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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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Take That, Phileas Fogg

modified from Wikimedia Commons public domain image I am not blogging about not blogging about not blogging… but dangerously close seeing the last post dated September 30. Last night I closed had my two week round the world loop, and yes, some 140 years later, I have some speed advantages over Mr Fogg, who to […]

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This is Virtual Worlds

cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog Actually not, but bear with some metaphor swinging from the opposite end of the globe. I’m halfway through a round the world trip for a series of NMC meetings. In the past week, we have run two meetings related to the work of the Horizon Project’s Australia-New Zealand […]

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WIld Woodpecker Ride

cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog I’m about six weeks into my round the world loop, been here in Brisbane, Australia since arriving Thursday. For the long trip and spots of free time, I practiced one of my favorite book selection techniques. I went to the Senior Center Thrift Store in Pine Arizona and […]

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Presenting From Bed

cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog No matter how many titles I created for this post, all of them went the wrong way down innuendo lane. This morning, at 1:00 AM local time on Brisbane, Australia, I gave an online presentation for the KU Village conference… from bed. I agreed to do this almost […]

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Those PLENKing Diagrams

cc licensed flickr photo shared by Lars Plougmann I’m ready. Once again, with the best intentions, I have signed up for a George and Stephen (and others more now) Massively Open Online Course, Personal Learning Environments, Networks, and Knowledge 2010 (PLENK2010). My track record is poor, I easily let this stuff slide off of the […]

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Coming Full Circle: Hello Flickr CC-BY

cc licensed flickr photo shared by mag3737 If anything I might remain consistently inconsistent. After two previous switches, I have reverted my flickr photo creative commons license to the Occam Razor version- BY Attribution. Right back where I started from. It was a little over a week ago, I switched to BY-NC, influenced by the […]

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Theory, Practice, and Stubs

I fell into a link hole. It seems almost more interesting to me when Google does not reveal answers, but offers more riddles. Where is the truth? Out there. Or in there. I saw this rather provocative and clever quote in… of all places, the first issue of Hacker Monthly. That I came by the […]