn’t know during which he extolled the virtues of Eugenics and the idea of a master…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 290 of 365: What is the shortest distance between two points?The cleverest line you can think of. Of course. Posted via email from The Throughput365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 289 of 365: What is the correct reaction to having completed your first born’s 4th birthday party?Exhausion mixed with an undeniable thirst for a can (not bottle) of Fat Tire. Posted via email from The Throughput365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 288 of 365: Are we picking fights?I am offended by the things that might happen. Not the things you are saying or doing, but the the things that you might say or do if allowed to…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 287 of 365: Why are panoramas so hard?I used to be able to look at all of the mountains and gain something from the experience. Now, I just cower in fear. I can’t understand them,…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 286 of 365: How did Gmail become the killer app for workflow?Image via Wikipedia As much as we would like to leave email in the dust and move on to a brand new world of constant co-creation, we are never…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 285 of 365: When does advocacy become an employment strategy?Image by Julie70 via Flickr Being in favor of things is not so very hard. I’m for watching TV in the evenings. I’m for laughing with children. I’m…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 284 of 365: When are we wedged in?No matter how luxurious or feature-ridden, the back of a car in-between two enormous carseats is not a comfortable place to be. As you try to…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 283 of 365: Who is in our carpool?I took my brother to school every day of his middle school career. I was already going to our 7-12 campus for my high school education, so it…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 282 of 365: Why do we build houses?One of my favorite songs is called “To build a house” by Lincoln, an incredibly little know band that only put out one album in 1997. Until today…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 281 of 365: Who is our away message for?For the third time in a month I am away for a long weekend. On each of these occasions, I turned on the away message for email, chat and voice…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 280 of 365: Do we need Man Caves?Image via Wikipedia Call it an office or a tool shed or a garage, but the Man Cave has become something of a mythical figure in daily married…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 279 of 365: Why do we eat at McDonald's?I used to eat at McDonald’s instead going to church. I used to sit with one of my best friend’s in the world and talk about just how our lives…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 278 of 365: What is our four way stop?There were two man roads that led into my home town: East Washington and Bell. In the middle of town, they were one block apart but by my house,…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 277 of 365: Are we on the clock?I used to put my hours on a time card. I used to slot it into metal container made especially for that purpose. I didn’t punch in because that…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 276 of 365: Are our expectations for breakfast too low?Image via Wikipedia To a large extent, my wife bases her day on how good her breakfast is. To be sure, she has a weekday regimen of fresh bananas,…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 275 of 365: Why do we run through yellow lights?Because we aren’t done living just yet. Posted via email from The Throughput365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 274 of 365: Why do we make it interesting?I have been asked a number of times in the last few weeks the following question: “What would make this interesting for you?” It is such a…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
September 2010
30 posts- Question 273 of 365: What can I blame on your workflow?It’s your fault when you don’t answer email. It’s your fault when you require phone calls in order to advance the conversation. It’s your fault…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 272 of 365: What are we not paying for?In thinking about budgets in tight times, it may be easiest to think about all of the things that we are paying for and then see exactly what it…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 271 of 365: Who will we let change us?Image by rshannonsmith via Flickr My son has never liked being changed, not even when he was very small. He is absurdly strong and his hips seem…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 270 of 365: How do we define success?Image via Wikipedia I believe in serendipity. It is one of my strongest held beliefs, actually. It is the way in which I find much of the passion…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 269 of 365: Are we looking hard enough?I have stopped telling people that things can’t be done. I used to say it all of the time, but I haven’t for quite some time. I used to make up…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 268 of 365: Can we take everything with us?Image by bigcityal via Flickr We have preferences and we have workflows. We know where things are in our offices and on our devices. We don’t have…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 267 of 365: How much are we willing to share?Image via CrunchBase My first email address that wasn’t tied to a major online provider like AOL was pacer@cyberdrive.net. It came from this local…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 266 of 365: When is hyperbole needed?Honesty is sexy. Truth provides a potent attraction. Seeing the world clearly and being able to communicate that clarity is stunning. But…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 265 of 365: How many pieces am I playing with?Image via Wikipedia Chess has a certain amount of pieces, as does every other game that I can think of. If you put too many pieces on the board it…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 264 of 365: How do we get back to work?One unparalleled responsibility at a time.365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 263 of 365: Where can we live?I have lived at 7 different addresses that I can remember and in only two cities. The total lack of variety is somewhat startling. I didn’t so…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 262 of 365: How do we interrupt this program?The emergency broadcast system has always been something of a mystery to me. The odd, modem-like noises coming from the tv and radio, the ominous…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 261 of 365: Have we repurposed our piers?Piers were originally created for shipping cargo over the waterways. Enormous ships came in and were loaded with enormous containers. There was…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 260 of 365: Can we touch the grapes?The things that we are most proud of, the ones that take us the most time to get right, the ones that are distinctive because our personality is…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 259 of 365: Are we getting used to the stench?There are only a few windy overcast days in Denver. We have 300 day of sunshine a year, and it is something we are quite proud of, even if we have…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 258 of 365: When have you found a family friend?There were about three different families that were always present when I was growing up. They were at every birthday party, most holidays, and…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 257 of 365: Why can't I just drag the path along?I notice that mapping is still difficult. Not as hard, perhaps, as when it was done with a compass, pencil and paper. But, hard nonetheless. I…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 256 of 365: What is better left unopened?Image via Wikipedia One of my favorite things in this life is a can of mixed nuts. I don’t get to enjoy them very often, but whenever I see a can…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 255 of 365: Are we ready for our children to grow up?Universally and unequivocally, no. Posted via email from The Throughput365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 254 of 365: Is there another way to wait?I no longer have the capacity to wait. Whenever I am in a line or waiting for others to meet with me, I have to get out my phone or iPad and start…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 253 of 365: Are we loops or layers?I used to record music in my dorm room. I would hook up a microphone to my laptop and start to play my guitar. I tried to do this when my roommate…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 252 of 365: When does Prioritization stop?I think that most of us are pretty used to making lists by now. We all do it quite well. Whether it is for things we need to do or simply the…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 251 of 365: Are we making arches?Each piece of an arch is needed in order to support the structure. More than that, each one must be placed in tension with one another. The small…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 250 of 365: Can we see through our own environment?I can see now that everything is clouded by our own vision. We don’t perceive things as they are, but as we think they are. We see our situation…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 249 of 365: Why do routines win?Nearly every night I throw my son’s diapers into the wash. They are gDiapers, which are kind of like the hybrid of the diaper industry. They are…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 248 of 365: Who are the scumbags?Walking around the streets of Chicago at night with two small children can be a harrowing experience. At the very least, it can be an education.