CogDog The Blog
An early 90s builder of web stuff and blogging Alan Levine barks at CogDogBlog.com on web storytelling (#ds106 #4life), photography, bending WordPress, and serendipity in the infinite internet river. He thinks it's weird to write about himself in the third person. And he is 100% into the Fediverse (or tells himself so) Tooting as @cogdog@cosocial.ca
Blog Pile
The Lazy Bloggers Post Generator (16 years later) (plus crappy AI image)
Holy crap! I just remembered I have not updated this since last month… You would not believe I spend all my time in front of a computer. Apologies to my regular readers! Even the little blue ones!. I am so busy with only your readership as life preserver, being distracted by the shiny, just generally […]
Coding, Cool Tool Fool, Podcasting
One More Thing on Podcast Listening (well maybe two) (or three)
In the spirit of Groomian #BlogOrDie, rather than just append some more ideas to my recent post on podcast listening, why not just blog anew? No rules here except the ones I concoct. Left Of My List I only realized yesterday when I drove for errands, and as usual, flipped on the Overcast player to […]
Small Observations, Teaching
Watching My Doctor Teach
In a last 2024 spurt of Jim Groom #BlogOrDie spirit (hey, bava, where is THE post on that?) more of a small but interesting observation I had (gulp) a month or go on a visit to my doctor. I have to say as well how much I appreciate finding Dr B. While the Canada healthcare […]
On Sharing, Podcasting
Podcast Listening Late 2024 Blog Chain (plus peeking at the uncontrollable ecosystem of data)
Gotta love a spontaneous series of posts. This began with Bryan Alexander sharing his late 2024 podcast listening habits -kudos for both his non-diminishing blogs style and attributed reuse photos, sometimes mine. And this is not his first of this topic. This was picked up perhaps in the socials and chain blogged by Doug Belshaw […]
On Sharing, Random Musing, Rants
My Store is Open For Business- As Usual it will Make me no Money
Be giving away everything I’ve tossed on to the web for not only free, but without really any requirements, I have mastered opposite of a knack for web entrepreneurship. I refuse to use that word that turns money into a verb than a longer noun. Here is my latest version of un-capitalistic strategies This is […]
Connectedness, How To
Roll Your Own Mastodon Starter Kits
It looks like there is a crowd rush to jump from The Platform I will Only Ever Call Twitter to Bluesky. Huge numbers. Much because there is no learning curve. It looks and feels like Twitter not so olde. But also, folks are finding the just add water to the instant mix of the Bluesky […]
On Openness, On Sharing, Photography
Look! PD12M! 12 Million Public Domain Image Data Set, Truly Open, and Including A Mouse
The best web gems are ones you find while looking for something else. While following some links on AI data sets I fell into Source.Plus PD12M “a highly aesthetic image-text dataset with novel governance mechanisms.” At 12.4 million image-caption pairs, PD12M is the largest public domain image-text dataset to date, with sufficient size to train […]
Podcasting
[Almost] Cracking the Nut on Listening to YouTube Stuff on a Podcast Catcher
Hey, I have another blog post in my drafts to finish, but now something intervenes. Gotta blog it before I bleep it out in the socials. Through that Grand Old Technology That Everyone Pretends is Dead But They Are Dead Wrong and from his Mastodon posts too, I know that Jim Groom and Michael Branson […]
On Openness, On Sharing, Random Musing
From Keynote in Brisbane Australia to Rye, Arizona via a Wikipedia enabled rabbit hole
Stay with me intrepid, devoted, or robotic scraping readers. I’ve got an associative trails journey to lay out here, all of which is made possible by the free, open web, the people who build onto it chunk by chunk, and the sheer joy of exploration. A highlight for me from last month’s OEGlobal 2024 Conference […]