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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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PLNs and OERs and TLAs make Me Want To…

cc licensed flickr photo shared by cutglassdecanter Me barking (or barfing) about un-necessary (to me) Three Letter Acronyms is nothing new around here. And to be the honest, they cause more shrugs, yawns, than upchucks. Scott knows the sound of my tired old saw startting up. I might be boring myself. But I love this […]

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Eight Years Gone

Even without the handwritten year, photos along can clearly indicate an era. Today marks the day eight years ago that my grandmother passed away; last year I edited a video made from audio I recorded in 1994 and some scanned photos. She was born in 1905, so in this photo of her lounging in Florida, […]

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Tastes Like Beta: Delicious Browsing

Did someone say beta? That really gets my attention when I see it, I just cannot resist a click of curiosity. I don’t know how long this has been on delicious.com, but I am ecstatic to see that the venerable social bookmarking site is still tinkering under the hood. So from what I see, this […]

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The Internet Was Built for Me

cc licensed flickr photo shared by bobtravis That’s me, second from the right. As a kid, I heard a lot of things cast my way (even from my folks) about being a “Smart Aleck” cause I had a snappy, saracastic answer to anything They never defined it, there was no google, so I just had […]