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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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I Can Has iPhone!

I Can Has iPhone! by cogdogblog posted 19 Aug ’08, 6.43pm MDT PST on flickr I’ve been wrong in my assumptions of AT&T service here in Strawberry. You cannot know w/o a phone to be sure. Maybe AT&T has been busy at woprk since I began barking about them. There is no 3G (network is […]

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WordCamp Takeaways

photo credit: lordog Continuing the gastronomic theme for my WordCamp experience, here are a few quick things I took away from the experience (for complete coverage, see Andrew Mager’s live blogging) WordCamp’s t-shirt colors (brown this year) seem to follow directly the lead of Northern Voice 😉 Almost everyone I met was with some company, […]

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WordPress Fanboy Pinnacle

Talk About WordPres Fan Boy by cogdogblog posted 16 Aug ’08, 1.24am MDT PST on flickr How cool to have dinner with ma.tt Mullenweg and satisfy my WordPress fanboy moment Wish me luck tomorrow, I present first on the schedule (rumor is there is actually a schedule for WordCamp). A fun evening meeting people who […]

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My What a Big Screen You Have…

I have yet to even explore all the features that clicky offers for web stats, but am still on a love plain after accidently discovering it.

I am running the free version here on CogDogBlog, and just found that there are widgets you can use, so I have the daily stats now embedded on my Blogs n’ Bits page or what smart people call “colophon”. It’s done via a Google Module, which means I have one on my own Google ig page.

This also widened my eyes to information I see that any module you can embed on a Google home page can be embedded in other web pages. Hmmm.

In addition, I have been using it on the NMC web site, and today paid for a year’s worth of service, meaning I can use it our multiple domains, use the “Spy” real time reporting. I too made a page on the NMC site with not only the web stats, but am embedded Google map showing where today’s visitors clicked from:

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Dog Tags / Dog-egories

Are tag clouds, as Read/Write Web suggests, entombed? dead? On my fleet of NMC WordPress site I am shifting to using tags more on posts as an organizer, and tossing some clouds on the pages (see lower right sidebar of Pachyderm Services). Its a bit easier on these sites that have a relatively low number […]