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cogdog on Ah the work of reclaiming is ongoing. I’ve not tended to much in 2021 to my pile of web bones, where I list my efforts to reclaim my external web sites that have been dumped by the hosts. In yesterday’s email, I got a notice from PBWorks that one of my old wikis was in […]
cogdog on I’m grudgingly accepting that for most people the work of maintaining their own domain and web sites is too much. They’ve substacked to email newsletters, medium-ed over to hosted writing places, knuckled in to LinkedIn, or hoist their thoughts as tweeted threads. It’s not game over, and plenty of folks are still ending their own […]
cogdog on Profound statement ahead. The web is made of links. Except when they don’t work. This trail all began with a throw away tweet: Yes, I have that old blogger habit of looking through old posts or using them as my (cue the operatic swelling music)… Knowledge Management System. So often, “or mansy days” as the […]
cogdog on Shouldn’t the idea of publishing on the web mean generating something that can “echo all around the world”? Once again, my experience shows that if you publish something on an employer’s web site, or a company’s web site, or even in something that just takes away the work of managing web sites, the chances of […]
cogdog on I’ve already written this blog post! Shall I cite myself, ibid infinitum? But just to show as an example, in my previous post I was able to reference the 2018 Mural UDG Project I was part of. A few days ago that was not possible, and also on the digital chopping block was years of […]
cogdog on According to the 25 of EdTech Years Goggles, 1994 was the year of BBS. The web itself came to be a thing in 1995. But you’ve heard it all, right? My foray into what I might claim as an open course on the web has been dangling around that drafty place of drafts described by […]
cogdog on Cue up the music, because Google again does another round of creating dust of your web services. I got an email from Google letting me know that Feedburner is getting dusty. Well, maybe they are not deleting the service, but taking away from it. Sure grandpa, who cares? What the heck is Feedburner? It stems […]
cogdog on Might the antidote to some future/present sense of powerless miasma to an algorithmic fueled inescapable AI matrix be just human created quirkiness? Join me (or click away quickly now) for another rummaging in an old hard drive of 1990s website files for a taste of the uncharted freedom when we created digital content without platforms […]
cogdog on Broken web stuff bothers me, especially when it’s my own stuff. Unlike when companies like Google et al break things, I can fix my own. I was scouring for a ten year old blog post (there was a purpos/ed but that matters not) and came across a hand rolled web page for a presentation I […]
cogdog on I’m gonna need a bigger tool. And I have been dragging my heels for a while, despite warnings from being registered on Have I Been pwned? (which I think now also sends warnings via Firefox). Yes, for many years I did that lazy thing of using the same password on many a free web site. […]