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YaGoohoo!gle Yahoo Google Side by Side Shoot Out

Who is better? Yahoo or Google? How do they compare for specific searches? YaGoohoo!gle, which apparently started out as an April Fool’s joke. is now more than a joke. Via a simple, familiar search form, this site will produce a side by side search result from the big two engines. The author’s blog offers some […]

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Dog Rap: HTTP in tha House

More frivolity (blog tip of the hat to Kottke) for HTTP in tha House. You submit a URL, and the web site extracts the text, combines them into 16 lines, uses a rhyming dictionary, and pops out a series of random rap-like lyrics. Real word use? minimal. Fun and randomness? priceless. Here is the new […]

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The Dog Barfed Up Some Comments

Although I noted yesterday that my own technical gaffs had erase all of our blog comments going back to September 2004, I did comb through the last database dump from early March 2005 and sifted out the legit comments for Sept 2004 – March 3, 2005, so the loss was the last month and a […]

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Gearing Up for TCC 2005 Keynote

Next week, April 19-21, is the 10th annual Teaching, Colleges, Community (TCC) Worldwide Online Conference, or affectionately known as “the online conference from Hawaii where you do not get to go to Hawaii”. I’m ramping up to deliver a live keynote session on April 21 (see below). The theme this 10th anniversary year is “Looking […]

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The Dog Ate My Comments

Yesterday I was trying to clean out a swath of comment spam on a blog we set up for one of our college’s sites, wiping directly from the database, e.g.: DELETE FROM mt_comments WHERE comment_blog_id=XX AND comment_author like “%poker%” DELETE FROM mt_comments WHERE comment_blog_id=XX AND comment_text like “%cialis%” DELETE FROM mt_comments WHERE comment_blog_id=XX AND comment_email […]

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Blackboard Discovers Blogs (but not where you think)

Hey! Have you heard about this new cool thing called “blogging“? Well, shucks, it looks like the folks down at Blackboard central have stumbled on to it! Innovation! Yup, with all the expertise and license bucks piled up down there, they have set up “The Blackboard Weblog” at … Blogger.com? http://www.blackboardblog.blogspot.com/ And all those Bbig […]

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BikeRidePodCast

I’m tuning into some podcasts, finally. Today on my 11 mile bicycle commute (something I need to get back to doing regularly), I carried my iRiver in my pocket and listened to Rael Dornfest – Rules for Remixing, a session from the ETech Conference. It made for a nice ride in. My only flub was […]

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Student with ePortfolio Wins Art Scholarship

Actually, we are not sure if the ePortfolio had anything to do with it, but one of the members of the student panel discussions at our February Dialogue Day with Helen Barrett, Nestor Martinez got some good news. According to a post from his teacher, Dale Doubleday: On a different note, those of you that […]

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Captcha Spammers! Fugggedaboddit

It’s a new spam free day for CogDogBlog and our other affiliated MovableType 2.661 blogs here. I’ve successfully integrated James Seng’s captcha plugin, so that all comment posts require a human to type in a randomly generated security code that appears on screen as a graphic image or ‘captcha’. Spambots cannot automatically read these, so […]