My day job is in the world of Open Education and in those circles there is talk of “all the opens” – open source software, open data, open science, open access publishing, etc etc etc. All good stuff. But in the first one on the list, and where much of this started, the usual frame […]
There are definitely more obvious words to rhyme with eleven while also avoiding the SpinalTap-ism, but lets celebrate the eleventh month of Indeed, this years Daily Photo habit (the 18th time around), and the first in many years where I am on pace to ratchet a perfect 365 score. But let’s not get toooooo confident, eh? Last […]
Welcome back to an old song around here, the ideas and ways of giving attribution when reusing the creative works of others. My approach is ABA, Always Be Attributing. The hyperlink is perhaps the simplest and easiest way, as perhaps it might be coined by some weirdo as “linktribution” (yet one more stillborn neologism). But […]
This sounds entrancing, especially with the spooky like melty text splash screen, heard about just a few clicks ago in 404 Media as “‘Slop Evader’ Lets You Surf the Web Like It’s 2022” taglined “search the internet before AI”. A browser extension for avoiding AI slop. Download it for Chrome or Firefox. This is a search tool that […]
Testing some fediversal URL auto embeds for WordPress happening in this here blog, now with slapping a naked URL on its own line: which embeds beautifully just like this- SHAZAM!~ Can we go beyond mastodon? What about a pixelfed URL? and yup. I am seeing an embedded pixelfed photo here. WINNING! As it turns out […]
For some blogging may be a chore, no longer worth the time spent scrolling, something to pump up your audience, to self promote, yeah, but for me to get back to some roots, that Udellian concept of “narrating your work”. It’s not only “here’s something I did/wrote/made/” but “this is how I did it” and […]
In the WordPress Beginning there was a post and pretty much it was title, text, an author, a category/tag, a permalink, and that was it. It’s hard to imagine blogs or news style web sites anymore that do not have an icon image that represents it, that plays a prominent display role as a banner, […]
While the dog theme is deeply engraved here at CogDogBlog we are inclusive to… cats. This is a story of Crookshanks the Cat, who showed up on our acreage and crawled into our hearts. And… survived a year outside in the -30ºC Saskatchewan winter. But First, The Oscar Story and His Condo First of all, […]
Now who the bleep is generating my titles? Oh (spotting a mirror). This was a bit of sideways fun, but come to appreciate a bit of likely Google actually goodness woven into my blog. Hang on, there’s a story. After the last post (I know you all read it!) on the good old MOOOOOOOOC machine […]
For no good reason have I been fiddling with a silly, old web site that has no bearing or real use beyond my own amusement. Can there be ever more a reason to domain your own web stuff? To do or not do what you wish? I’m not even sure why I even went looking […]