…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 247 of 365: Why do we get married?As far as I can tell, it is one of the only truly respectable and meaningful things I have done with my life. Not that it is worthy of respect on…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 246 of 365: What is the sum of an extended family?Some slow, some fast: we are all going somewhere different in the same vehicle. Posted via email from The Throughput365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 245 of 365: What is our social media policy?An institution will be known by its use of social media. They will be seen through the lens of every contributor in their ranks. They will either…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 244 of 365: Why do users revolt?Image via CrunchBase Over the past week, something strange has been happening on Digg. Ever since they changed over to a new format for the…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
August 2010
34 posts- Question 243 of 365: What is our greatest coup?The greatest accomplishments of my life have been evolutionary. I went to college after high school. I got married after college. I had children…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 242 of 365: How do we build things that we want to own?Image by JOE MARINARO via Flickr The New Belgium Brewing Company has only been around for 19 years. Every employee owns part of the company after…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- All Educational Twitter Chats in One CalendarUpdate [05.20.2011]: Sarah Kaiser made one of these too, and it may be more up to date than the one below. I few weeks back I recognized a need…
- Question 241 of 365: What is a unisexual?Image via Wikipedia U is for unicycle. I know because a toy told me. My daughter asked me about the validity of that statement. She wanted to know…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Edmodo for Online Schools… wait, for all schools.Image via CrunchBase (Cross-posted on the Edmodo Blog. I have not taken any money for this endorsement. They just asked if I would write a…
- Question 240 of 365: Why are lists important?It is my 6th wedding anniversary. Every year, my wife and I make a list of all of the memorable things that have happened since our last…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 239 of 365: Who are the happiest employees?Those who have slides at their workplaces. It can be outside or in between floors of a building, but having a slide is required. Posted via email…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 238 of 365: Why is everything a phone?I just got the message today that I am now able to call domestic phone numbers from gmail. In one fell swoop, Google has become my default phone…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 237 of 365: Is the username dying?Image via Wikipedia I remember Hackers, the awkward mid-90’s movie, fondly. It represented a do-it-yourself future in which those who understood…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 236 of 365: Who wins when others fail?Image via Wikipedia I don’t want to hear about other people not doing their jobs right. It isn’t interesting, novel, or beneficial. It may make…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 235 of 365: What is the real nightmare of testing?Cover of Waking Life I don’t put much stock in dreams, at least not the kind that you can have when you sleep. Most of the time, I like to think…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 234 of 365: What is the new mix?Image via Wikipedia I used to make music mixes for every occasion of my life. For birthdays, for anniversaries, and for Christmas. There was no…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 233 of 365: What is a morale dilemma?My morale is conflicted. In tending the communities I created, I have constructed an almost impossible conundrum for myself. It goes something…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 232 of 365: Where is aspen, colorado?I’m pretty sure its on another planet. Yep. Pretty sure. Posted via email from The Throughput365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 231 of 365: What are the technologies that never die?The 8 track tape is dead. No one has produced new music on one for a number of decades now. The UHF radio station is dead. Everything over the…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 230 of 365: What is a proportionate response?I once found a Nike hat in a Best Buy parking lot. No one was around and it looked to be in pretty good shape. I picked it up and wiped off the…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 229 of 365: Who started it?Image via Wikipedia Sometimes the best ideas are not our own. Definitely not mine, anyway. Sometimes when we check into our communities, we…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 228 of 365: How much do we want to see something spectacular?Image by Willderbeast via Flickr I get the feeling that we want the next big thing so badly that we see it in everything we do. We want the…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 227 of 365: What is genuine?We are all works of fiction. No matter how truthful we may try to be, our own stories betray the characatures that we let stand in for us. It is…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 226 of 365: What speaks to us?Image by GDS Infographics via Flickr I have a web alert set up for “social media” in my local area. Anything, whether it is a job or blog post or…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 225 of 365: Are you pumped?I have heard this phrase a number of times in the last day. I’m pumped about that. I think we are in hopeful moments when the thing we feel is…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 224 of 365: Why do we go and go and go?Because we must and must and must. Posted via email from The Throughput365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Questions 222 of 365: How gullible are we?Image by IpUrBeLtZ via Flickr Gullibility is an ironic joke to those who are young. We tell each other that the word isn’t in the dictionary or…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 223 of 365: What forces your hand?Image via Wikipedia My wife got into nursing school today. She took prerequisites, applied, interviewed and was offered a spot in nursing school.…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 221 of 365: Who are we before we have done anything (and who are we after)?Image by SOCIALisBETTER via Flickr I am lucky enough to have kept copies of my earliest resumes. As an assignment in my 11th grade English course,…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 220 of 365: Who do we ask to watch our stuff?Image by The Library of Congress via Flickr I don’t regret leaving my laptop, cell phone, iPad, and portable wifi hotspot on the table. I don’t…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 219 of 365: When do we need to invent places to be?Image by DanieVDM via Flickr The most creative virtual worlds are those that are in our heads. They are the ones that we create out of pure…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 218 of 365: How crippling is indecision?Image by National Library of Scotland via Flickr In the midst of trying to figure about a direction for work, for passion, and for sanity, I find…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 217 of 365: Who spilled?Image via Wikipedia I have always been pretty clumsy. I didn’t know how clumsy until I met my wife. She has a way to showcase nearly every one of…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 216 of 365: What are the right triggers?Image via Wikipedia I’ve been thinking a lot about if-then statements. Those little representations of causality that seem to crop up everywhere.…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 215 of 365: What happens when languages are made irrelevant?Image via Wikipedia This situation now exists: Google Chrome senses when a webpage is written in another language and it translates it on the fly…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 214 of 365: What changes everything?Image by Jesslee Cuizon via Flickr I don’t often make proclamations that I believe to be true for everyone. I don’t do this because I know that…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 213 of 365: Where is the asterisk?Image via Wikipedia I have never understood infomercials. While they may be fun to watch or poke fun at every once in a while, I have never for a…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 212 of 365: Is it going there or coming back that is harder?Image via Wikipedia I rode my bike today from Frisco, Co to Breckenridge, an 8 or 9 mile route one way. The path was a slow grinding incline on…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
