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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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Treat Me Like a Moron, Please

Red Alert! DEFCON 2! NOT by cogdogblog posted 7 Feb ’09, 9.56am MST PST on flickr It brightens my day when magazines (who are like the dinosaurs at 30 minutes before the end of the Cretaceous period admiring themselves in the mirror) assume I am a moron. Not. I’ve been getting this "urgent" mailing from […]

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TypePad = CrapPad

TypePad Can Kiss My Hairy ____ by cogdogblog posted 4 Feb ’09, 11.36pm MST PST on flickr Good &#*$ing grief! Isn’t enough that I login to TypePad’s TypeKey authentication service? Isn;t enough that I monkey type in the letters in the captcha? And it still chokes on a comment with one freaking URL? TypePad kiss […]

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Not Postal

2009/365/33: Drinking and Picking Up Your Mail Do Not Mix by cogdogblog posted 2 Feb ’09, 8.46pm MST PST on flickr On my walk down to the mailbox today I was challenged as I had not found anything near interesting in my yard to make for a Flickr 365 photo. And sometimes, pictures just find […]

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Argue it on a Map

Just stumbled across aMap, a little web app for setting up polarized discussions that can be done in a little map form, or as they say: aMap is short for “˜argument map’. The idea’s very simple – to promote the art of arguing by mapping out complex debates in a simple visual format. Sure you […]