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Western106 Opens With Blog Riding Camp
Tomorrow (or maybe today in some parts of the world, ok January 11), is the first day of our rodeo for Western 106. What are you in for? Well let me tell ya…
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
An Unexpected Affirmation for Why I Teach
Serendipity would have no magic if it did not sneak up on you and lovingly whack you on the side of your normality. On a beautiful Saturday when I ought to be outside playing in the fresh snow, I am instead pounding away at this #%$*@ keyboard working on web sites. Finally, after getting a […]
Rants
On Medium a Title is Often the Entire Story
To totally mangle McLuhan is medium.com the message? Does it control the message? What is the message? I will unfairly pick on one story in my assertion that for a lot of what people publish on medium- the entire arc of the story is contained within a click bait title. And this has a lot […]
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Corralling and TAG Branding #Western106 Tweets
Me: Holy frijole! (slaps head)
I’ve been yawing and yammering out in Twitter Land with the #western106 hashtag and plum forgot to set up a corral collectin’ pen with the Twitter TAGS Tool by
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Apparently A Man Without A Map for #Western106
There shure is plenty of whooping it up out there in the riding pen, with all these folks coming in with all shiny intentions of doing Western106 with this outfit.
Lots of that action is …
Blog Pile
A Tweetdeck Column Trick
It’s very rare that I go to the twitter web interface to read tweets (in their soon to be quaint 140 character limit form); like many I rely heavily on the multiple stream view of columns in Tweetdeck. Left side is my full stream which I barely look at; next is a column for a […]
Wordpress
Brief Moment of MySQL Self High Fiving
You gotta celebrate the small things, right? Self high-fiving for figuring out MySQL query to delete 16,000 un-needed categories from the ds106 site. — Alan Levine (@cogdog) January 6, 2016 What I will detail may likely benefit no one else beyond me should I ever lose my notes. But, writing about the process is… well […]
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Getting Ready for Getting Ready for Western106
This web site is starting to shape up. Today we got in place all the pages, many of them placeholders, for Western 106.
Blog Pile
A Fistful of Western DS106
That’s the classic Man With No Name minimal utterance “Get three more coffins ready” in the clip from Sergio Leone’s spaghetti western masterpiece A Fistful of Dollars (I love how after the gunfight scene that follows he says, as holstering his gun, “My mistake, make it four coffins”). For thinking of a DS106 trailer for […]
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I Love The West
First of all there’s the hats. Then it’s sitting around with a buddy talking about photos. And then heck, we might just go riding off into the sunset. I can’t wait for western106.