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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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Here is a Flickr Trickr

Free tricks. If you have ever downloaded a flickr photo or come across in blogs a link to the image URL, it will be something cryptic like: 19172144641_71660f5fdb_z.jpg You have no idea who it belongs to, or where it lives in flickr. But there is a trick you can do to back out this info. […]

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Three Little Things

People are out there Disrupting All Industries, Fixing Education, Saving the Environment. I salute the big visions. Me, I like to operate at the other end of the spectrum. The tiny things. Here’s three from just today that may not mean much for changing the world, but are significant to me. (1) I’ve written several […]

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Fishing For Prompts

A few clicks ago, my friend/colleagued Geoff tweeted a suggesting for #NaNoWriMo participants to use prompts from his Vermont Young Writers Project (a great project itself) https://twitter.com/ggevalt/status/654631950918021120 Maha Bali picked up on this as a resource, and I piped in about offering ones I have used before for setting up DS106 Daily Creates. If you […]

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Memory Walk To School

I was out of ideas so for today’s UdG Agora Daily Try I went back to the well of DS106 Daily Create number 932 on July 28, 2014: From Memory, Draw The Path Traveled to Your First School Go back to your first days of school; draw a map of the epic journey to get […]