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In reply to #tdc5054 #ds106 Dial A What?.

The Dial-A-Poem project by Giorno Poetry Systems (from the brain of artist/poet John Giorno) is old school connective tech. You dial the number (1-917-994-8949) and you get a poem read to you. Cool, right? (And it works! I just listened to a poem read to me via US phone service)

What else might work for the Dial-A-? concept?

Make your pitch.

Stole an idea from @dogtrax

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Raven in flight, Black and white

Kilpatrick braes, yesterday, short loop. Low clouds, some drizzle and a few bright spells. Quite warm. Paths like burns after yesterday’s heavy rain. On the first field a buzzard hunting. A couple of ravens appeared & moved it off. After the deer fence, under the trees, I saw them again, or another trio. Again the ravens chased the buzzard off. I could hear them kronk and also making an almost electronic 2 note call I’ve not heard before.

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Read: And He Shall Appear by Kate van der Burgh ★★★★ 📚

Working class boy is dazzled by Cambridge & his magician, occultist “friend”. Page turner, dark academia.

Some people say we’re our true selves when we think nobody is watching. But how do we know our own identities without others’ confirming gaze? If, like the tree falling in the proverbial wood, nobody is around to hear us, is our story a story at all? And when were different things to different people, what then?

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Animated gif of 4 batteries in a box, the name on the batteries is GIF, the colour of the text changes.

Forever

An anmimated gif of a dance scene from The Leopard. Text: The ‹Ds106 Dance goes on #4life

#TDC1968 see also dancing

Dancing

see also personal.

An old photo of an organ grinder with a monkey the grinders fae is replaced by Alan's the monkey by mine.

I’f I’d the skills this would not be a terrible edit and it would be animates. I do dance to a lot of Alan‘s Tunes.

Black and white croud dancing
dancing figures
Dancing couple from the La Dolce Vita movie

I’ve had a lot of fun and learning to make Jim Groom Dance. This is a reasonable example of how ds106 can lead you down strange paths of learning, and community. Jim took this in good part.

Personal

#tdc1919 Celebrity Heads in a Jar | The DS106 Daily Create

Making fun of DS106 leaders can get quite personal, see also socks and dancing.

Competitive

There is a DS106 Daily create score board, I was on the top once:

An animated gif of a stick figure climbing the DS106 top score list.

Political

Animated gif, green circle with text round the edge Vote #DS106 Make America Great again. a man in a ds106 t-shirt dances in the midlle, thsis section is rotating.

Make America Gif Again #tdc2392 #ds106 @jimgroom still dancing;-) See also, dancing, personal

Riffing

One of the best parts of DS106 is what some call remixing & I think of as riffing. Many of these are lost in the depths of delted twitter feeds, but one I recall was record riffing. Which ended up with this:

One of the most delightful things that can happen in DS106 is someone can take what you make and change or improve it, one of my favourites, #tdc1713 Get Your Mozart On: Compose an Imaginary Musical Manuscript | The DS106 Daily Create:

gif of music stabe animated to boince the notes up and dow.

This was much improve by Todd (lost on twitter) and made really musical by Viv.

In another post about this sort of thing I wrote

For me ds106 is a bit like non competitive tennis with self replicating balls that can be played on any court you like with any rules you like with the addition of be nice.

from: Boing – 106 drop in
Animated gif, a heron on the edge of a pond, ducks as a gull flys over. Text: Nervous? - make a gif.
Animated gif of black and white movie of old film, man falls over in the snow wearing snow shooes. Text It is so cold my gif froze.

Features image for #tdc320 using Alan’s photos.

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layered imafe a man looking at a screen from behind. The screen displays the ds106 website.

Or DS106 look back in bewilderment

My path to DS106 is lost in the haze. The First mention this site is animating gifs on a rainy afternoon.

At that point I’d been reading around ds106 for a while.

I suspect my intro came from the flowering of web2.0 in education I was certainly reading Alan in 2006 and remember reading about Jim’s involvement in The Peoples Republic of Non-Programistan.

My first round was most encouraged by this idea: “#tdc2706 #ds106 “Welcome aboard, do what you like and leave the rest.” The Word according to @jimgroom

DS106 Radio logo with dancing jim groom
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Once I started I’ve not really stopped, I’ve participated in several rounds of DS106 classes, finishing some, some not. My responses are scattered over service, Twitter, Flickr, YouTube, mastodon & my blogs. I don’t respond much now, but I try to use my blog for anything I want to keep. DS106 has taught me about the impermanence of the web and how a domain of my own gives me a little stability.

Learning

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I do not think there has been an online experience that has been as educational as DS106. It took me in to podcasting, aggregation, WordPress and more. It gave me the most positive experience of online learning &connection.

A glitched planet surrounded by a swarm of DS106 astroids. Text at bottom right: I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Creative cults attacking the MOOC swarm. #DS106 astroids glitching across distant planets. All those moments will be lost in twitter, like tears in rain.
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& Fun

Can on a unicorn, text "I used to be a grumby cat #ds106"
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