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… survivde a year outside in the -30ºC Saskatchewan winter. But First, The Oscar Story and His … | Continue reading
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 MOOOOOOOO … | Continue reading
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 […] | Continue reading
This is about it for the blogging wrap-up if it ever does wrap, for the Reclaim Open conference experience- thanks a million trees to Reclaim Hosting for busting the typical conference format out of its rigid box. Indeed a first of firsts, AGAIN. Each day I try to walk our land a … | Continue reading
Oh as no one really sings, the SPLOTs Go On. Indeed, I have not touched/updated the SPLOT themes in so long I can’t remember, but strangely and happily enough, for the most part they keep working. Not bad for stuff hatched 2014 onward. I remain mostly the sole contributor to Sadl … | Continue reading
“What? Aren’t you done blogging about Reclaim Open conference? That was so last week!” Nope I have some on the bag and a few more to come. Nope there’s more, and it’s all about the unpresentation style a bunch of DS106 Daily Create diehards assembled for the Blogathon lunch break … | Continue reading
It’s mad conference activity blog catchup, still lots to cover from last week’s Reclaim Open conference. This is a quick post (hah the previous quick one took like 3 hours) about my session on day 2: Small Pieces Still Loosely Joined, Integrated, Federated. It hardly needs bloggi … | Continue reading
Oi, I have many a blog draft bouncing in the brain to recap last week’s outstanding Reclaim Open Conference– if you missed out pretty much of the activity and sessions is sitting there openly for you to rewild your ideas. Ideally I would have had this post done prior to my Small … | Continue reading
If all the technical widgetry works, this post will be published November 4 at the time it will be revealed as its own post on the Reclaim Open Conference, as my slot on the “Blog-a-thon” day. In the saturated metaphor nature of this post, consider this post having being rooted h … | Continue reading
Sigh, it used to be an every day thing to not only do a DS106 Daily Create but blog how it was done (e.g. backtrack to 2017 on Shatnering a song). But given tomorrow’s Reclaim Open conference session celebrating the DS06 Daily Create at noon EST on “Remix is #4Life: We We all Lov … | Continue reading
Coming up in a few days, me with a band of other DS106 Never Quitters, are on tap November 4 for a live conversation session for the Reclaim Open Conference – in that session sharing our love for and refusal to stop being part of the DS106 Daily Create aka The Daily Create (TDC). … | Continue reading
Following an on time monthly post for September, BOO! Before the end of the last day of October, I’ve already got the full month’s photos posted, tagged, and organized. Indeed, things are looking positive for a 365/365 for the Daily Photo habit in 2025. Indeed on the 304th day og … | Continue reading
Against my better judgement (oh it was against the judgment of the web site owner) I am setting up the old school FeedWordPress syndication bus for the crew painting the Confabulating/Combobulating site for the upcoming Reclaim Open conference. I have discovered finally a Chat AI … | Continue reading
Start this thing up! For the Reclaim Open Conference there is a bunch of Conflabulating going on. Someone one had to get the FeedWordPress thing going, might as well leave it tot he dog. It’s been three or four forevers since I messed around with the FeedWordPress plugin but that … | Continue reading
It’s one thing to mutter promises of being back, it’s quite another to actually do it. Through an unlikely path (again), I have finally managed to resurrect the wall of media web presentation tool I ran with for a long while, that which was once known as CoolIris. This was someth … | Continue reading
September brings the season of change, and after almost missing the cut for August and July calling for last day uploads, the Daily Photo habit changed back to getting it done. Well that’s because a week or so ago I caught up on the backlog. Yes, no one I am sure gives one hoot o … | Continue reading
Uh oh. It happened again. Another slide down cogdog rabbit holes of associative trails that cannot be created by any statistical means. It started with a podcast I did not even listen to (until later), one that I saw Wes Fryer post in Mastodon. Wes may have hear his ma talk about … | Continue reading
