cogdog on For the second time (first was in 2014) I have deleted my Facebook account. It ought to be the last, but as they say about saying “never”. My reactivation in 2015 was a need to have an account for a course project, then I had a few web sites for clients where I needed to […]
cogdog on Is a country merely constituted by a census of number of supposed inhabitants? It memes so. Via, I believe a recommendation on YouTube (based upon algorithms that absorb my activities), last night I watched the english translation of the documentary Facebookistan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCyO5uT9XfU In this country, there are people who delete their content, but on request […]
cogdog on You might believe in magic, I sometimes do, but the kind you see performed is technically a method of visual perception mind-messup. More properly known as sleight of hand, where sleight is on Old Norse word for “the use of dexterity or cunning, especially so as to deceive.” My dislike of Facebook extends farther back […]
cogdog on I stand guilty of going back on my exit from Facebook. For an upcoming project, I must have an account to provide student feedback. I was impressed that upon re-creaitng account, my entire previous presence was gone (at least what they showed me). My current presence has a name, a photo a location. Nothing more. […]
cogdog on I’m going to warn you of something incredulous. Later. But first, today’s 0.001% thought out message: A tweet is in the eye of the beholder, so just to be clear, I fully subscribe to the power of what a retweet can do, and to a slightly lesser degree, nod to the effectiveness of a quick […]
cogdog on Wouldn’t you give anything to be the fly on the wall in the Facebook boardroom as they scramble to put of the little sparks of fire? I’m not even going to dredge up all the links of people citing why they are quitting facebook, why they are not, why they are begrudgingly staying. I think […]
cogdog on from TheVine It seems pretty simple. If I post an image on flickr, I go there (or get an RSS feed) to see what comments have been added. If I want to see what people said in response to my blog posts, I go here (or again, read my own feed). Same for YouTube. Any […]