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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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Lonely Tagger

A quiet moment for me posted 17 Dec ’05, 11.38pm MST PST on flickr In the middle of nowhere, so silent you can only hear the blood flowing through your ears. Good job a car is nearby or I’d be in trouble. Hi, my name is Alan, and I am a compulsive del.icio.us tagger. Just […]

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Reason #1045 Why I Love Slideshare

There are very few things that compel me to use PowerPoint. I have scolded PPT, stomped on it, lifted my doggie leg and peed on it for years… the only reason in the last 12 months I have quietly stifled my contempt is that it is the vehicle where I can post presentations on Slideshare— […]

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Trophy Blogging

Mike Batiste with the Euroleague trophy posted 8 May ’07, 6.58am MDT PST on flickr Euroleague Final’s – Panathinaikos Athens VS Cska Moskow – Athens, Greece 2007 Ditto, ditto, ditto, congrats to all who are finalists in the 2007 Edublog Awards. Vote now, vote early, heck, vote often again and again to see who brings […]

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Google We Have a Problem

At the Speed of Link Farm Spam posted 25 Nov ’07, 7.56am MST PST on flickr It took less than 5 hours after a recent blog post for this first link farm spam trackback to arrive. As bad as that is, the give credit to someone else or am I really known as "Kick-Fiend"? Hello […]

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Mobile Vs Dish Speed

I recently got set up with a wireless broadband card for access to the net via my mobile provider (it is Alltel, but the network is Sprint). While up in the mountains of Strawberry, Arizona, it was time for an old fashioned western shootout between my satellite internet connection (Hughes) and the new mobile card. […]

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Participating in Other People’s Spaces

I was pleased to see one of my new, “bestest” colleagues I got to know this year, Sue Waters get a well deserved recognition link from Stephen Downes for her chock full of good advice post on My Advice On Being A More Effective Blogger! (For another gem see her illustrated post on getting more […]