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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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Tag or Be Tagged?

cc licensed flickr photo shared by ~Aphrodite After all these years (this march will be the 7th) I still love flickr most of all what has become Web 2.0 – the Vancouver crew that fortunately failed on Game Never Ending (that explains the .gne extensions on some of the flickr URLs) for it right on […]

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Card Carrying Agent

I found the site that creates these fun ID cards a while ago (it probably came from the Generator Blog), but yes, I am a card carrying Agent. I might be armed. Or pawed. Of course this may not quite as good as Scott Leslie‘s real business card that says “Shit Disturber”.

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One Thing Leads to Another (via Words)

Thanks to Alec Couros for tweeting about this video, that plays with an interesting style of fast cutting disparate video segments by their connection over words. It’s an interesting exercise to follow the visual/video representation of words in such quick jumps. Apparently this was done as support for a new episode of RadioLab (one of […]

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Group Tweeting as Individuals: ConnectTweet

cc licensed flickr photo shared by Will Pate (the irony of this photo is it pre-dates twitter!) We’re trying out a new strategy/approach/technology for our communication via twitter for NMC. Up to know, for an organization, we have the typical approach of having an “official” account @newmediac (Neil M. Cameron got there first – you […]

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Going With the Flow

Sometimes you have trips with very well defined and choreographed itineraries, where you know what is/should be happening down to some overly detailed level of detail. This week has not been one of those, it’s been more of going with the flow. And that’s ok. A planned trip to visit friends in Monterey was built […]