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Server Room 404… With Personality
If you have been on the web more than (fill in the blank with a short amount of time) you know the feeling when you click and find yourself greeted […]
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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Using TRU Writer for a Portfolio for Published Work
In a bit of a self test, I am using the TRU Writer SPLOT tool to build a collection of papers I have published: This is a little different from […]
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Is Bob’s Web Site the Future Geocities?
I was just looking around on the web. No, not really wandering, In prep for an upcoming talk where I want to put the web of 1996 in context, I googled for popular Songs of 1996 (notice the typo!). Note the top result, above Wikipedia, above some commercial site: As it turns out, this site […]
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Screencasts With QuickTime Player, Soundflower, and Ladiocast
For the You Show this week I wanted to provide some demos for folks who could not turn up for our Audacity demo sessions (which turned out to be everyone but two people, Gail and Joseph, you guys are the best). I had one I did a few years ago for ds106 where I had […]
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Playing the Web Walkback Game
Here’s a game I play on the web. There are metric tonnes of sights that gather curious / interesting / weird stories be it mentalfloss, neatorama, Random Good Stuff, Holy Kaw… It must be a business, track eyeballs for advertisers, make stuff spreadable, hoping it hits the viral google juiced jackpot. Pretty much they sift […]
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Inside the RSS Magic Box
Wow, I thought I had written this up somewhere, but because Ken asked, and he is doing cool stuff with his Connected Course… Can anyone share the code for the Magic Box #CCourses http://t.co/lv3QFzS45M @cogdog @mburtis @timmmmyboy ? — Ken Bauer Favel (@ken_bauer) February 11, 2015 What is the Magic Box? Not much magic, but […]
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We Are Lesser World Without George, Without GeoDuckie
The word came via Bryan Alexander’s blog last night that a great spirit of curiosity, interest, creativity has left this world, note of it too on his daughter’s blog. George has gone through numerous health challenges; the photo above was from the time in 2011 I was doing my long odyssey trip and visited and […]
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A Taste of Honey and Cookies
It’s your birthday today Mom, and all I got you was a blog post. Again. I bet you are making cookies, as you do on Sundays. I would call… but I cannot. And no one can enjoy those chocolate chip cookies and what was more valuable, the gift of a bag of your cookies. Mom […]
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Dinosaur Eggs and Web Paleontology
In the summer of 1986 as an undergraduate student in Geology, I got an internship at the Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory. At the time I was on track to likely continue the track on to graduate school, but had not really zeroed in on an interest, but on that seemed to have my interest was paleontology. […]
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Sky Rider
This bot of metal sculpture sits atop a bicycle shelter on the campus of Thompson Rivers University, in Kamloops, British Columbia. I’ve noticed in numerous times since I arrived here three months ago. It has a stylish shape. On this clear day, in mid afternoon, the light was super contrasty strong. I thought that it […]