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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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Ate Things

Thanks, Intellagirl, thanks… I’ve been tagged for an “8 Random Things About Me” meme.The rules are: 1) Post these rules before you give your facts 2) List 8 random facts about yourself 3) At the end of your post, choose (tag) 8 people and list their names, linking to them 4) Leave a comment on […]

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World Speed Record for Customer Support

As much as I complain about getting shafted by lousy customers service and shlocky telephone answer trees, it is well worth my time to flip a positive nod to an amazing level of response. How… um refreshing! Okay, so I was chipping away tonight at a few more examples notched off for the 50 Web […]

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Heart Minnesota

Heart Minnesota posted 3 Aug ’07, 9.27am MDT PST on flickr In light of the bridge collapse in Minneapolis and honoring people affected by this, today I am wearing my Stone Arch Festival t-shirt from our fabulous vacation there in June. Even for me, just one trip over that I35W bridge brings a shudder- I […]

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DogPeeBook

Enough already of insanely more, ever expanding facebook apps. Will the web soon implode from some unexpected infinitely recursive facebooking? Here is my new facebook app DogPeeBook – D-friend is for pretty littles kitties. This Big Dog App will drop a hideous, smelly yellow stain on the profile page every person who takes you off […]

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Not to Rain on Wills Parade, but..

As a long time baseball fan (Orioles in the 1970s glory years right on through to young Cal in the early 80s…) I’m as much as anyone thinking the Cubs are due their title. But Will, in all your excitement of the standings, get real with how the central division stacks up even in the […]

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The New Polaroid is TypePad

Can you remember the anticipation of counting to 60 before peeling back those Polaroid photos, juts hoping Aunt Maybelle was smiling or little Jimmy did not have his finger up his nose? The smell of the chemicals as it revealed what more often than not was not realistic colors? Is that how we do photos […]