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That Extra Day in February for Daily Photos (makes 60)

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on March 2, 2024March 2, 2024

It took some lubricant spray to get the Daily Photo to Flickr Habit going in January. Even with February providing one more day to summarize, and making it the Daily Photos 366 style group, I almost let is slip again. But alas, I managed to get 60 photos in 60 days posted to my 17th […]

Life, Presenting, Random Musing

Overdue yet timely: A Ukrainian Circle

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on February 25, 2024February 26, 2024

“Holy late to the blog writing, Levine” yells the inner critic. Whatever. Here is my tale of a circle I was most fortunate to have been swept into. And more critical whinging as I am actually a day later than I should have been. So it goes. And the title was supposed to have this […]

Photography, Random Musing

2 / 10 = 20 Years and Big & Little Things I Love About Flickr

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on February 12, 2024February 12, 2024

One day late! I’m sorry Flickr, your 20th Birthday was yesterday but I have been thinking about this for a while, I promise. My love is real! Okay, here are 20 special things (there are more) in no specific order except when they pop out of my head, well actually as I am blitting them […]

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24 Would Have Been 74: Back to Carlins Pool

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on February 5, 2024February 5, 2024

My calendar reminds me today marks my parent’s wedding anniversary- they were kind and made the math easy by having a wedding in 1950. I returned to the audio I recorded with Mom in 2009, amongst be favorite memorabilia is the sound of her voice, describing to me how Alyce and Morris met in Baltimore. […]

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Applying A Little Jigaloo to the 2024 Daily Photos

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on February 4, 2024February 4, 2024

Sometimes we just need a little magic spray to unstick ourselves. Of course in many cases, no one beyond our own inner critic sees the stuckness. 2023 was a low success rate for my self-inflicted efforts of daily flickr photo posting and might leave some games in my claims of self timelining (me, a few […]

Rants, Reclaiming Your Web

A Recipe for the Disenshittification of Web Recipes

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on January 31, 2024November 19, 2025

Each passing day of trying to read on the web becomes a sad game of dodging pay walls, peeling off pop up pleas for subscriptions, and scraping away the barnacle-like encrustation of more and more ads. Witness the word of the year as coined and preached by Cory Doctorow … the wave of Enshittification. As […]

Memories, TRU Time

No Matter How Much I Stomp on the Delay Pedal

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on January 29, 2024February 2, 2024

Said pedal has no effect on time (me writing the obvious). I am among many many colleagues and friends who have been fortunate to have known, collaborated with, presented with, learned from, played music with or just have had a meaningful conversation with Irwin Devries. His last guitar chord hopefully still rings on in some […]

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Send in (and play with) the AI Voice Clones

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on January 26, 2024January 26, 2024

In several conversations I hear my own brain echoes of responses to AI mania of both fatigue and hype wariness but also some curiosity and itches to explore. My own reckoning I reckon is the comparisons to the disruptive force of the early web was we were not clubbed over the head with the web […]

Random Musing

The Joy of Not Finding What You Were Looking For

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on January 21, 2024January 21, 2024

I have a thing for web serendipity and following tunnels to places not on my to do list. Hopefully it’s not curable. It happens without foreshadowing. Today I saw a Mastodon post from a favorite tech writer I remember Clive Thompson specifically vividly for a 2007 piece Clive Thompson on How Twitter Creates a Social […]

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The Web Timelined Self

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on January 20, 2024January 29, 2024

I never thought of this benefit when I set out to do things regularly on the web, be it actually writing in your my space (that thing that seems to be now called newslettering, WTF), posting photos, even spewing to some social media platform formerly known as something else). In some, not nearly all or […]

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