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Podcasting, Syndicated, The PR Connection

We’re in the Store!

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on February 5, 2019December 20, 2019

This was way overdue for our millions of fans, but this podcast is finally available in the iTunes Podcast Store….

Wordpress

Slowing Down a Daily _____ Site

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on February 5, 2019February 5, 2019

It can take a lot of [insane?] effort to publish something like the DS106 Daily Create every day, but there seems to be enough hands on the wheel to do it daily. I’m not sure where or who did the asking, but I recall being asked if the Daily Blank theme it uses could be […]

Photography, Random Musing

Got Room For Story in that Metadata Schema?

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on February 3, 2019April 11, 2019

I don’t dislike metadata at all. It does wonderful things to organize heaps of media, content. But it sometimes leaving me… cold. A tweet from Bryan Alexander got this mind clicking. It’s a great story. The Ed Bacon Project is uploading thousands of photos (all with open licenses) documenting the city of Philadelphia, asking the […]

Coding, Wordpress

Duct Taping A Hypothes.is RSS Feed Widget

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on February 2, 2019August 28, 2022

Do you remember the scene of Web Apocalypse Not Now where Lieutenant Colonel Bill Feedmore boasts, “I love the smell of an RSS feed in the morning!” I hope not. But tinkering with RSS never tires, the technology that is always declared dead, but just keeps working. A current project I am doing with Gardner […]

Ideas

Can You PechaImprov the Topic of this post?

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on January 31, 2019January 31, 2019

I present a wee test for you, kind, gentle savvy reader. Have a run through these 10 random images, and see if you can guess the topic of this post (no scrolling, eh?) How did you do? When I tested it out myself, I was not sure I could pass my own guess test. Yes, […]

Coding

#netnarr Select, Click, ROT Magic

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on January 29, 2019December 20, 2019

We have some fun in Networked Narratives with coded messages using rot13. Just look at the Daily Digital Alchemy 243: It’s just a simple cipher that works by changing each letter in a word to the one that is 13 letters after (wrapping around after Z). It’s nifty, because being half of the number of […]

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Dogfooding My Own WordPress Theme

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on January 21, 2019September 8, 2022

The first HTML5Up template I turned into a WordPress Theme was WP-Dimension. The great irony was that I made use of the original static HTML theme on my own domain at cog.dog, but never went back to chow my own theme food. The thing that happened I was looking for a kind of welcome mat […]

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65 Years Later: No Cake, David

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on January 21, 2019January 21, 2019

In its impeccable reminding, my calendar does not have to worry end up being the butt of You Had One Job. Yesterday, was the reminder that it would have been my brother David’s 67th birthday. As it was, he did not see past 34, passing away, likely alone, in a state mental institution in Maryland. […]

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Hammering at OPC (Other People’s Code)

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on January 18, 2019September 30, 2022

I’m not an elegant programmer. My stuff is verbose and rarely, if ever “refactored” (meaning I know it’s a term but fuzzy on the meaning). What follows is a recap of my wandering path in trying to fix someone else’s WordPress plugin. There may be PHP spilling on the screen. You’ve been warned. This all […]

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Ontario Extend mOOC: the soft opening

Profile Picture for CogDog The Blog CogDog The Blog on January 18, 2019January 18, 2019

Yes, life gets curse-like interesting when after mocking something you end up using it. But here we go, the edX hosted mOOC (medium sized Open Online Course) I’ve been working on is getting its first visits. The making of this remains to be blogged (can everything ever be all blogged?), but I assembled a short […]

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