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Group Project: tell us about your very first blog⤴

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Image from the Blaugust Discord channel and community

During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge.

Last year I wrote a post about my blogging journey as part of the Reclaim Hosting #blogging4life initiative. and I also wrote a guest post for them about my beloved Daily Create. I don’t want to repeat any of that again, so suffice it to say that this IS my very first blog, though I have moved it from being a WordPress.com hosted site in 2012 to being self hosted in 2016. It’s eclectic – I describe my approach as ‘rhizomatic bricolage’ which really just means whatever I feel like writing at the time. I make no apologies for that 🙂 Because of my interests then many of my posts will focus on educaation – and, at the moment, I am pushing myself to make a blog-worthy version of the Daily Create each day.

Silly Solage⤴

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During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge.

Today’s TDC asks us to

Make a silly solage

A silly solage is a happy poem of three lines, two of them as long as you dare, the third is one word. The third word is surprising and silly.

As far as I can tell this is a form of poetry just made up by Kathryn Apel as I can’t find it elsewhere in an internet search. She describes them as a type of joke, but mine’s more of a definition than a joke:

I like to be in the way
At all times of the day
CAT

Less working, more stroking
Less working, more stroking flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Add AI to an Unexpected Product⤴

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During the month of August I will be participating in Blaugust, a month long blogging challenge.

HapGPT
HapGPT flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license modified with File:AI-Check.svg wikimedia commons image by Subilan shared under CC0 and additional text

Today’s TDC asks us to:

Look around and find an everyday object that could use some AI added to it. Create an advertisement image that extols its virtues in the new age.

I chose a photo of a Shetland Lace Hap I made earlier this year from a traditional pattern, streched out on the hap stretcher that N made for me. I then downloaded the  AI-Check image linked in the TDC and used PPT to add it to the image. I wrote some text in the spirit of the example Alan had shared, and added that to the slide:

HapGPT is here.

Shetland Lace Haps have been made by hand from traditional patterns since the 19th Century, with patterns passed down by word of mouth.
Now new technology can take all of the pleasure out of knitting.
Expect mangled instructions and patterns that do not work.
All for a very reasonable monthly fee of £300 pcm

Then I screen shot the slide and uploaded it to Flickr so I have it in my files and can use Alan’s Flickr attribution bookmarklet (which saves me seconds as it does it all for me). The result is at the top of the page.

Blaugust 2026⤴

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As today is the last day of my holidays I’ve been trying to suck every last minute of my freedom – but the heavy rain this afternoon thwarted my plans for one last walk and confined me to the house. As I mooched around my various social media haunts I remembered that I’d seen a link to sign up for Blaugust 2026, so here’s my intro post. In case you don’t know:

Blaugust is a month-long event that takes place each August which focuses on blogging primarily and has started to include other forms of serialized content over the last several years. The goal is to stoke the fires of creativity and allow bloggers and other content creators to mingle in a shared community while pushing each other to post more regularly. Above all the goal of Blaugust has always been to prove to folks that they can in fact sit down every day and create something fresh and then share it with the world.

Well, I do like a daily challenge – and recently I’ve been blogging some of my Daily Creates here, but sometimes not till a couple of days later and sometimes not at all. So my intention for August 2026 is to complete the TDC each day in a way that I’ll be happy posting it to my blog and sharing it with the Blaugust community – and hopefully some other Ds106ers will also be joining in. If you want to join, the sign up form is here.

Which Wikipedia are you?⤴

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Today’s TDC asks us to take a quiz and share the results. Here’s mine.

Wikipedia of the Future_ The Data-Driven Researcher
Wikipedia of the Future_ The Data-Driven Researcher flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license

Wikipedia of the Future: The Data-Driven Researcher

Welcome to the Age of Clarity, or the Age of Balance.

You’re inquisitive, analytical, and maybe a bit too pragmatic, but not to a fault.

Your future is well-thought through and you have the data to back it up. In the future you got, Wikipedia users will be able to travel through knowledge using quantum computing. It will be fully, globally accessible for people with all different abilities. There will be a Wikipedia you can access with different senses — you will be able to smell knowledge.

The internet won’t even be the internet, it will simply be, as part of everything, everywhere. What will you be wearing? We predict some smart glasses and other wearable devices.