CogDogBlog Alan Levine barks about and plays with stuff here
  • Obligatory About
    • Calling Card
    • Web Folio
    • Best in Show (Presentations)
    • Cool Tech
  • What the ….?
    • First Bark
    • Last 100 Barks
    • Blogged This Day
    • Quotes On Blogging
    • Colo.. Coloph…
  • Dog-a-Gories
    • Photography
    • Odyssey
    • TRU Ideas
    • WordPress
    • Feed WordPress 101
    • Rants
    • ds106 Class Notes and Stuff
    • Slices
  • Sights
    • Calling Card
    • Barking Dog Photos
    • Flickring Since 2004
    • Giphy-ing
    • Medium Writing
  • Made By Moi
    • Flickr CC Attribution Helper
    • Pechaflickr
    • Five Card Flickr Stories
    • Feed2JS
    • ds106 Assignment Bank WordPress Theme
    • Daily Blank WordPress Theme
    • MOOC Mocking
      • Make a MOOC
    • SPLOT
    • Webmaker stuff
      • ImageSeeking For Fantastic Visual Metaphors
    • Words With No English Translations
    • WordPress Search Bookmarklet
  • Random Bone
  • Follow on Blogs Are Back
  • flickr
  • GitHub
  • Instagram
  • YouTube

Others Bark Back

  • Alan Levine on T-Shirt Empire
  • Eric Likness on T-Shirt Empire
  • cogdogfan on T-Shirt Empire
  • Jordan on Hello DALL-E, Looking Swell, DALL-E but…
  • Weekly Review 202605 - Troy Patterson on Blogs are Back! (where did they go?) RSS Makes the Web Bearable (read in my dead reader!)
  • now that April’s here | oookblog2 on Greetings from Irrelevance
  • Richard Byrne on Greetings from Irrelevance
  • Préférer le potentiel de l’imprévu aux attentes de reconnaissance – Chaire UNESCO RELIA on If Anyone Gets My Concept of Public Domain, It’s Musicians
  • Préférer le potentiel de l’imprévu aux attentes de reconnaissance – Chaire UNESCO RELIA on [Trying] Going to Flickr Zero, CC0
  • Potential Serendipity over Expectations of Gratitude - unitwin-unoe on [Trying] Going to Flickr Zero, CC0

I'll Fill Your Inbox

Get your regular dose of CogDogBlog via email!


 

Typically we end up in your spam box, so check there...

Buried Toys

On Web Rabbit Holing, Small Observations

Chasing Raildog: The rabbit hole path to the anti-algorithmic edge of the internetz

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on March 22, 2026March 22, 2026

“Raildog is the Ansr” but the question is how the heck did I end up following a curiosity trail where logic and the dull stasticical parroting of GenAI leaves a mind wanting? I blame / credit Jim Groom. He posted today of his pleasure in the saner mode of travel. It got me thinking to […]

Blogging, Random Musing, Writing

My 1-step approach for authentic AI-non-assisted blogging

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on March 20, 2026March 20, 2026

This is prefacing statemen , Doug! I am not criticizing you, I think the world of you. I’ve read Doug Belshaw’s writings for longer than I can pinpoint, blogs, articles, papers, tweets (what are they?). I continue to read regularly what flows in from the RSS feed of his newly redone Ghost-ified blog which has […]

On Media, On Sharing, Rants

This is Not an Attribution (the Treachery of Non Attributed Images?)

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on March 19, 2026March 19, 2026

Oh no, yet another tirade on attribution, or lack there of, of open licensed media. Isn’t this post a repeat episode? Something about Always Be Attributing? But as they never say in tinseltown, “inspired by real non attributed images.” I saw a Mastodon post linking to the Why Join W3C page for the W3 Consortium. […]

Coding, Wordpress

Turning Up the Speed of RSS Fetches in WordPress

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on March 18, 2026March 18, 2026

How about a break in the blog action for some old school WordPress Tech mumbo jumbo? I did not hear any complaints. RSS is always on the plate here, so there’s a connection. Long ago in a web not so far away, I built this thing called Feed2JS (web site no more, but an aging […]

Memories, On Web Rabbit Holing, Storying

Weaving the Story of a 1996 Storytelling Conference from Shreds on the Web

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on March 17, 2026March 20, 2026

