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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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Yup, Gisela Needs Web Design

flickr foto Gisela Storeavailable on flickr Small out of the way town south of Payson. This was the General Store and bar, closed for 3 years. I was poking around the net looking for anything about Gisela, Arizona, a town of minimal map dot size. For as many years I have driven north on the […]

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Spam Redirection Embedded in Feeds

Thanks to Todd for alerting me that a low life spammer was exploiting Feed2JS to redirect feed links to their product site. It was clever, coy, and annoying all in one package. The spammer was generating a feed that had embedded javascript in the channel->description field of the feed, and when rendered via Feed2JS with […]

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Best Blog Subtitle

It takes a creative mind to think of a catchy clog subtitle, you know, a pithy phrase that can run underneath the blog’s name. Leave it to Guy Kawasaki’s Signum sine tinnitu: or skipping passed the image squinting: Blogger. n. Someone with nothing to say writing for someone with nothing to do. Perfect. And just […]

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MacBookPro Gets Home First

My mis-behaving MacBookPro started its vacation a day before mine, but alas, it’s time away from home is shorter than mine… it was shipped to Apple from my doorstep Thursday afternoon, the 24th, while I left town Friday morning. The MBP was at Apple’s Spa for Weary Laptops on Friday, and turned around the next […]

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Interpreting the Signs

flickr foto no_trespassavailable on flickr I cannot read signs that I do not like. Blog activity subject to severe fluctuation– I am off for 12 days at our cabin retreat in Strawberry, AZ, where yes, Stephen, there are truly forests in Arizona. So I will have my feet on the rail of the deck, or […]

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MacBookPro RIP

My laptop screen is officially DOA. My shipping box to send it back to Apple’s intensive care unit should arrive today so I can send it off before I leave for vacation at the end of the week. When I was on the phone with Apple, they kept asking me if the effect was “re-producible” […]

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Breaking the 9 Minute Spam Barrier

Utterly amazing, and stupefyingly depressing… Less than 9 minutes after posting Metering Social Bookmarking Services, the inbox registered a quick response… from a casino splog: who obviously did not read my instructions: So who can get a high score (pills, porn, and casino, and other cockroach infested sites do not count)? The roaches are all […]

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Metering Social Bookmarking Services

SocialMeter looked interesting- enter a URL and it pulls some stats from major services like del.icio.us, Digg, Furl, Google, Yahoo, technorati for how many times the URL has been bookmarked. It returns a total hit count, and you can click each service to yank up its results. Of course, just like one’s first foray when […]