Uh oh. It happened again. Another slide down cogdog rabbit holes of associative trails that cannot be created by any statistical means. It started with a podcast I did not even listen to (until later), one that I saw Wes Fryer post in Mastodon. Wes may have hear his ma talk about The Far Side– […]
So I am listening to Dave Winer talk about WordPress and The fediverse, and just had to try Wordland and I am now using it to write a post— it’s gonna happen! What happens next? Is it perfectly imperfect?
The first word in that there blog post title is not a verb, not a command, but a noun. An improper noun that is the name of a commercial megamonster corporation that exists to extract more or less Matrix like, the life of its puny little customers. I’ll start from the end, a review in […]
Name a web site that you used in 2012 that has not stopped working one day right up to 2025. I’m waiting, I am patient. Hmmmm. Not coming to you? Well take the DS106 Daily Create which published its very first creative challenge, TDC1 on January 8, 2012 and yesterday, September 22, 2025 published TDC5000 […]
…therefore I still Am. Circling back, and forward from, April 19, 2003. That was 8205 days ago, 5809 posts prior to this. All created, managed, and hoisted on my own blog. Featured image: René Descartes image from Lille norske leksikon (Little Norwegian Encyclopedia) listed as public domain, modified by me with screenshot of my first […]
If July was dicy, in August wheels almost came off the bus for being on track with the this year’s Daily Photo Habit. Photos were indeed taken daily, but they sat idle, and the backlog grew into a big pile attended to in mid September (meaning this month too is slack). But hey, no one […]
Just to keep the blog reflexes flexing, this is a brain dump recap of me having enjoyed a session yesterday being on the Reclaim Hosting video chat session Blogging Community of Practice. Is that the right link or is it this one? Anyhow, Maren and Jim et al invited me to blab about “Blogging in […]
I both wince and smile when I see those proclamations about the web [internet] being broken. I’d like to know the field data that is based upon. To say this confidently, someone would have to visited and explored every single corner of the web. I for one have been exploring for 2 plus decades and […]
I love WordPress. And I love the Fediverse. So together, I love the ActivityPub WordPress plugin that is the magic pixie dust betwxit them. This is an experiment. I published a post here yesterday A[I]s We May Not Think (nor search, nor link), hence autopmatically sent out to the wide fedispace via @barking@cogdogblog.com which was […]
What could be more traditional than the time honored blogging about blogging? Oh, oh, oh, Mr. Kotter call in me! What about blabbing live online about blogging? That’s the beauty oh what is just a part of Reclaim Hosting’s Blogging Community of Practice, notably the “On Writing” series on Reclaim.tv that Jim Groom et al […]
