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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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Three Dog Week

Three Dog Week by cogdogblog posted 16 Mar ’09, 7.23pm MDT PST on flickr It’s a dog filled house now! I am dog-sitting for friends who went on a road trip. Looking up is Thumper, surrounded by Bobo (left) and Sufi (right) Meet the Crew! First, is noble “Bobo”… Followed by sweet “Sufi” and rounded […]

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sometimes it gets personal…

speechless by serhio posted 18 Jun ’08, 9.30am MDT PST on flickr Words are awfully cheap now, they fly around at near light speed (not really, this is metaphor land). They go farther then ever, to unintended places, and thanks to the google-bot, they are out there for a long time. And we don’t see […]

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There Must Be Some Tags Out There…

cc licensed flickr photo by Erik K Veland Sometimes tagging is a lonely game, other times it is a wild lalapalooza fest. That’s the way the net bounces. Without going too deep into a zone of vacacity (!), I’m seeking some help tagging resources, examples, references related to the 6 topics to be published next […]

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Save a Word by Adoption

2009/365/63 Adoption Papers by cogdogblog posted 4 Mar ’09, 7.58pm MST PST on flickr Adoption is a serious consideration, one that requires planning. This is certainly not the case today. Be almost sheer accident, today I stumbled into Save The Words (Nancy White tweeted a ning site about visual poetry and I found the link […]

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I’m a Visual Poet / Didn’t Know It

Visual Poetry with phrasr by cogdogblog posted 4 Mar ’09, 7.58pm MST PST on flickr Oh this flickr based site was way too much fun. Read my deep philosophical poem here www.pimpampum.net/phrasr/?id=15932 With phrasr, you enter a phrase to illustrate, and for each word, it provides a photo from flickr. You can choose to swap […]