July 2010
35 posts- Question 211 of 365: What are our impulse buys?Image by Getty Images via @daylife I run a lot of errands to the grocery store. I pick up items like milk for my kids or spices for an upcoming…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 210 of 365: What does a three year old think about the oil spill in the gulf?Image by eschipul via Flickr Today in the car, my daughter wondered what the oil wells in the farmland of Colorado were all about. I said they…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 209 of 365: What is the difference between a leak and a link?Image via Wikipedia The wikileaks papers are exquisite. In their scope and its specificity, they are immense. I don’t fully understand all of…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 208 of 365: Are we special customers?Image via CrunchBase There was a local chinese takeout place that my wife and I used to frequent. When we lived in the dorms, we were a stone’s…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 207 of 365: What is the moral of the story?Be supportive and supported at the same time as often as you possibly can.365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Advanced Online Learning Day 2: #synclinkpostI am often amazed at how shallow my knowledge can be if I haven’t taken the time to play. I can get the concept that a given tool or idea is…
- Question 206 of 365: Where is the open book?Image via Wikipedia Every time I put my son down for bed, he sees fit to be totally uninterested without a good amount of singing of songs and…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Advance Online Learning Day 1: #synclinkpostEvery online course I have taught has been pre-packaged, with known outcomes. While I have felt as though others needed me to provide that kind of…
- Question 205 of 365: Why don't we clear the board more often?Image by MarkyBon via Flickr I have been to a few emergency rooms, mostly for highly nervous new parent reasons. Near each one is a board with…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 204 of 365: When do we almost die?Image by jef safi via Flickr It strikes me that we almost die far more often than we actually do. Most of the days that I drive to work I think…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 203 of 365: Should writing be harder?Image via Wikipedia Access to information never gets old. I coveted it when all I could access was the universal search on AOL. I still covet it…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 202 of 365: What are the limits of a mobile office?Image via CrunchBase I have few requirements left for being connected. It used to be that I needed a single computer, my computer, in order to…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 201 of 365: How hard and how fast should we jump on the ice?Image via Wikipedia The Chagrin river never froze over completely. At least, not in my memory anyway. It was always halfway frozen in the winter,…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 200 of 365: Are we on a roll, taking roll, role models, rolling the dice or just rolls of toilet paper?Image via Wikipedia We worry about being fathers. We worry about being sons. About being employees and entrepreneurs. We worry about the things…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 199 of 365: When do we stop asking for medicine and band-aids?Image via Wikipedia I had a favorite medicine growing up called Triaminic. It was the wonder cure-all. Pretty much anything that was wrong could…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 198 of 365: When is sleep inappropriate?Image via Wikipedia I observed classrooms for years before I became a teacher. Sometimes I would observe the interaction between students or the…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 197 of 365: Do laughs echo?Only if the words are true and the hope of the next joke is within every moment. The funny bounces around the pointed ceiling and whips us up into…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 196 of 365: What happens when you find a pressure point?You push and massage and work that point intil there is nothing left and you fall head first into your bed and fall fast and sure into a dreamless…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 195 of 365: How do we know what we are good for?Image via Wikipedia There is a difference in knowing what you are good at and know what you are good for. I once wrote a poem during a study hall…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Moodle 4 Learning Day 2Telling your learning story makes you a better learner and a teacher. It is my hope that within this course you are not only getting the bare…
- Question 194 of 365: What should we brandish?I could have left the -ish off the question and had it be something completely different. I could have talked about all of the ways in which we…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Moodle For Learning Day 1I have had no formal training in Moodle. Everything that I know has been gathered carefully from all of the amazing questions, projects and…
- Question 193 of 365: Which way is up?Image by Swamibu via Flickr Truth be told: I have no flippin’ clue.365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 192 of 365: Where is the crazy?Image by jah~ off n on via Flickr Crazy people are everywhere. Not just the run of the mill crazy, either. I’m talking about completely out of…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 191 of 365: What is the skeptic's option?Image by wburris via Flickr Everyone who asks questions is a skeptic in one way or another, which is to say that everyone is a skeptic. I once…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 190 of 365: Should we be after pure research?Image via Wikipedia I’ve been rereading Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. recently. I always forget how good that book is until I take another…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 189 of 365: How can other's words say what I mean?Image via Wikipedia I found this book, Nothing Feels good by Andy Greenwald. And along with being beautifully written, it describes so well what…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 188 of 365: What did we buy?Image via Wikipedia Credit card companies are stupid. Not for any of the crazy backwards pricing structures or 0% percent nonsense that they send…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- 25 Killer (iPad) AppsImage via Wikipedia I have been putting this post off for a while now, but I am finally compelled to write about all of the apps that I am using…Curated Lists
- Question 187 of 365: What is our equation?Image via Wikipedia I used to believe that everything equaled out in the end. That at some point, everyone would get the same amount of…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 186 of 365: How should we submit our work?Image via CrunchBase I think a lot about the submit button. The process of taking something that you own and uploading it to someone else is an…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 185 of 365: What happens when you just watch?Image by andrusdevelopment via Flickr I saw a twinkle of power and awe in my daughter tonight. She held her first sparkler and threw her first…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 184 of 365: When can we have patches?Image via Wikipedia I was in the boy scouts for a total of a few months. It wasn’t that I didn’t like the things that happened there, I’m just not…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 183 of 365: Are we possible?Image via Wikipedia I have plans. Brainstorms and Mind Maps, too. I write out lists and sketch out wireframes. I see folder structures and…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 182 of 365: What is the benefit of an extreme position?Image via Wikipedia Carnivals were a common occurrence during my childhood. The Blossom time parade and carnival over memorial day was perhaps the…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
June 2010
35 posts- Question 181 of 365: What is a vendor? #iste10Image by Getty Images via @daylife A company becomes a vendor when they have clients. Or when they provide services to a specific subset or field.…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 179 of 365: Who is the big cheese?John Richards Posted via email from The Throughput The first rule of the Royal Fondue Society is that you don’t talk about the Royal Fondue Society.365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 180 of 365: Are we selfish?I have never liked cavorting. I find the nimble act of careless frolicking to be unnerving. Done within the snow is even more scary. You have to…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Notes from the edu-cloud consortium #iste10Download now or preview on posterous educloudconsortium.pdf (2055 KB) PDF notes: Posted via email from The Throughput
