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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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Comic Adventures of Bavaman and Norman!

So you can’t get enough twitter action of the smackdowns of Reverend Jim “Bavaman” and his sidekicked D’Arcy Bike Wonder Norman? The Cabed Blogsader abhors anyone who dares to change out their blog theme, especially Norman! Stay tuned as the story unfolds! Make your own addition to this talke at http://www.batmancomic.info/

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Mind Flips

cc licensed flickr photo shared by Zach Dischner Did you ever have one of those experiences where you were struggling with a problem, and somehow your mind completely flipped it around to a solution you could never see on the first side? It’s more than a light bulb going off, it’s like turning your brain […]

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Memory Mapping

Stephen Downes highlighted today one of those wonderful simple ideas that can go (and has gone) a long way. In An Idea That Keeps Growing Doug Peterson shows how his simple idea took off– to use online maps to create a walking tour of the place he grew up. As Stephen suggested where he plotted […]

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Aunt Martha

I spoke to my Mom last night, one of our almost weekly phone calls. It was a bit ominous when she called me at 8:00am this morning… she shared the sad news that my Aunt Martha had passed away. She lived alone in Baltimore. Ten days ago, the people who clean her place found Martha […]

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On Video… and the box

Bear with me on what my unravel as a long strand here, Im trying to weave into one a stream that’s been flowing all day. Never one to write in that organized a fashion, I see a path:

  • celebration of some incredibly original, creative video forms- and I want more;
  • reading something way out my normal scope; which leads me to
  • an incredible video experience about a box, but its more than the video;
  • and speaking of the mystery box;
  • the overarching reach of an education connection.

Are you ready? Please place your minds into the upright and locked open position…

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Chrome Dog (króm hundur)

cc licensed flickr photo shared by mrphancy I’ve been a few weeks into using Google Chrome, and sorry Old Fox, the shiny metal is looking and feeling good. With Firefox, it was a long running period of spending time I’d rather be browsing waiting for Mac Beachballs to stop spinning, or that pause when a […]

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The Place for Short Comments

cc licensed flickr photo shared by JPLatting from the idle wonderings department…and summoning my best Andy Rooney voice Did you ever notice…. how short/brief flickr comments are? “nice photo” “Awesome!” “great shot” — heck you could fit 4 or 5 in a single tweet. Think about it- a good meaty blog post (the kind not […]

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TEDxNYED-ed

cc licensed flickr photo shared by aliceskr It’s been rattling around in the grey matter since Saturday, an un-organized strand of thoughts about the TEDxNYED event— and lacking a clever title, I made it a past tense verb (and that is something I expect no one to even spot as clever). Just to set the […]