So I am listening to Dave Winer talk about WordPress and The fediverse, and just had to try Wordland and I am now using it to write a post— it’s gonna happen! What happens next? Is it perfectly imperfect? | Continue reading
So I am listening to Dave Winer talk about WordPress and The fediverse, and just had to try Wordland and I am now using it to write a post— it’s gonna happen! What happens next? Is it perfectly imperfect? | Continue reading
The first word in that there blog post title is not a verb, not a command, but a noun. An improper noun that is the name of a commercial megamonster corporation that exists to extract more or less Matrix like, the life of its puny little customers. I’ll start from the end, a revi … | Continue reading
Name a web site that you used in 2012 that has not stopped working one day right up to 2025. I’m waiting, I am patient. Hmmmm. Not coming to you? Well take the DS106 Daily Create which published its very first creative challenge, TDC1 on January 8, 2012 and yesterday, September 2 … | Continue reading
…therefore I still Am. Circling back, and forward from, April 19, 2003. That was 8205 days ago, 5809 posts prior to this. All created, managed, and hoisted on my own blog. Featured image: René Descartes image from Lille norske leksikon (Little Norwegian Encyclopedia) listed as pu … | Continue reading
If July was dicy, in August wheels almost came off the bus for being on track with the this year’s Daily Photo Habit. Photos were indeed taken daily, but they sat idle, and the backlog grew into a big pile attended to in mid September (meaning this month too is slack). But hey, n … | Continue reading
Just to keep the blog reflexes flexing, this is a brain dump recap of me having enjoyed a session yesterday being on the Reclaim Hosting video chat session Blogging Community of Practice. Is that the right link or is it this one? Anyhow, Maren and Jim et al invited me to blab abo … | Continue reading
I both wince and smile when I see those proclamations about the web [internet] being broken. I’d like to know the field data that is based upon. To say this confidently, someone would have to visited and explored every single corner of the web. I for one have been exploring for 2 … | Continue reading
I love WordPress. And I love the Fediverse. So together, I love the ActivityPub WordPress plugin that is the magic pixie dust betwxit them. This is an experiment. I published a post here yesterday A[I]s We May Not Think (nor search, nor link), hence autopmatically sent out to the … | Continue reading
What could be more traditional than the time honored blogging about blogging? Oh, oh, oh, Mr. Kotter call in me! What about blabbing live online about blogging? That’s the beauty oh what is just a part of Reclaim Hosting’s Blogging Community of Practice, notably the “On Writing” … | Continue reading
How many online forms do you think you have filled out in your web life? Likely if you live on the continent I am in, there is no thought needed when you see boxes for First Name, Last Name, etc, right? It’s standard practice, move on. Over the last few years creating them for my … | Continue reading
Somewhere in recent web travels I read someone’s post who had just discovered the insight and inspiration of Vannevar Bush’s seminal 1945 essay published in the Atlantic in 1945 As We May Think (linking to the open ACM version as sadly the original one from the Atlantic is stuffe … | Continue reading
Like Archimedes never said, “Give me a Javascript Bookmarklet short enough and a browser bar on which to place it, and I shall jump over the web world’s paywalls.” I blabbed recently about the extraordinary story and service (archive.today) created by an elusive figure that lets … | Continue reading
I had a very important zoom meeting in the schedule on Wednesday that I definitely did not want to miss. I was dressed, breakfasted, and logged in early, ready with the scissors I was told to bring. This was the day I took the oath, along with 90 others in the call, as a new […] | Continue reading
Hey! It’s a placeholder post! This is in prep for a session in the planning for the Reclaim Open Conference 2025 wiith some theme about rewilding. I am in cahoots with a confabulating group of DS106 veterans and we are going to get y’all rewilding via the DS106 Daily Create. Can … | Continue reading
We are gathered here to mourn the loss of Alan’s trusty 2013 Retina 13″ MacBookPro, a trusty, reliable, though keyboard battered workhouse that was there for every web page, blog post, flickr photo edited and uploaded, and more for over 11 years. The family requests no cards or f … | Continue reading
