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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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The StoryBox is Open

I just created a new page to explain and invite participating in the StoryBoax/PirateBox idea sketched out earlier — you can see the info at the project’s new home http://cogdogblog.com/storybox/. it has instructions there on how you can contribute to the project via a dropbox site, just in case I do not cross paths with […]

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Audio Books as Audiobooks

In preparation for my upcoming long road time, I’ve been organizing some audio books to fill some of the time/space. There is a veritable bag of gold from the Internet Archive. I also found a decent selection of free (public domain) Adventure Audio Books. A small problem with them is that these are really a […]

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Salute to Scottlo

(one last post before I exit for camping!) For those in the ds106 Radio fold, this week’s drama has been the reported demise of our New/Old Radio Friend, Scottlo. The “death” part being a bit downloayed, it has been a fascinating thing to watch unfold as he (Scottlo? Otto? Frank?) examines, reinvents, who he is […]

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Gone Camping

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog It’s time to shut the lid and go offline. I’m going to pack up the camping gear, the kayak, and head up to Knoll Lake on the Mogollon Rim, to enjoy some mellow time. Might be back tomorrow, or Tuesday, or …. This is a […]

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Real Virtual Connections

cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog We often frame our ideas about the virtual/online spaces we inhabit as being separate, across some boundary from, the real ones we inhabit- we go binary, either/or, on/off, black/white. Like the image above, I find it not so neatly define, it is a swirl. Bear […]

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My Lucky Coin

cc licensed (BY) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog The smiling hippy chick behind the counter at the restaurant on Nelson handed me my change. "Oh look, you get a lucky dollar coin" (coy smile). Sure, I am in Canada, and people have that "nice" thing going, so I’m ready to believe. And their money is […]

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I’m in Your Mailbox

cc licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo shared by sayhellotojessica Well, actually I wont be there unless you ask. I’ve had some people request a means to get updates from here via email, namely for the upcoming road trips. Yeah, e-mail. that dead thing. I looked at adding a subscription plugin (likely Subscribe2), but […]

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Web Story- Elliminate: Dead!

Don’t ask me why I tooled around in Firebug, but my sarcasm spot sure needed some itching. I was looking at some of the works done for the web story assignment in Martha’s ds106 session (wither the URL for the class blog?). I was wondering if this time I could do the whole thing in […]

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Google Guitar Hero

When I first saw (or correctly, when Ninmah sent me the link) Google’s home page today, first reaction, was “nice graphic”- a guitar version of the logo. Then I moved my mouse. The graphic made a noise. OISOME! The logo makes sounds. But wait, there’s more. You can record your sounds at a URL you […]