{"id":1001,"date":"2013-09-01T21:10:17","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T20:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/?p=1001"},"modified":"2013-09-01T21:10:17","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T20:10:17","slug":"first-week-without-a-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/first-week-without-a-head\/","title":{"rendered":"First Week without a Head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/troutcolor\/9603712126\/\" title=\"Leave nothing but by troutcolor, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;margin:6px\" src=\"https:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5538\/9603712126_a961c8e801_m.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" alt=\"Leave nothing but\"><\/a> I took the first step on my headless journey on the 26, with a quick daily create for <a href=\"http:\/\/tdc.ds106.us\/tdc596\/\">Make an impression: take a picture of an indentation<\/a>. Not a particularly interesting photo, but I like the idea of a first step and you cannot get further from your head than a foot. I managed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/troutcolor\/9632515062\/\" title=\"600 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!\">another<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/troutcolor\/9645960246\/\" title=\"The backside of ds106 | Flickr - Photo Sharing!\">couple<\/a> of photos during the week. <\/p>\n<p>The most interesting, to me, create this week was: <a href=\"http:\/\/tdc.ds106.us\/tdc597\/\">Edit an existing video clip to include an unexpected object in the story<\/a> but I missed the deadline. I did post a quick example of using the <em>bluescreen<\/em>  to <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/110279859127861735447\/posts\/6smTrEa3gyf\">Google+ &#8211; A day late dailycreate, just to show a wee bit of iMovie\u2026<\/a> as that is the sort of thing I&#8217;d want to do given a bit more time.<br \/>\nI deliberately choose daily creates that would not take too much time. I have a strong bias towards photo daily creates, I am not fond of drawing or writing much more than a haiku, but I find that the photo assignments can make me a bit more mindful of the visual environment throughout the day.<\/p>\n<h3>Helping?<\/h3>\n<p>I had put my name down as a a helper for the first week of ds106 and as part of that I decided to do a <a href=\"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/from-one-chicken-to-another\/\" title=\"106 drop in  &raquo; Blog Archive   &raquo; From One Chicken to Another\">short podcast<\/a>, due to lack of prep I though that one was a bit lacking so I <a href=\"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/chicken-talking\/\" title=\"106 drop in  &raquo; Blog Archive   &raquo; Chicken Talking\">hatched a plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>So the plan now is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Over the next 2 weeks of bootcamp I\u2019ll do three or four broadcasts, then try for one a week.<\/li>\n<li>I\u2019ll aim for 10 minutes, with 10 minutes of planning beforehand.<\/li>\n<li>A chicken theme.<\/li>\n<li>More information about this in the next episode.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/chick-01.gif\" style=\"float:right;margin:6px;width:180px\">So far I&#8217;ve managed a couple, <a href=\"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/evidently-not-chickentown\/\" title=\"106 drop in  &raquo; Blog Archive   &raquo; Evidently Not Chickentown\">one of general ds106 stuff<\/a> the second on <a href=\"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/scratching-the-commons\/\" title=\"106 drop in  &raquo; Blog Archive   &raquo; Scratching The Commons\">creative commons<\/a>.<br \/>\nI am hoping these will be of interest to ds106ers in general and perhaps useful to newcomers.<\/p>\n<p>For pretty thin reasons I decided on a chicken theme for the podcasts, with chicken related music and an accompanied with an animated chicken gif. I&#8217;ve managed to hit the 10 minutes prep, 10 minutes broadcast on ds106 radio and 10 minutes post and posting. These are not polished podcasts. It will also give me a chance to play with nicecast. I use this every week over at <a href=\"http:\/\/edutalk.info\/\" title=\"EDUtalk | Audio publishing by educators, using mobile devices\">Edutalk<\/a> but don&#8217;t do much more than fire up skype and record some conversation, adding some iTunes into the mix is a start.<\/p>\n<p>I also <a href=\"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/one-way-to-photo-it-like-peanut-butter\/\" title=\"106 drop in  &raquo; Blog Archive   &raquo; One Way to Photo it Like Peanut Butter\">posted a short screencast on giffing with fireworks<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Helping Myself<\/h3>\n<p>I&#8217;ve pretty much got my blog and various services set up, but I&#8217;ve now added an <a href=\"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/about\/\" title=\"106 drop in   &raquo; About\">about page<\/a> to the blog and have messed about with the css of the theme a little. I&#8217;ve updated the plugins and installed <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.org\/plugins\/jetpack\/\" title=\"WordPress &#8250; Jetpack by WordPress.com &laquo; WordPress Plugins\">jetpack<\/a> to keep a check on how few folk are reading this and add the subscribe to comments by email button. I&#8217;ve appreciated that on other ds106 blogs.<\/p>\n<h3>The hard bit<\/h3>\n<p>Of ds106 is, to my mind, the reflecting, I manage to <a href=\"http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/make-the-wolf-hole\/\" title=\"106 drop in  &raquo; Blog Archive   &raquo; Make the wolf hole\">dodge the main idea and have a bit of fun<\/a> yesterday. I think that found poetry for dodgy auto generated youtube captions could be an assignment.<\/p>\n<h3>Joining in and Joining up<\/h3>\n<p>As usual one of the most interesting things in ds106 is watch other folk. I&#8217;ve been trying my best to keep up with the flow and dropping the odd comment. The difference this time is the google plus community. I feel a wee bit conflicted about this, I can see that some folk love it, it provides another channel for keeping up, discussion and sharing it is also another place to publish media. <\/p>\n<p>But, I think there are a few drawbacks, the comments in g+ are not attached to the post or media they are about. It is hard to keep track of conversations you take part in. Media posted to g+ <a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/7474738\/how-to-embed-video-from-google-plus\" title=\"How to embed video FROM Google Plus? - Stack Overflow\">is difficult, if not impossible<\/a> to embed in a blog post, G+ is another silo that it is difficult to get out of. Overall G+ is worth going to for the people that are there, but I&#8217;d prefer that g+ was a better open web citizen.<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward to week two. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took the first step on my headless journey on the 26, with a quick daily create for Make an impression: take a picture of an indentation. Not a particularly interesting photo, but I like the idea of a first step and you cannot get further from your head than a foot. 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