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Buried Toys

Archiving, Blogging, Conferencing, On Openness, On Sharing

18 Years Later Echoes of a VoiceThread, not from the Grave

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on April 24, 2025April 26, 2025

Strap your self in for another wild old crazy link tour, real audio echoes from the web past, and an anomaly of a free web storytelling tool that not only is around after a start 8 years ago, but quite useful. This web rabbit hole goes deep, deep, deep, including some browser source inspection of […]

Blogging, This Old Web

Ignore. A Launch Over the ActivityPub Test Range

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on April 17, 2025April 17, 2025

Indeed, this post is a test. With the move of this olde barge of a blog from Reclaim Hosting’s shared hosting to Reclaim Cloud, the WordPress Activity Pub seems not to by firing out via @barking@cogdogblog.com in Mastodon. On the publishing side, I see the WordPress wheels spinning in the process, but it never completes. […]

Blogging, Reclaiming Your Web, Wordpress

CogDogBlog Now Revving Engines Cloud Powered

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on April 15, 2025April 15, 2025

Hey, it’s a tiny post, just like 2004 days. Short. Sweet. If you are actually reading this post, not just clicking a like button, you hopefully notice a bit more “zip” to it? Like a purring sports car engine. Like… …being now hosted in Reclaim Cloud. It was maybe a year or more ago, when […]

Coding, Cool Tool Fool, On Sharing

More Fixes for the Free to Use Browser Extension, Dispenser of Random PD Image

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on April 14, 2025April 14, 2025

I get a little grumpy when I open a new browser tab and am not greeted by a random public domain image from the Library of Congress. It’s like someone taking a knife to my IV drip of small joys. This is enabled by a little gizmo I have taken under my tech wing, the […]

Experiments, Rants

Creation as Deletion: A Dozen #ErasedAmerica Photos

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on April 13, 2025April 13, 2025

My favorite act of creation after many many globe spins, still remains photography, whether it was on film in the old days to digital cameras to now often the mobile phone camera. I have claimed somewhere? nowhere? That photography, like and yet unlike say Blackout Poetry, is creation by deletion. How? In taking/making a photograph, […]

Archiving, Blogging, Reclaiming Your Web

Cleaning Up, Moving Piles Around the Webhouse

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on April 10, 2025April 10, 2025

For reasons to be seen soon, I am tending to some domain cleanup. Okay, I am moving this blog from shared Reclaim hosting to their cloud hosting. Over 20+ years with this tank/barge a lot of stuff has piled up that can be better left in a quieter corner. Mainly it’s because for at least […]

Blogging, Wordpress

WordPress Serving Posts at the Activity Pub

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on April 6, 2025November 5, 2025

There’s times when I sit down at this here new post page thinking I have something to write about… and find out I have already done so. Well, the thing is open so I can add a bit more wood to the post pile. Just in February I wrote about a fleet of WordPress sites […]

Doing It Daily, Photography

Got Three (months of daily photos)

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on April 3, 2025April 3, 2025

You know the old saying, right? March, in at 60 and out at 90? Huh? Days of the year! That’s right, I made it in this years Daily Photo Act of Obsession to get to 3 months with no strikes. In 2024 I got this far and daily-ed into mid April before it went POOF. […]

Memories, On Web Rabbit Holing, Random Musing

Following the Rumpled TV Detective in the Brown Trenchcoat Down The Web Rabbit Hole

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on March 29, 2025March 29, 2025

Here I go again. That darn crazy internet. One link catches sparkles my curiosity. I’ll just click and peek. I swear I won’t get distracted and start looking things up in weird archive. Just one more click… Two hours later I emerge from the rabbit hole smiling. And later I go back to where I […]

Cool Tool Fool, Ideas

Just Click the Buttons They Give You? Or Make Gizmos like a Mastodon Archiver

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on March 26, 2025November 5, 2025

Likely a mis-applied generalization, but in a few different education spheres I am sensing that both the overload of new tech and the adoption of pre-built systems are contributing to a decline in the will/awareness to look being what an interface presents us. Thus the shiny front allure of GenAI to vibe the work for […]

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