- Design with forever in mind: Capturing Learning #iste10 presentationHere is the presentation: Design with forever_in_mind 2 View more presentations from bhwilkoff. Here is the reflection from my participants (not…
- Question 178 of 365: Are we backwards compatible?Image via Wikipedia I am on an old computer today. It doesn’t work with all of my newfangled iPads, Keynote files, or the standard version of…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 177 of 365: What is plan b?Image via Wikipedia Preparation is something I had to learn. While I have always planned, true preparation has always eluded me. I mean to say…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 176 of 365: When is networking just drinking with friends?Image by willfree via Flickr The largest technology and education conference has come to Denver. Is the one time of the year when people from all…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Notes from #lbc10 roundtablesDownload now or preview on posterous idea.pdf (186 KB) Ben Wilkoff Collaborate now: http://bit.ly/WilkoffDoc Posted via email from The Throughput
- Further notes from #lbc10Download now or preview on posterous lbc10.pdf (2429 KB) Notes from iPad. Posted via email from The Throughput
- Question 175 of 365: Where does arrogance come from?Image via Wikipedia It is impossible to know everything, or to even know all of the things that there are to know in one particular area. We all…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 174 of 365: What is our coallition?Image via Wikipedia My name is Ben Wilkoff. I claim it as my own. Here are the other things that I claim: I claim a space that allows people to…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 173 of 365: What should an interview be?Image via Wikipedia I am on a panel to help choose the next Director of Online Learning at the Colorado Department of Education. The panel itself…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 172 of 365: Who is our fairy godmother?I have been reading a lot of children’s stories, as might be expected with a soon to be two and four year old in the house. Many of these stories…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 171 of 365: When is the old stuff just as good as the new stuff?Image by ibookpaul via Flickr I owned one of the first hard-drive based mp3 players, the Archos Jukebox 6000. It has a full 6 gigabyte hard drive…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 170 of 365: What is the benefit of rubber handled safety scissors?Image via Wikipedia The inconsequential saved my daughter a lot of pain today. It probably saved us a trip to the hospital. It definitely saved us…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 169 of 365: What should we do in the hour before?Image via Wikipedia In the middle of the sixth grade, I realized that I didn’t care much for doing my math homework. Instead of waking up early to…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 168 of 365: When are we ready to fulfill our promises?Image via Wikipedia Making promises is one of the easiest things that I have ever done. They just roll off my tongue after a while. In fact, so…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 167 of 365: When does the game change?Image via CrunchBase I wrestled for 2 years when I was in elementary school. I was never all that good at it, but I did manage to win a few…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 166 of 365: How can we scrape better?Image via Wikipedia I guess I might as well go on the record for stating that the future of networks is in scraping. I know that some people are…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 165 of 365: What do we squander?Money, time and opportunity. That is the short answer. The slightly longer answer is that we squander pretty much anything that we can get our…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 164 of 365: What is the power of undo?I think that the single greatest innovation in the history of creative work was the undo button. The ability to go back to what was before and not…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 163 of 365: Which conversations matter?I once spoke with my best friend’s mother at a choir concert when I was 12. We had just listened to Barbara Ann and then we talked about the…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 162 of 365: When does a voice hold us close?Image via Wikipedia Kurt Vonnegut is the first author that I ever truly loved. It started with Hocus Pocus and Slaughter House Five, but it really…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 161 of 365: How important is bearing a resemblence?My son looks just like me, or at least so I am told. He has bigger eyes and a rounder nose, but other than that, there is a striking resemblence…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 160 of 365: When is something both good and true?Image by Getty Images via @daylife We have been warned all of our lives that things that seem too good to be true, probably are. This healthy…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 159 of 365: Who are the undead?Everyone who is touched by death but cannot make it better on their own. Anyone who understands the grieving process but can’t see any movement…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 158 of 365: What is the percent complete?I was told by a coworker the other day that computers don’t know how to tell time. Specifically, they have no idea when something will finish…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 157 of 365: Why won't they sleep?My wife has a friend that she has known since the fourth grade. This friend, Mandy, also married a Ben. She also has two kids. She also…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 156 of 365: What is the farthest we will travel?I don’t believe in absolutes. I don’t believe in martyrdom. And, I don’t believe in regretting what we have chosen. I chose to get on an airplane…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 155 fo 365: Who do we root for?Cover of Spellbound Along with the finals for the NBA and NHL going on this weekend, there was also another kind of competition that garners far…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 154 of 365: What are fences good for?Nearly all of the houses in my neighborhood have fences, many of which are in severe need of repair. They are coming down because they were all…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 153 of 365: What is bad?I have pretty consistently told others that nothing bad ever happens to me. I say this becuase of my generally positive outlook on the events that…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 152 of 365: What do we do with uninvited guests (or, the CC effect)?There is a disturbing trend in sharing. We share with others (as we should), giving them the ability to edit and observe. This allows them to…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 151 of 365: How do we predict the future?Image by louisvolant via Flickr Everyone is trying to devine the next big thing. Reading the tea leaves on Twitter or letting the alerts drift in…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
May 2010
36 posts- Question 150 of 365: What can we say in the moment?Image via Wikipedia I spoke at my high school graduation. Along with our valedictorian and a few other people who applied for the job, I gave a…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 149 of 365: What happens when it shatters?The wind must have grabbed it while we were out. It must have taken hold of the oversized umbrella and flipped the entire table, shattering the…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 148 of 365: Who gets notified?Image by Getty Images via @daylife The shipment of iPads came in. The ones that my father was looking forward to. The one that meant a message…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 147 of 365: Who are the workout haters?Image via Wikipedia During my first year of college, I decided that I was going to work out every day. And I did. I ate whatever I wanted, but I…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 146 of 365: How are we taking turns?Image via Wikipedia My children take turns with the best of them. They have a strong instinct for when it is their turn, but they will (if…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 145 of 365: How can we make self policing work?Image by sociomantic via Flickr Many people are uninterested in social networking. For as many people that are joining Facebook every day (about…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 144 of 365: How do we learn to rollerskate?Image via Wikipedia For my tenth birthday party, I received a set of black roller-skates. Not rollerblades or inline roller hockey skates, but…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 143 of 365: What is too easy?When I jailbroke my ipad, I pretty much had two goals in mind. The first was to see what multitasking really looked like on an iDevice and to get…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 142 of 365: Who controls the power of suggestion?Image via Wikipedia My children have trigger words. Certain phrases cannot be said in their presence. If these words are uttered within earshot,…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Questions 140 of 365: When do we get to see Slim Goodbody?Image by underwhelmer via Flickr PBS is good for a lot of things. Creating unreal expectations for what the world is like is one of my favorites.…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 141 of 365: Why do we still take pictures?I know the answer to this question is obvious. I know that pictures are beautiful and artful and they capture perfect moments in time. I get that.…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 139 of 365: What are we throwing out of basement windows?I threw two brand new Spanish/English dictioonaries out of the basement classroom window. It was Spanish class and I was trying to get into…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 138 of 365: When are we trains?Image by thomas.merton via Flickr Look at me, I’m a train on a track I’m a train, I’m a train, I’m a chucka train, yeah Look at me, got a load on…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Edit Google Docs Live on the iPad (and iPhone)!One of the only things that I am still disappointed about with the iPad is the inability to edit Google Docs natively on Safari or through another…
