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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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A Day in the Life

cc licensed flickr photo shared by Pink Sherbet Photography Yesterday Martin Weller, in the midst of writing his book on Digital Scholarship, wrote up a narrative of his day to track his working day and uses of technology. In the summary, he notes the mix of personal and work lives intertwingling while he does this […]

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Mom Gives Wired Thumbs Down

On last year’s visit, Mom was caught up in reading the Wired issue on “Vanished” www.flickr.com/photos/cogdog/4139016457/ But she and I agree, the Boob issue sadly shows the poor decision to pander to low brow tastes. I have no problem with seeing boobs, but if they cannot sell magazines based on the strength of their writing, […]

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In Which I Paw Around with Definitions

cc licensed flickr photo shared by Horia Varlan When a discussion veers into debates of definitions of terms, my yawn reflex usually kicks into gear, so its with some trepidation (and concerns of comments lambasting my hypocrisy so I am claiming it now). Like many I get muddy whether I cam referring to something as […]

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Dogging Out of NaNoWriMo

cc licensed flickr photo shared by RaGardner4 It was overly grand ambition (or stupid ass planning) that got me thinking I could do NaNoWriMo again this year. I’m bailing. And of course I do not need to apologize (especially as most likely no one will even notice). I’ve already got enough on the plate every […]

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It’s Not Really Sharing When the Default Is Not

cc licensed flickr photo shared by Roberto Rizzato â–ºpix jockeyâ—„ Facebook resident Let’s stop politely nodding and play lip service to sharing content. Let’s stop doing sort of sharing, like sort of pregnant. You do or you don’t. And save the trotted our excuses, “most people don’t know about creative commons”, “the default is turned […]

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Dental Quasi-Parable

I so so much dig blog posts from Clay Burrell like his weaving a less than glowing Blackboard experience into a story The Tailor – A Parable. He pulls zero punches but also brings his point home in oblique creative ways. While I was pretty sure what a parable was, a check in was worth […]