A typical scroll trip through almost any social media stream. People share a link to something from the New York Times. Clunk. Another from the Washington Post. Thud. MIT Technology Review? Splat. Almost anything resembing a newspaper? Clank. Sure you might get one free read a mo … | Continue reading
July was a bit tenuous for this year’s Daily Photo Habit, and things were looking dicy, but a big upload push last week filled in the first 3 weeks of the month. Now it looks easy, but the seventh month is in the bag, and I’m batting 1.000. Getting to July 31 aka 212 is […] | Continue reading
Almost some fraction of a lifetime later, I am looking at my own house of truth as having been shaped as much as what I was taught by as much as what was never taught. Or Alan gets grapples with what the big academics talk about as positionally. And in so many big things in […] | Continue reading
For all the eager fans (perhaps that is singular) looking for the latest video from the dog drone in the sky, CogDogDrone, we had scheduled a spring flight to take the first overview of the land since the winter. However, we had technical difficulties (aka, a pilot over-estimatin … | Continue reading
Come sit around the campfire for more old web person stories. As it was when I landed on the web in 1993, I am always thinking about the making, the literal weaving as the master wrote, of the web. And how underneath it all, nearly always visible, if you can look, is a bunch of [ … | Continue reading
I can’t explain the why I did this much less why I am blogging about it, but I aim to skip some of the blather, and let you, humble visitor, just take a click at what I hatched yesterday (warning note, there are images that shake and flash a bit). So yeah, I have this […] | Continue reading
I believe the old saying is true – “[Blogging] insanity is writing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results” like maybe someone actually reading it (?). But heck, I’m not in this for the clicks, it’s my blog, and I’ll retell it if I want to. It’s about a … | Continue reading
Almost more than anything on the internet, I love Flickr. Weird, eh? Maybe one of the first media sources to full embrace and integrate Creative Commons licensing, Flickr is not only the main place for sharing my own photos but also the place I usually dip into first for finding … | Continue reading
As if anyone is noticing, as if that even matters, but I am joyful to have closed out the Sixth Month of my Daily Photo Habit, 18 years in the running (hardly 19 years of perfection). Indeed, June 30 as Day 181 puts me over the halfway hump. Six months and batting 181/181. These … | Continue reading
I calculate multiple years have passed since I recorded an EdTech Cover Song where I lamely rewrote lyrics, munged some chords, to be dumb enough to post online my bad talent. But I love the act of rewriting lyrics, all on my own, no LLMs in the mix. Just to get the cringing out … | Continue reading
This was just another one of those stories where someone made use of one of my public domain flickr photos shared under CC0. If you follow the typical convention as taught in those woekshops, this means you can use an image, and not even need to give credit. Just grab and go. But … | Continue reading
Throw a party, in 2025 Flickr announces the arrival of Creative Commons version 4.0 licenses (cough, 12 years in the works?). I’d seen the announcement banner on flickr, though gave it no notice (especially since I use CC0 on my own photos, no versions needed). That is until I sp … | Continue reading
The web is at its best, for me, when it yields the unexpected, scented with sweet serendipity. I see myself at odds with the bulk of where the web is sliding, as a Gimme Machine, that we just keep kicking until one gets the desired shiny candy. The web of machines, not the web of … | Continue reading
Is the background music “Let’s get metaphysical” ? Nah, Just playing my own name game. I had to refrain from writing what is in the vein of declaration of blue as the sky color, but indeed “I like podcasts”. And I mean listening to them. My time for doing this in while driving, o … | Continue reading
SPLOTs. Who can’t get enough of them? Most of the internet, I am sure. It’s been a while, aka five years, since I cued up Cher and Whats His Name for that funky toe tapping beat. It’s been literally years since I touched the WordPress themes that power SPLOTs. Yet weirdly, and wi … | Continue reading