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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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Arizona Government Stupidity in Action

2009/365/62: Short Sighted Government Stupidity in Action by cogdogblog posted 3 Mar ’09, 10.54pm MST PST on flickr Hmmm, I’ve been waiting for a local cause and here it is. The far seeing Arizona state legislature has slashed $35 million from state parks, which are closing like falling dominoes across the state. Tonto Natural Bridge […]

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Paperwork/Network

2009/365/60: Downed by Paperwork by cogdogblog posted 1 Mar ’09, 9.48pm MST PST on flickr In valiant attempts to get campus wireless access for me at Baylor, Gardner went to the extremes to work the channels. I had to provide my home address, phone number, forms were faxed, we went to the IT office, phone […]

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Spinning Discs at Baylor

2009/365/58: One Turntable by cogdogblog posted 27 Feb ’09, 10.38pm MST PST on flickr Baylor University Ray I. Riley Digitization Center. I got a nice tour today of their equipment. See www.baylormag.com/story.php?story=006232 This is a special audio lab set up for the The Black Gospel Music Restoration Project contentdm.baylor.edu/cdm4/index_03gospel.php?CISOROOT=/03… Gardner Campbell, my host, had a […]

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Presentation Bar Props

2009/365/55: Presenter/Bar View by cogdogblog posted 24 Feb ’09, 9.43pm MST PST on flickr The topic of the presentation I did today for the EDUCAUSE Southwest Regional Conference with Susan Zvacek (University of Kansas) was Balancing Acts: Making IT Work for Everyone. We took an alt presentation route to present this via a three act […]

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Giving Up

August 30th–It’s True. by Jessica DeWinter posted 7 Sep ’07, 2.22am MDT PST on flickr Freed from the shackles of corporate America. Hah, not what you think. Not that I *know* what you think. One of the interesting re-threads I heard at Northern Voice this year was the navel gazing equivalency of blogging about blogging, […]

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VoiceThread Blogging at NV2009

I may be pre-emptive, but am hoping again to try blogging the Northern Voice conference experience in images and audio using VoiceThread, like I did last year. Uploaded images (or ones sucked in from flickr) can then easily be augmented with audio, and if you create a free VT account, you can chime in as […]

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Stingy Facebook Gets None of My Media

2009/365/47: Facebook FAIL by cogdogblog posted 16 Feb ’09, 10.05pm MST PST on flickr Even before the rounds of flack today. about Facebook’s Terms of Services, I’ve contended that Facebook is Stingybook with media — it will suck in your media (flickr, YouTube) etc, do with it what it wants, and then it does not […]