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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 Hear Voices

The voices are not real but they do have some good ideas posted 11 Mar ’07, 3.10pm MDT PST on flickr Latest sign no the Beaverton-Hillsdale highway. The sign is in Portland, Oregon. (On the Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway, between Portland and Beaverton). I have no affiliation – I just drive or ride the bus past the […]

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Tire Shop Philosophy

Horrible Example posted 15 Feb ’05, 8.49am MST PST on flickr "Either be a good example or a horrible warning" Latest sign on the Beaverton-Hillsdale Highway. This is hard to photograph from the bus -it has to stop at a light behind some cars to be in the right place. The sign is in Portland, […]

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Battery Mysteries

I dont think much about the battery in my laptop– til it craps out on me. I’ve known that the one on my 2006 MacBookPro might be getting creaky. During the last trip to Boston, it went form about a 30% reading immediately to 0 (and went black) a few times. I knew it was […]

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Roll Your Own Flickr Notes

For a long time I have continually raved about what I think is a severely under-used Cool Flickr Feature- the ability to add notes, or hypertext regions to images. For many long, winter nights, I have wondered.. Why Dont Teachers Jump All Over Such a Thing?, but alas, gave up on hearing an answer from […]

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You Had Me at Dog

I could barely ignore an appearance of a new site called Inside a Dog, a new site from Victoria, Australia aimed at promoting youth reading and interesting in writing and those lovely old fashioned portable content devices called “books”. But what a clever web theme (yes, I am biased)- that a program all the way […]