Everything that does not have a home, just a big old stinking pile of posts.
Like most internet rabbit holes, the opening door was innocuous. A colleague in a Slack channel made a cheery reference to something being like Jello (or Jell-O depending how you feel on product names as words). Jiggly, brightly colored, fun, playful jello. Almost by reflect, I was compelled to respond with a reference to how […]
Does anyone talk about WordPress Trackbacks anymore? They were the glue of blogging in the day. If I wrote a blog post with a link to something on your WordPress blog, you would get a notification and a link on the post that went back to mine. Maybe as close as we got to two […]
This could not be a more cool surprise to see in my twitters this morning, on all days, one of uncertainty. Hey @cogdog – thanks for supporting our Visual Stickery campaign. Here's a doodle just for you 🙂 https://t.co/W989urusbA pic.twitter.com/E3h7xJ5I3O — Bryan Mathers – @bryanmmathers (@BryanMMathers) November 8, 2016 This I am certain of, though, […]
Some stories, films end so neatly, clearly understandable, leaving me not much to wonder. Others are so dense, artsy, deep, complex, that I’m left stunned, shrug, and move on. Between these two sides of a canyon, is a valley where the story does not wrap so neatly, but leaves the brain gears churning. The story […]
In which this tired blogger fails to summarize a conference experience, and gives up before even trying… With clocks flipping in some corners of the world, last night I’m just home from a week in Virginia for the 2016 Open Education Conference. That’s it’s 13th iteration, maybe my fourth. Here is the usual conference after […]
It all starts with a tweet. From a friend. This is a clue as to where I am going. Colorado vineyard country threatened by oil and gas drilling plans wilderness https://t.co/T73QGaPbj7 via @sharethis @cogdog used your pix — Oogie McGuire (@OogieM) October 29, 2016 Oogie and her husband run Desert Weyr a ranch in Colorado […]
Yes, our American fascination with our gas churning cars may be a tad vulgar. But they are engrained in our culture. Leave it to my Iranian born American raised blogging friend Jabiz, now living in Singapore, to inspire this post with his A History of Cars. If you read between the cars in his post, […]
Of course I am being facetious. This is CogDogBlog after all. And yes, we mostly all know who owns YouTube. But for being the company that pretty much rose like a behemoth from the litter of Altavista, Lycos, Ask Jeeves, Yahoo, Web Crawler, Dogpile (my favorite name), why is the search functionality in YouTube so… […]
Attribution is a FBW (Frequently Blogged Word) around here. I’ve had some back if the brain pondering about how to extend my Flickr CC Attribution Helper to work with images from other CC licensed image collections that have a JavaScript API available (I am thinking of Pixabay, DeviantArt, and MediaWiki Commons as a start). I […]
This is how it ends. DDoS attacks are hitting the internet that network that was supposed to be designed to withstand attack. Twitter, GitHub, are down, many other sites are fine (like this one). I sit here alone, contemplating a life of work based on the internet. Options… ? Top / Featured Image flickr photo […]
