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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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Pivot MOOC

With all the buzz about the Grand MOOC Pivot of Saint Sebastian that word could not help but transport me back to my 1970s youth and the classic game of Pivot Pool (I had this game, but to date, have never had a real pool table). cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared […]

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65 Pencils

cc licensed (BY) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog A drawing for today’s ds106 daily create: Repeat TDC613! Draw something that represents the TDC idea of regular exercises of creativity. We asked a few weeks ago for some images to represent this idea and they now appear as random ones on the front of the Daily […]

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The Dog is Back

Tomorrow marks 6 weeks since I have had my feet up on the rail at home; and finally perched again, it might was well have been 6 months. Unlike previous travels, I made little time for blogging (the photos were regular), I sloughed off on doing Headless ds106 work, and now I am bewildered by […]

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Manzanita Pens

cc licensed (BY) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog I am so excited to open the package from Andy Mckiel. I had seen his photos of arbutus trees, and commented about the similarity of the arbutus I had seen in BC cc licensed ( BY SA ) flickr photo shared by Alan Levine with the manzanita […]

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Shuttleworthy?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ3gFPbUCDE UPDATE: Nov 5, 2013 It took ’em less than a week to say “Sorry Charlie” (I got my short “thanks for all the fish” message)– I am not surprised, as I did not feel this idea was really that big or even coherent. What might be a better backdrop for a shaky hand held […]