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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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My Yard Told Me a Story

It is May But… by cogdogblog posted 16 May ’09, 6.00pm MDT PST on flickr Usually in May, I see a glorious visual chorus of flowering irises— blues, purples, yellow, reds, and shades in between I did not know existed. Yet today, where I year ago I was snapping photos of blossoms, I see very […]

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Salem State Double Header

I sit brain dead in a plane heading west, home, after a New England road tour with stops at Baruch College in Manhattan, Penn State University, Middlebury Vermont, and wrapping yesterday in Salem, Massachusetts. The stop at Salem was an invited session for their sixth Future is Now conference a semester end gathering for faculty […]

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Only Solar Action is Virtual

GE SmartGrid Virtual Solar Energy by cogdogblog posted 10 May ’09, 8.54pm MDT PST on flickr I’d seen this pass by the stream of cool technologies, but while visiting Bryan Alexander, he printed out the correct picture to generate this fun bit of video projection from the GE Smart Grid site ge.ecomagination.com/smartgrid When you hold […]

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I’m Doing Number 8

From TechCrunch comes Twitter Is Down: 15 Alternative Things To Do: Talk about Twitter being down on FriendFeed Talk about Twitter being down on Facebook Talk about Twitter being down over IM Leave a comment on a blog post about Twitter being down (preferably this one) Talk about Twitter being down via text message Talk […]

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GSearch in GMail is GGreat

New in Google Labs is an add-on for having embedded web search in your email space- this means while composing a message, there is right in the mail interface a search form. The results appear in a GChat pop-up/overlay, and the results can be directly inserted into your message. In this case, I am emailing […]