My dreams continue of an epic long blog post story of my journeys through digital storytelling, yet every thread ends up being a tangent worth chasing worthy of its own post. Yesterday it was the CoolIris gizmo I resurrected for 50 Web Ways to Tell a Story and today it was a pivotal conference I […]

Presenting, Reclaiming Your Web, Storying

50 Ways To Tell A Story (at almost 20) Gets the CoolIris Update Treatment

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on March 16, 2026March 16, 2026

I have been head drafting posts (where the ideas just swirl around, sometimes slipping down the drain) I have been contemplating one about my now long path with digital storytelling. That one will be another Long Running Blab for sure. But it also got me thinking about one of the pinnacle things I hatched, spawned […]

Random Musing

NYT Connections Non Fame: From “CogDogBlog” to “Toothed Wheels Portmanteaux Bull__”

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on March 15, 2026March 16, 2026

And today I felt a rush that the clever editors of the New York Times were big fans of CogDogBlog. It had to be, as I was featured apparently in today’s Connections game (of which I have never seen nor will as its for subscribers). The first clue came in a Mastodon call out from […]

Blogging, Random Musing, Reclaiming Your Web

Blogs are Back! (where did they go?) RSS Makes the Web Bearable (read in my dead reader!)

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on March 14, 2026March 14, 2026

Blogs are Back?! Folks are dusting off their dormant blogs! It’s a new thing! A Revival! Strap yourself in, my three readers, this post is going to be a douzy. Back to blogging, Huh? Who left? Not to brag, but why not, this blog has gone on steadily– HEY WAIT A MINUTE I GOT DATA […]

Ideas, Memories, Presenting, Rants

[d]e[a]dupunk

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on March 11, 2026March 11, 2026

Edtech zombies may live out there somewhere, but are oft forgotten, maybe now arising out of some obscure LLM garbling, but heck, research papers can summon them too. Who better to shine a light in the creepy fields than Stephen Downes? His March 1o OLDaily post surfaced Open Education Is the New Punk: A Subversive […]

OE Global, OER, On Sharing

Inside / Making of Open Education Week

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on March 11, 2026March 11, 2026

Managing Open Education Week, one of my major responsibilities at Open Education Global, is just well sort of over… well not really over as I have managed to munge it out in time beyond the March 2-6 dates. I’ve been recasting it for the last three years but yikes, have yet really to blog about […]

Posts navigation

Older posts
Newer posts

Here I bark and growl about the web, edtech, photography, and other stuff that gets under my fur (more…).

Keep those e-cards and e-letters coming via my Bark to Me web contact form-- except requests to add links, insert ads, or write guest articles. I don't do that. Look around. If you bug for stuff listed here, and worse, repeatedly ask if I got your message you likely will get the treatment. Ignore this warning and you will incur a pile of dog poop left at your doorstep.

How do you like these inspirational quotes about blogging? (look to the right or below on a small screen) For more see the full set of Quotes On Blogging.

Blogs Are Back
CogDogBlog
CogDogBlog
@barking@cogdogblog.com
Follow

Welcome to CogDogBlog, Alan Levine’s (hey, thats me, writing about myself in third person!) place to bark about cool technology, web X.0 hype, mockng AI, exploring weird web sites, telling stories of serendipty, photography, and other targets big and small- things that get under my fur or make me wag my tail.

5,895 posts
20 followers

Follow CogDogBlog

My Profile

Paste my profile into the search field of your favorite open social app or platform.

Your Profile

Or, if you know your own profile, we can start things that way!
Why do I need to enter my profile?

This site is part of the ⁂ open social web, a network of interconnected social platforms (like Mastodon, Pixelfed, Friendica, and others). Unlike centralized social media, your account lives on a platform of your choice, and you can interact with people across different platforms.

By entering your profile, we can send you to your account where you can complete this action.

This doghouse is deftly powered by the awesomeness of WordPress and the typo prone hacking of Alan Levine. You can rely on the typos as a badge of my humanity. This blog is LLM free.

Unless otherwise indicated all photos, animated gifs, remixes, and mangled words are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Blogging Quotables...

The role of a [blogger] is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

— Anaïs Nin

Powered by WordPress and Cover modded by @cogdog
  • flickr
  • GitHub
  • Instagram
  • YouTube