- Question 137 of 365: What is our mass pike?Image via Wikipedia I loved the smell of show on my pants. The mix of smoke, sweat and other people’s energy. My pants told the tale of a lot of…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 136 of 365: What is a family reunion?Image via Wikipedia I have never been a part of a family big enough to require a reunion. We have had many family gatherings over the years, but…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 135 of 365: Why don't we say shut up more often?Cover of 3 Ninjas I have been reliving my childhood through netflix on-demand. It seems as though all of the movies that I loved when I was a kid…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 134 of 365: What can Diaspora teach us?Image by Intersection Consulting via Flickr Until this week I had only ever heard the word Diaspora to describe Jews who are living away from…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- #hr10tech Presentation: Ready or Not- The Future of Networks and CommunityReady or Not: The future of networks and community View more presentations from bhwilkoff.
- Question 133 of 365: When should you pack up and leave?Image via Wikipedia “Last Night” is the title of one of my favorite songs (by The Strokes) and my favorite movies (A Canadian Indie Film). The…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 132 of 365: Who's shadow are we in?Image by Rennett Stowe via Flickr I traveled with my father when I was young. To Australia, to Japan, to Spain. He went there to talk to people…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 131 of 365: Am I dressing for the job that I want?Image via Wikipedia For an entire year, I wore only sports jackets and ties to work. No matter how hot and no matter how what day of the week, I…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 130 of 365: When are we open for business?Image via CrunchBase I am a part of the first generation of file sharers, the first set of adults who felt entitled to free music and software.…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 129 of 365: Is it better to go to bed early or go through the motions?Go to bed early. Posted via email from The Throughput365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 128 of 365: Why should we smoke?Image via Wikipedia I got to know my wife by smoking hundreds of cigarretes with her. We would sit outside of the dorm and talk about what we were…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 127 of 365: Whose hands are we in?I used to have trouble reading. Not with the words that were on the page or with figuring out the metaphorical language either. I had trouble…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Drawing and thinkingSo I’m pretty sure that I lost something when everything became about text. Now that it’s not, I think there is an even greater shift afoot. See…
- Question 126 of 365: Is multi-tasking noise?Image by natala007 via Flickr People have been up in arms since the iPhone came out that it doesn’t allow multi-tasking. In fact, I was one of…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- How does this look?Download now or preview on posterous idea.pdf (50 KB) Posted via email from The Throughput
- Question 125 of 365: Who moved my privacy?Image via Wikipedia Virginia Woolf wasn’t kidding. Having a room of one’s own matters. That is why teachers who keep their materials on carts are…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 124 of 365: Are there clowns hanging up on our walls?Image via Wikipedia The Cleveland Clinic was my childhood hospital. I visited my pediatrician there with my two brothers more times than I care to…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Desktop Virtualization for the iPad!I think one of the things that most intrigued me about the ipad was that It might actually be able to replace a computer running windows or OSX by…
- Question 123 of 365: How much are we inspired by comfort?Image via Wikipedia So, I’m blogging from an iPad. I’m that guy. I’m sitting here with my bluetooth wireless keyboard resting on my lap, looking…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 122 of 365: Who yells out during a live recording?Image by commondream via Flickr One of my favorite bands of all time is Ben Folds Five. There was always a certain nerdiness that went along with…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 121 of 365: What is the point of conditional statements?I know that all success is dependent upon other successes. I just thought that I could choose which successes to build upon to go forward. Ashton…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 120 of 365: Who were we when we first learned to open doors?My son just learned how to open doors. He stretches as far as he possibly can, trusting that his socks won’t slip under the strain. He extends…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
April 2010
30 posts- Question 119 of 365: How can you have everything?I stood where Bill Gates is standing right now. I’m not sure why that matters, but knowing that I was previously in the same space as one of the…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 118 of 365: When can efforts truly dovetail?My grandfather didn’t yell. He never really felt the need. His authoritative voice was so awe-inspiring that trying to do anything against his…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 117 of 365: When should you jump ship?Image via Wikipedia Other people affect us in the strangest ways. Retirement parties are one such example. The rash of these awkward moments in my…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 116 of 365: How much power is in the absurd?Tagging has always been an art form I am a little embarrassed to appreciate. Even before I understood the graffiti in downtown Cleveland, I think…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 115 of 365: When should we build things just to knock them down?Image by unloveablesteve via Flickr Domino Rally required a lot of patience. Setting up the huge amount of dominos in a row without knocking them…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 114 of 365: What will we pay to have simulated?Image via Wikipedia I’m pretty sure it was Hardball 3 that got me through the great Baseball strike of the 94-95 season. Rather it was one…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 113 of 365: Why do we need collaborative email signatures?Image by Gubatron via Flickr I feel more complete when other people come into my space than when I go into theirs. I feel as though they are…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 112 of 365: How do we show up now?Image by Simon Lieschke via Flickr I didn’t miss a class in college. Not the early morning british literature class with the English woman who…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 111 of 365: How hard is it to be born?Image via Wikipedia It is all a matter of perspective. My typical perspective is that it is hard to give birth to something. My wife knows more…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 110 of 365: Can we change from the outside?Image by mpclemens via Flickr Advice is a funny thing. It is often sought, often misheard, often rejected, often obnoxious, and often invaluable.…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 109 of 365: What is your field?A man that I trust and respect once told me that we always go from specific to general in our heads, but we want to go from the general to the…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 108 of 365: Why do we want to be entrepreneurs?Image via Wikipedia The easy answer is that we would like to turn something out of nothing. While many of us are not in the entrepreneurial field,…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 107 of 365: Are we occupying or transforming our idle time?My brothers played hockey. Smelly, cold, and rough and tumble. They had early ice times and late night games. They played from mighty mites on up…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 106 of 365: How can we find unique comfort?Image via Wikipedia I sometimes have a hard time relating to those who have never played bumper pool. While most people don’t come right out and…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 105 of 365: Are we still allowed to be embarrassed?Image by slambo_42 via Flickr You never know if you can fit underneath a metal folding chair until you try. I used to sing really loud just about…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
