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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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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 […]

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The Revolution is Now Blogged

Yesterday I was on stage as the opening act for the 2010 Canadian eLearning Conference hosted at the University of Alberta, with a new show I had conjured “Join the Secret Revolution“. The presentation is on Speakerdeck: While not televised, the revolution was recorded The Secret Revolution idea was spawned by the rEvolution theme of […]

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Dad’s Here

I’ve not been able to directly say Happy Father’s Day since 2001; that year I think I was on the road in Australia and he was home in Florida hanging out with cancer, before passing away in August. I had brought him  an Aussie belt cc licensed flickr photo shared by cogdogblog My mom ended […]

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It’s Raining eBooks

cc licensed flickr photo shared by JanneM You can barely spit anymore and not hit a blog or twitter message with someone announcing their new eBook. My hats are off to people who go down that long road of writing- it definitely takes a lot to write something in long form; I by no means […]

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Award for Sloppiest Email Spam Ever

I mean c’mon, if you are going to the effort to run bots to spam and phish me, at least try to be convincing! The CogDog judge gives this a -1 for effort and a 0 for originality. How many hours were sent crafting: To: undisclosed recipients; Subject: our Email ID has been awarded 1,000,000.00 […]