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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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What Does That YouTube Button Do?

According to sources, one of these buttons has been on YouTube videos for maybe 18 months, and I never clicked it, can you guess? That one on the right, looks like a menu? Quick quiz, what does it do? I’ve seen it for a while and shamefully never clicked. Woah Neo, woah. It’s “Interactive Transcripts”- […]

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Twitter Twins

Here is my new pointless game when I am scanning Tweetdeck. It all started a few weeks ago when I noticed that successive tweets of Tim Owens and Ewan Macintosh were eerily similar. Similar pose, hair color, background, even the same colored shirt. So I grabbed a screen shot (I regret not grabbing their tweets […]