Create your own real-time SMS to Twitter service!For the past month I have been trying to figure out an elegant way of having an entire audience all tweet to the same account using text messaging…- Question 104 of 365: How far will we dig?Image via Wikipedia My grandmother owned a mountain. Well, maybe not the entire mountain, but in the middle of Ohio, it is about the closest thing…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 103 of 365: Who is watching out for whom?Image via Wikipedia I had never dressed up for Halloween until I became a teacher. It just wasn’t something we did in my family. But, when I…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 102 of 365: Is silence still an option?Image via Wikipedia Study hall was where I honed my skills as a bully. And since I was weaker and less socially adept than almost everyone, my…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 101 of 365: What is the next vanity?Image by Getty Images via Daylife I used to fall asleep in crazy positions. My parents tell this story about me falling asleep with my chest over…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 100 of 365: Why do we crave a streak?Image via Wikipedia I used to have these hall of fame baseball figurines of guys like Honus Wagner that I would play with in my bed. I would have…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 99 of 365: What are we trying to prove?Image via Wikipedia I just had one of the best quiches I have ever tasted. It seemed to be puffed perfectly and filled with the most incredible…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 98 of 365: What will we have time for?Image via Wikipedia I remember a discussion I had with my homeroom teacher in high school that went something like this: Teacher: I used to play…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 97 of 365: What are we willing to work for?Image via Wikipedia I used to tell everyone that I was going to become a teacher. I would tell them that it was the novels that I read in high…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 96 of 365: What's touch got to do with it?My son wouldn’t stop screaming in the Apple store today. I tried to give him crackers and even Vanilla Wafers to try and get him to entertain…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 95 of 365: What do teams solve?Groups seem to be the holy grail of social networks. From Linked-in groups to the new Facebook communities to the millions of people…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 94 of 365: Should we buy and sell our screen real estate?My wife and I sold our first house this weekend. It was the place that both of our children started their lives. It was the first place that we…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 93 of 365: What are our plans for data?I don’t think that I will ever get over the fact that a world of information exists in the air I breathe. I am continually amazed by wifi and 3g…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 92 of 365: What would unicorn taste like?Sometimes, it is really important to consider the impossible, the improbable, and the utterly insane. There is nothing so freeing and beautiful as…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 91 of 365: Is freelancing ever enough?People freelance because they want their freedom. They want to be able to come and go as they please, take an afternoon off or stay at home and…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
March 2010
32 posts- Question 90 of 365: How can we stop creating knowledge pyramid schemes?Image via Wikipedia I’m in over my head. I claim to know more than I do. I’m standing on the shoulders of giants, and I don’t even know their…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 89 of 365: What's on the table?Image by oskay via Flickr In discussions about change, the expectation is that some things are negotiable and others are not. There is a kind of…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 88 of 365: What are we worth?We are never so crass as to boil down a person to a dollar amount. To do that would be to establish the idea that a person could be purchased,…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 87 of 365: What looks like planning (but isn't)?In many ways, the working world around me is in a shambles. People have left or are leaving, transitions and uncertainty abound. I hear daily that…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 86 of 365: What is on the internet?I remember looking at the TV guide when I was a kid. I used to take it out of the Sunday paper and put it into the remote basked after I looked at…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 85 of 365: How can Guerrilla ads make themselves?In general, advertising is incredibly derivative. Promotion forever copies the next new thing in the hopes of creating buzz or catching the latest…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 84 of 365: Should we want to be darlings?Image by ciaranj75 via Flickr I realize that it is often a very specific push that gets you on your way. The folks doing that pushing are ussually…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 83 of 365: What does it mean to be device free?Image via Wikipedia We are dependent upon our computers for our livelihoods and our entertainment. We are dependent upon our cell phones for…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 82 of 365: Who should we have in our buildings?I enjoy talking about space a whole lot. It doesn’t matter whether it is online or physical, the concept intrigues me to no end. I could debate…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 81 of 365: What can we reverse engineer?I would love to be able to talk about the reverse engineering of DVD encryption or iPhone firmware intelligently, but mostly I would be quoting…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 80 of 365: How can we ask for radical use?Image via Wikipedia “Use as directed” is a command that is losing all of its value*. I use almost everything for multiple purposes now. My garbage…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 79 of 365: How do you monitor your periphery?I do a decent job of staying in touch with my friends and co-workers. I answer e-mail, IM or Skype, call, and even occasionally talk to them in…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 78 of 365: Should your brand be a person?The is no lack of branding going on in the twittersphere or on any of the social networks that have built huge organization promotion services…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 77 of 365: How can we make the new seem normal?Very few objects are special to me. They exist in my life because they are of use, but they are replaceable in a huge way. Even my cross pen, the…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 76 of 365: How can we demonstrate progress?Image via Wikipedia My daughter has decided to start screaming every time she goes into her room for a nap or bedtime. It isn’t that she doesn’t…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 75 of 365: What are the new Triple Dog Dares?Image by abbey*christine via Flickr I’m sure that A Christmas Story has been formative for many just as it was for me. I’m also sure that many…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 74 of 365: What do we do with another notch in the belt?Image by Flyinace2000 via Flickr I turn one year older today. And as my brother’s fiance kept telling me, all of the special birthdays are gone.…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 73 of 365: What is the magic of a barcode?Image via Wikipedia The barcode is back. While many are looking forward to Augmented Reality and to RFID chips as the way in which we will start…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 72 of 365: Who is special?My first elementary school principal would tell us once a day (and expect us to yell it out with her) that “You are Special.” It was a kind of…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 71 of 365: What is a better organizing force, passion or values?Image via Wikipedia I have created my communities wrong. Or at least, I have done it while ignoring a huge element of what makes a great community…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 70 of 365: How far will serious take us?Image via Wikipedia When I look at what goes viral, what memes consist of, or even what I happen to click on within my twitter stream; there is…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 69 of 365: Why is action such a surprise?I have had a number of conversations recently that have resulted in someone saying that they were surprised that things were getting done. They…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 68 of 365: What does it mean to be a breadwinner?Image via Wikipedia While I do not particularly like the designation or the baggage that goes along with it, being a breadwinner is something that…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 67 of 365: Why is time theft so seductive, and in many cases, productive?I am a time thief. I take away time from my current employer in order to work on things that are not in my job description. I will admit that…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 66 of 365: What kind of relationships do our communities require?I have a daughter and a son. My wife is my best friend. I live in the suburbs. Whether these are cliches or not, they are the truth that I live…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Open Letter on Behalf of the National Writing Project (cross posted)This post is cross-posted here and was written by Mr. Chase. The Gist: The current draft of the federal budget cuts direct funding for the…
