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Presenting, Reclaiming Your Web, Storying

50 Ways To Tell A Story (at almost 20) Gets the CoolIris Update Treatment

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on March 16, 2026March 16, 2026

I have been head drafting posts (where the ideas just swirl around, sometimes slipping down the drain) I have been contemplating one about my now long path with digital storytelling. That one will be another Long Running Blab for sure. But it also got me thinking about one of the pinnacle things I hatched, spawned […]

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NYT Connections Non Fame: From “CogDogBlog” to “Toothed Wheels Portmanteaux Bull__”

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on March 15, 2026March 16, 2026

And today I felt a rush that the clever editors of the New York Times were big fans of CogDogBlog. It had to be, as I was featured apparently in today’s Connections game (of which I have never seen nor will as its for subscribers). The first clue came in a Mastodon call out from […]

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Blogs are Back! (where did they go?) RSS Makes the Web Bearable (read in my dead reader!)

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on March 14, 2026March 14, 2026

Blogs are Back?! Folks are dusting off their dormant blogs! It’s a new thing! A Revival! Strap yourself in, my three readers, this post is going to be a douzy. Back to blogging, Huh? Who left? Not to brag, but why not, this blog has gone on steadily– HEY WAIT A MINUTE I GOT DATA […]

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[d]e[a]dupunk

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on March 11, 2026March 11, 2026

Edtech zombies may live out there somewhere, but are oft forgotten, maybe now arising out of some obscure LLM garbling, but heck, research papers can summon them too. Who better to shine a light in the creepy fields than Stephen Downes? His March 1o OLDaily post surfaced Open Education Is the New Punk: A Subversive […]

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Inside / Making of Open Education Week

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on March 11, 2026March 11, 2026

Managing Open Education Week, one of my major responsibilities at Open Education Global, is just well sort of over… well not really over as I have managed to munge it out in time beyond the March 2-6 dates. I’ve been recasting it for the last three years but yikes, have yet really to blog about […]

Doing It Daily, Life

#TDC5168 Acrostically Cori #IWD2026

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on March 9, 2026March 9, 2026

For the most recent DS106 Daily Create, a special one (well all 5167 of the other ones are still special) for International Women’s Day. tdc5168 #ds106 Acrostically Her, Poem for International Women’s Day #IWD2026 Today is the 115th International Women’s Day all day, worldwide. Honor one (or more) significant women in your life by making an acrostic […]

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Digital Cleanup: Letting Go of Old Domain Barges

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on March 7, 2026March 7, 2026

A bit late for the monthly round of cleanups, but the mop is out. I have a few legacy domains running WordPress multisite that I am just going to bite my disgust of breaking links and let them go, after making sure they are full rounded up in the Internet Archive. I considered doing the […]

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Old Dog, New Pills, Life

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on February 28, 2026February 28, 2026

Easily voted Best Dog in The Universe, our dog Felix, now pushing 12 human years, gave us a wee scare recently. Breaking the patterns, he had not even come downstairs at dinner time. At bed time, he was laying on the floor, breathing abnormally deep, almost wheezing. He could not seem to lay his head […]

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It Beckons for the Second (month of daily photos in 2026)

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on February 28, 2026February 28, 2026

Another month notched in for not only batting 1.000 for daily photos in 2026 (after a perfect 2025) but not only that, actually getting it done and blogged on the 59th day of the year, aka February 28. More self high-fives! In the bank! There’s of course dogs, also foxes, flowers, skies, land, texture, a […]

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Got Slides? PS Club

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on February 28, 2026February 28, 2026

I remain unable to do presentation slides from templates. When they nust happen, out comes the cloak of sarcasm. For her graduate seminar Cori had to lead a session on Poststructualism. As we talked, it just became ironic to think of doing a linear progress of Bullet Point Slides. We jumped to a club concept […]

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