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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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I’m Looking At You!

Fresa Tooned posted 24 Nov ’07, 9.28pm MST PST on flickr Messing with those photoshop filters again Maybe this is the secret motto of Facebook? Google? Homeland Security (there is some kind of oxymoron there)? or just a hungry, curious beagle named Fresa… Yes, this blogger is lazy, just slap posting photos from flickr.

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We Are All Weavers?

Which Web Might This Be? posted 24 Nov ’07, 9.28pm MST PST on flickr I really thought the weaver was Sir Tim Berners-Lee… This book in the Pine, Arizona Senior Center Thrift Store (one of the finest anywhere) caught me eye. Actually I think it was about Chinese herbal medicine, but a little cropping, and […]

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Morning Bacn

Morning Bacn posted 23 Nov ’07, 6.30am MST PST on flickr Thanks Facebook, for the hefty morning meal of bacn. All these extra calories after Thanksgiving are making me want to auuughhhhhtttthhhhpffffhhhhhhh.

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I’m In Wikipedia!

I’m somebody now! Millions of people look at this web site everyday! This is the kind of spontaneous publicity – your name in a wiki – that makes people. I’m in Wikipedia! Things are going to start happening to me now. apologies to Steve Martin… Don’t ask why, well I was bored, and looked for […]

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Google Is Sorry?

Google Search Error- Who Me? Spyware? posted 20 Nov ’07, 11.16am MST PST on flickr A new response on a Google search. It seems the 3 words I submitted are associated with spyware? If they had included some http client detection, they might have surmised my operating system makes this extremely unlikely. Want to play? […]

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StingyBook? SelfishBook?

Since in my Being There presentation I blabbed about being “open” and looking at new tools from the “inside” I am trying my best to hold those attitudes while looking at what is becoming the juggernaut of Facebook. I’m feeling a bit slow to warm to it and looking for some heat. Facebook just seems […]

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Headed for Cobdogla

Thanks to Marlene from Adelaide for locating what may be the ancestral grounds of CogDogBlog- a place called Cobdogla. With a population of 273 Cobdoglians, this place is described: The tongue-twistingly named Cobdogla (an Aboriginal word meaning “land of plenty”) has a fascinating history. Much of the land hereabouts ““ from west of Overland Corner […]

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The Technologist’s Big Lie

I use tihs line in several presentations. “Whenever some technology ‘expert’ (hey like me) gets up here and tells you that a technology will ‘save you time’ that should raise your red flags. This is a codeword for ‘I am lying and blowing smoke’”. It is a Big Lie. The Technology itself will not save […]