- Question 65 of 365: How do we get there from here?As much as I try to get excited about of the journey, there is still a really big part of me that just wants to arrive. The point A to B stuff…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 64 of 365: How can we be for ourselves and for an entity at the same time?I have realized that an idea can’t grow if I don’t let it stand on its own. I have figured out that I cannot be the idea. If people are going to…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 63 of 365: Can we create passionate and purposeful Serendipity?I don’t know all of the things that are going on in the world, nor do I really want to know all of them. I am content to know that there are good…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 62 of 365: Why does waiting matter?In so much of what I write and think about, I am interested in what is instant and what I can will into being. I am so interested in creating what…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 61 of 365: How do we make renewal more accessible?Sometimes, making a single change to a long held practice will completely renew your interest and commitment to that practice. One of those times…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 60 of 365: Who should be our partners?Not all collaboration is equal. There are the types of collaboration that require that I do a first draft and then everyone hangs ideas off of it…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
February 2010
31 posts- Question 59 of 365: When is Judgement better than Feedback?I speak a lot about the value of perpetual beta or the need to emphasize process over product, so this maybe an entirely hypocritical thing to…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 58 of 365: How are local and crowdsourced opposing forces?The folks in my local network are amazing. They are the ones who will babysit for my children, or hang out after work with my family. They are the…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 57 of 365: Who is doing the asking?As I have been asking a lot of questions of late, I thought it was time for me to see who else is doing the same. I should have something in…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 56 of 365: How can we make openness tangible?I have written about openness before in a more theoretical sense. I have talked about open as “the space between.” And yet, I never explored just…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 55 of 365: What is the unit of measurement for an idea?We measure and rate everything. We measure how much things weigh, how many calories we consume, what rating a movie should have based upon…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 54 of 365: Why are we digital amnesiacs?Image via Wikipedia I was going to say that we may be digital goldfish, but then I did a little bit of research and it looks like goldfish have a…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 53 of 365: Who are our board of directors?All organizations have a Board to govern them. They check in on what the org is doing and they have a unique perspective to see the whole rather…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 52 of 365: How do we unfollow in the physical world?We have embarked on exploded the word “friend” with many new online connotations as well as redefined the word “space” to mean anything we want it…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 51 of 365: What do we model in our networks?I believe that I am not modeling the uses of my network that I actually use my network for. If I have created my network, I have done it wrong.…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 50 of 365: How do we know when we are safe?Safety is something that we can feel. We know when it is present and when it isn’t. We can feel when others feel safe too. Those around us share…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 49 of 365: Is there space for us?Image by Cyprien via Flickr I was just in Nebraska working with some online teachers at one of the best facilities I have ever experienced. From…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 48 of 365: How can we encourage shoe swapping?Image via Wikipedia While this question may seem ridiculous on the surface, it is one that I have been considering for quite some time. I believe…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 47 of 365: To whom are we beholden?I ask this question on the periphery of a lot of the questions that I pose. I would like to know just to whom we owe our talents and our learning.…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 46 of 365: How do users become customers?I don’t usually use these terms, but I have continued to use them after reading a really interesting white paper on why Freemium models don’t…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 45 of 365: What is the most important data?Image via Wikipedia This kind of question requires a lot of energy. Energy that I don’t have right now. But it is a question that haunts me,…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 44 of 365: What parts of us are fragile, perpetual and renewable?We Are All We Need View more presentations from bhwilkoff. We would rather be: Skeptical, Wise, Steadfast, and Stable. But we aren’t. We Lack: The…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 43 of 365: What is the true nature of spam?Google Buzz has brought this back for me in a big way, but I have always been concerned with just how Spam has made its grand entrance into our…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- KC TechNet Keynote Presentation and Live StreamI am honored to the keynote for the KC TechNet conference this year, which happens to be in a very cool high school in Liberty, MO. I am…
- Design with Forever in Mind: KCTechNet editionHere is the slide deck for my presentation on Design with forever in Mind: Design With Forever In Mind View more presentations from bhwilkoff.…
- Question 42 of 365: How can you frame a question so that it actually gets answered?Participation matters. Above all else, if you expect people to come to your blog, read your feed, follow your buzz or engage in your web…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 41 of 365: When is vigilante infrastructure justified?Being a vigilante in any organization creates a reputation. You are known for being on the cutting edge but also for being a lone wolf. You are…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 40 of 365: Why can't we focus on making something, rather than the something itself?It is the product that we are after: the book, the video, the iPhone, the worksheet, and the report. These products are the result of a huge…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 39 of 365: What data points are we missing?All of the data points matter. The ones that fit neatly inside of your daily life are just as important as the ones that lay way outside of it.…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 38 of 365: How does color influence our actions online?I am not a graphic designer. I am not a marketing guru. I am not a color snob. However, I did run across a really interesting reverse image search…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 37 of 365: What should you do if Google decides to compete directly?Google competes with our jobs. We are only kidding ourselves if we believe otherwise. All of the knowledge that was known as expertise and was…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 36 of 365: How does distribution change the message?There are new devices popping up all over that are shifting the ways in which we get our content. Blu-Ray players no longer just play the discs…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 35 of 365: How should we react to budget cuts?The pressure of budget concerns is absolutely crushing us right now. It is the reverberating hum in all conversations. In meetings is reaches…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 34 of 365: Is hope the great pacifier?We have all kind of bought into the idea that hope can lift a people up and can make us yearn for something better, but I’m not entirely sure that…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Good Tip: Get an e-mail when your students take a quiz in MoodleI have found it to be really frustrating in keeping up with things if I can’t get e-mail notification when things happen in courses that I am…
