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.

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.

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
#tdc2706

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

tdc2185

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.
tdc1992

& Fun

Can on a unicorn, text "I used to be a grumby cat #ds106"
tdc1069

Photo of Bancock skyline with text "Wander where the WiFi is weak" Flickr attribution at the bottom of the photo.

Find the TDC that has been least responded to or ‘Least popular’ (the opposite of https://daily.ds106.us/popular/) and add a response to it. Help it feel the #WildDS106 love!

A convoluted one, I downloaded the rss feeds for the tags from the last 100 #dailycreates and counted the items for each there were none for tdc4993 so I made this. I went through look back through the toots by @creating and lo, there were plenty of replies. It was fun working out how to download 100 feeds & count the items.

Shadows of two people cast on a field of tall grass under a blue sky with clouds.

Repeat a challenge from the original inspiration for the TDC (this site can take quite a while to load)

@creating@daily.ds106.us #tdc5039 #ds106 recycling #ds579 Make a photograph that features a shadow as your subject today.

Had a walk yesterday with my daughter. The skies cleared for a couple of hours.

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

One of the most interesting learning experiences I’ve had on or off line is DS106 a hard to describe course in digital story telling.

I’ve attached my self to a group of students veterans that are presenting at the Reclaim Open 2025 Conference, Rewilding the Network. Part of this presentation consists of blog posts around the daily create part of DS106. These are being gathered on Combobulating – Making New Connections

From my blog history I seem to have started being involved in DS106 around 2011:

So I’ll be writing a few posts around the topic over the next week or two. This one is just to see if the syndication1 on DS106 picks up my post tagged wildDS106 when my feed gets added.

  1. On of the most important things I learnt from DS106 is the power of RSS and syndication ↩︎