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Experiments, Wordpress

Federating Typos

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on September 11, 2025January 3, 2026

I love WordPress. And I love the Fediverse. So together, I love the ActivityPub WordPress plugin that is the magic pixie dust betwxit them. This is an experiment. I published a post here yesterday A[I]s We May Not Think (nor search, nor link), hence autopmatically sent out to the wide fedispace via @barking which was […]

Blogging, Presenting

Blabbing About Blogging for Reclaim Hosting’s “On Writing”

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on September 11, 2025September 11, 2025

What could be more traditional than the time honored blogging about blogging? Oh, oh, oh, Mr. Kotter call in me! What about blabbing live online about blogging? That’s the beauty oh what is just a part of Reclaim Hosting’s Blogging Community of Practice, notably the “On Writing” series on Reclaim.tv that Jim Groom et al […]

Blog Pile

Forming Names, Globally

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on September 9, 2025September 9, 2025

How many online forms do you think you have filled out in your web life? Likely if you live on the continent I am in, there is no thought needed when you see boxes for First Name, Last Name, etc, right? It’s standard practice, move on. Over the last few years creating them for my […]

Ideas, Random Musing

A[I]s We May Not Think (nor search, nor link)

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on September 9, 2025February 28, 2026

Somewhere in recent web travels I read someone’s post who had just discovered the insight and inspiration of Vannevar Bush’s seminal 1945 essay published in the Atlantic in 1945 As We May Think (linking to the open ACM version as sadly the original one from the Atlantic is stuffed behind their foul paywall). I have […]

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Jump The Paywalls in One Click

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on September 6, 2025February 25, 2026

Like Archimedes never said, “Give me a Javascript Bookmarklet short enough and a browser bar on which to place it, and I shall jump over the web world’s paywalls.” I blabbed recently about the extraordinary story and service (archive.today) created by an elusive figure that lets you easily jump the paywall. It includes what i […]

Blog Pile

Oh Canada (I am)

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on September 4, 2025September 4, 2025

I had a very important zoom meeting in the schedule on Wednesday that I definitely did not want to miss. I was dressed, breakfasted, and logged in early, ready with the scissors I was told to bring. This was the day I took the oath, along with 90 others in the call, as a new […]

Doing It Daily, Presenting

Let’s Go Wild With #DS106

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on September 2, 2025October 22, 2025

Hey! It’s a placeholder post! This is in prep for a session in the planning for the Reclaim Open Conference 2025 wiith some theme about rewilding. I am in cahoots with a confabulating group of DS106 veterans and we are going to get y’all rewilding via the DS106 Daily Create. Can you handle the Daily […]

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Funeral For a MacbookPro Friend

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on September 1, 2025February 28, 2026

We are gathered here to mourn the loss of Alan’s trusty 2013 Retina 13″ MacBookPro, a trusty, reliable, though keyboard battered workhouse that was there for every web page, blog post, flickr photo edited and uploaded, and more for over 11 years. The family requests no cards or flowers. Music is not provided by Elton […]

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Jump the Paywalls and Help Others Over the Top

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on August 24, 2025February 25, 2026

A typical scroll trip through almost any social media stream. People share a link to something from the New York Times. Clunk. Another from the Washington Post. Thud. MIT Technology Review? Splat. Almost anything resembing a newspaper? Clank. Sure you might get one free read a month, but with every annoying frequency, reading most sources […]

Doing It Daily, Photography

Blowing By Seven (months of daily photos)

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on August 2, 2025November 12, 2025

July was a bit tenuous for this year’s Daily Photo Habit, and things were looking dicy, but a big upload push last week filled in the first 3 weeks of the month. Now it looks easy, but the seventh month is in the bag, and I’m batting 1.000. Getting to July 31 aka 212 is […]

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