- Question 33 of 365: Why should we jump off a cliff?My experiences attending the Boulder/Denver new technology meetings, and more recently Educon 2.2, have really gotten me thinking about just how…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 32 of 365: What are the assumptions we make in signing up?It has almost become a default position that we will be signing up for a new web application or interesting looking web service nearly every week…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
January 2010
34 posts- Question 31 of 365: How can we be "present" in spite of our digital presence? #educonImage by kjarrett via Flickr [Video to come] I found myself more present at Educon than I have been in months. I sat and talked to people and…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
Question 30 of 365: What is my innovation in education and why does it matter? (Educon 2.2 Session)I dig down deep in the ground, finding a root of a living tree and pull at it like rope until I can hold it in my hand and see what it is that is…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer- Question 29 of 365: Why is location pretending to be content?Location is the new content. Or, so would nearly every viral iPhone and web app I have seen recently have you believe. From becoming mayor of Café…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 28 of 365: Are we responsible for the Web 2.0 graveyard?As I look around the web, I see the shells of formerly great web services. I see the Flowgrams that could have been. I see the Google Notebooks…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 27 of 365: What happens if we are wrong?We seek truth. As much as we seek to be right, we must seek truth. If we are unable to see when we are wrong, then there is very little chance…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 26 of 365: Is treading water dangerous?Image via Wikipedia As far as metaphors go, there are no greater cliches than using treading water to represent staying in one given place in your…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 25 of 365: Where do privacy and regret collide?Facebook has recently changed their privacy settings and it has hit a huge nerve with nearly everyone that uses the ubiquitous social network. It…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 24 of 365: When should you fire your community?Cultivating a rich and supportive community is one of the hardest and most worthwhile things you can do with your online presence. It is something…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 23 of 365: Is asking for permission still important?Is it still important to ask for permission when people tell you exactly how they want you to use their work? Is it still important when your…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 22 of 365: Farmville practices Ghetto Testing, why aren't we?I had never experienced the term Ghetto Testing until I read a blog post about how the FarmVille creators use it. One of the biggest parts of…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 21 of 365: What is "wrong" with Widgets and App Stores?There is a huge insurgence of applications that do a single thing and do it extremely well. They can be served up as a single embeddable object, a…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Using a Google Talk Gadget for your DomainI have found that I am increasingly relying on Google Talk to get things done quickly. It is like I have been thrust right back into my days with…
- Question 20 of 365: What should we relentlessly pursue?I have made the case for pursuing lots of things: happiness, authenticity, purpose, truth, scalability, integration, and I’ve probably…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 19 of 365: Is Social Media trying to turn your life into a movie?I hope this question is not too flippant or ridiculous as to simply be cast to the side because I think it may be an important one. As I was…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 18 of 365: Why is there such intense competition to manage your projects?It seems like every single day I run across another new way to do project management or collaboration with a team. It seems as though everyone…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Morgridge Family Foundation PresentationI am doing a 10 minute session today at an event for the Morgride Family Foundation. I was asked to do something on the topic of Project-based…
- Question 17 of 365: Which questions can't Google answer?Google wants to chronicle all of the known information in the world. In fact, it is one of their stated goals that they are always going to look…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 16 of 365: Can we Open Source our way out of a tragedy?As I continue to hear more and more stories from Haiti in the aftermath of the worst earthquake in over two centuries, I realize that more people…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 15 of 365: How do we form our Digital Habits?I’m sure that many of our digital habits would qualify as addictions. Whether that is tweeting, texting, googling, emailing, or simply youtubing;…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 14 of 365: What is the future of outsourcing?I do not claim to be an expert in outsourcing, nor do I claim to know all of the terrible (and good) things that have come from an acceptance of…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 13 of 365: What does it mean to be an Expert?In a world where the network is what matters, where being able to tap into knowledge that is distributed and widespread is valued, what does it…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 12 of 365: Which words cause us to act?Action is a relative term. Is action the clicking of a button on a webpage? Is action the filling out of a form? Is action telling a friend or…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 11 of 365: Why does the world need perpetual beta?Image via Wikipedia Beta testing used to be something that a few early adopters did. It used to be a big deal to be a “beta tester.” I remember…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 10 of 365: What does Open mean?Image by D’Arcy Norman via Flickr Right now there is a heated debate going on about what Open Education is and should be. Mark Weller, George…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 9 of 365: Does the screen dictate what is possible?This year may be the year of the smart phone. It may be the year of the tablet or ebook reader. It may even be the year of networked (not network)…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 8 of 365: What's in a name?Starting something new is much easier than coming up with a good name for that new thing. Whether that is a business, an educational model, or…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Questions 7 of 365: Why are we still looking for new ways to answer our questions?People have been asking questions for a lot longer than I have expertise to comment on (as many of you know, I am not an anthropologist,…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 6 of 365: What happens when your Digital Footprint becomes a liability rather than an asset?Everyone has a digital footprint that could get them into trouble. No matter how careful you are, if you are posting things online, they represent…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- #BDNT January 2010Here I am again at Boulder/Denver New Technology Night at CU Boulder. I am here with my new partner for SpeedGeek Learning, Ashton Honnecke.…
- Question 5 of 365: How can you eliminate noise within your network?I am constantly reminded of just how many people are following one another. Daily I get messages from twitter telling me about someone new who is…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 4 of 365: Which is better: Scalability, Sustainability or Reframablity?I have thought a lot about how important scalability is for the success of a project, company, or idea. I have long held that unless a project is…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 3 of 365: Where are our mass shared experiences in a world of niches?There is something about the Mash finale or The Beatles first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show that will never be replicated. They were…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 2 of 365: What is the critical mass of a community?I could give a concrete answer based upon the psudo-science of online community building, or an enigmatic answer that really doesn’t reveal a…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer
- Question 1 of 365: Why is Augmented Reality Important?I have been thinking about this question a lot lately, especially because so many others are pointing to it as the next big thing. What I really…365 Questions That Google Can’t Answer