Because I use it almost daily, I have to admit that my favorite tool I built is the flickr CC Attribution Helper which makes attributing Creative Commons licensed flickr photos a one click copy / paste operation. The thing about attribution is that there are no fixed rules for how to do it, and if […]
You’ve likely come across the most common suggestion for fixing a computer problem. A related precedent is one I remember from the screens of my era- those old vacuum tube powered TVs. Quite often the way to fix a problem was not the restart, but a slap on the side. My little plastic one I […]
Walking home from my friend’s Christmas dinner I was thinking, of all things, about how tired people seem to be of social media and the web, and a lot of resignation to how eff-ed up it can feel. Many of the blogs I relished reading have just gone dark, un-updated in my RSS Reader. And […]
Dear ___________, I had grand(iose) intentions of sending you a traditional holiday card. I sent out 12 of them, but sadly, your name was farther down the list in my contacts, and I ran out of stamps. I also ran out of non-pithy variations of what I could write above/below the pith salutations in store-bought […]
Hi there CogDogBlog readers. Alan went outside and has been gone a while, but he left his laptop open. I see him blogging here all the time and thought I would give it a try. Yes, I am Felix. Maybe you have seen one of my 600 photos Alan has posted on flickr this year? […]
Since the end of September our team has run 10 weekly Creative Commons (CC) related activities published on this site and to twitter under the #CCquest hashtag. The idea was to create a small challenge around an aspect of CC that could be answered (and shared) in a single tweet. It emerged from our project […]
You get inside your car, turn the ignition switch, hopefully put on the safety belt, maybe turn on the radio or some kind of music player. The engine warms up. When you want to do, which gear to you put it in? A tad obvious, right? Within a few pages of Chapter 3 (“Ideas”) We […]
Word traveling seeds, now is there a metaphor? Back in 2013, Jason Toal blogged a offer to send some sunflower seeds he had harvested in Vnacouver to anyone who commented on his blog. The idea was that when they harvested, they would “seed it forward” to others. And to trace credit, the idea was inspired […]
I do have a pile of things I have dreams of writing about, but my blog queue is not a FILO system. Tonight’s dinner was in front of the RSS Reader, where I was impressed reading Clint Lalonde’s post Of Bikes and Books with his efforts this year to bike ride more, lose weight,and read […]
I cannot offer a rationale explanation why I have spent a chunk of time since Sunday trying to animate a book cover. But I can tell you that once the idea of it materialized in my brain, I could not let it go. Expect another overly long, typo-ridden blog post of explanation. But for now, […]
