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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 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 […]

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First Diptic

cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog First image made with the iPhone app Diptic (http://www.dipticapp.com/) to create multipane images from phone photos. I grabbed two of my own photos from flickr and upped them to my phone. The side images are from the same photo, just displaced to make for a framing effect Originals […]

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Adopt My Code, Please?

modified from cc licensed flickr photo shared by Lord Jim I’m looking for someone, some group to take over the development for Feed2JS; I’ve taken it as far as I can possibly can. It gets used a lot, more than I think I want to know. The server empties its cache nightly, but I just […]

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Sign of the Blog Times

Dear Blog, I’ve been gone so long you are not familiar with who I am? Who, but myself, can I hold up for blame? Have you forsaken me for another, given my inattention? Stephen has already dropped the Wiley E Coyote anvil sized hint. Yet, as we have talked before, fewer things are lamer than […]

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LearnMobs? DoShops?

cc licensed flickr photo shared by JoseJose I read this morning via Shareable about a growing movement called “Crop Mobs” – rather sounding as much like barn raising, it speaks to people with a shared interest doing things as groups rather than isolated individuals. As described in Shareable…. In the fall of 2008 a group […]