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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

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And Now For Something Completely Positive

Are you getting tired of my Facebook catfishing rants? Too bad, they won’t stop until I get some answers. But here, something that is in the good news category, via twitter. G5 Bulgarian language students learn how to use @cogdog's Flickr tool for Creative Commons citations at @AAS_Sofia pic.twitter.com/plrcvVOaZd — Shary Marshall (@sharymarshall) February 25, […]

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Meet Halle Gottfried…

Meet Halle Gottried (pronounced MA-lee GAHT-fryd) on Facebook Fakebook WTFbook. Chief Engineer on an MSC (Mediterranean Shipping Company) container ship, he studied Engineering Science and Mechanics at Georgia Institute of Technology College of Sciences. When not on the high seas, he lives in New York City. According to someone he communicates with– I will call […]

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The Catfish I Remember

My fury over Facebook Catfishing was still simmering in the morning (I am far from done). And then, by some kind of weird sort of cosmic serendipity, the song I heard playing on my iPod (one of 4000+ songs randomly shuffled) was the sign Catfish by Bob Dylan. How is this even possible? I heard […]

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A Catfishing Page

Tonight I got another distraught and ashamed email (“You must think I’m stupid”) (No I do not). This message someone who just had the veil lifted from their eyes and found they were a victim of a catfishing scam from a fake person wearing my photos. I decided to copy Alec Corous and set up […]