Oh, yes, I keep forgetting that the open web is dead or is ended or all the web is swirling down an AI slop river of grey sludge. Just don’t tell the frisky dogs, who still know how to romp freely, share their toys, and build bits of web stuff with toys like RSS. Just […] | Continue reading
Decades from now what kind of legacy stories will the “founders” of WebinarTV tell their grandchildren? “This was my contribution to the world, remember me for it.” I had read about this sleazy outfit from 404 Media in This Company Is Secretly Turning Your Zoom Meetings into AI P … | Continue reading
For another blog post in my head about non content course videos, I had a memory jaunt back to a pivotal experience amongst many when I got to attend South by Southwest Interactive in– gulp doing the time math– 2008. This was a keynote session featuring two media narrative giants … | Continue reading
This month in digital cleanup is taking a broom to a pile of domains that have accumulated a not so tidy pile. I can’t full explain why i needed a cogdog.casa domain some ____ years ago? I had some rationale. In today’s fast-paced world, it is important to note that I will delve … | Continue reading
I never saw this one coming. And it’s not really going anywhere. But I have a shop. I have items for sale. I have a whopping seven t-shirts for sale at cogdog’s tees. And I do not make a bloody cent of profit. I am aiming to show I have zero business savvy, not a […] | Continue reading
Nobody but me is tracking, and a delightful thing for my streak to keep on its Bond-like precision in going purrfect for daily photos in 2026 (on the heels of a purrfect 2025) as recorded in the album and blogged on the 90th day of the year March 31, 2026. And this month there wa … | Continue reading
For an ever diminishing number of web heads, this phrase will generate a connotation with not even an explanation or link needed — “Bags of Gold.” Anyone? I for one was in that Robson Square conference room in Vancouver at the 2009 OpenEd Conference, for Gardner Campbell’s talk o … | Continue reading
I saw the link to Anil Dash’s End Game for the Open Web shared Friday, scanned it quickly. I’ve been a long fan of this man’s writing and staking a position. He sure outlined the ills of the game. The open web is something extraordinary: anybody can use whatever tools they have, … | Continue reading
Some obsessions are healthy. That’s what we re-assure ourselves. Thanks of course to the King of the Blog Jim Groom for posting today a photo to jump started this post. If you are confused, well, better just stay that way. But Jim shows the ds106 call sign but noting where it liv … | Continue reading
Among the best reasons to own your own domain and host a web site is to be able experiment, acts that are verboten on your easy, slick, hosted spiffy site. I will take tinker-ability over ease any minute of the day. If you are unaware of the Small Web, maybe just stay that way. Y … | Continue reading
Sometimes I spot things in my information flows that just feels like I have something akin to spidey sense, not the sensation of danger, but the sensation of, let’s call it “web woah.” I claim no accuracy nor super power (c.g. relevance). I felt that when I read a post by Terry G … | Continue reading
Hello and greetings as far as one could be from the hub of Being Relevant. It is blissfully calm here, away from the bright lights of LinkedIn and its burdens of reposting liked comments. I am so out of the latest news on Blue Sky, how can I breathe? I also am free of having […] | Continue reading
So many times I was at the 33rd Street in Baltimore to watch sorts at Memorial Stadium and no one told me it was The World’s Largest Outdoor Insane Asylum. Fitting, the inmates never know. The structure I knew is gone; I never knew it was first called “Venable Stadium.” Also appa … | Continue reading
On Saturday morning I was stuck getting a machine to work. For a change this was not a web thing, it was a real machine. A few years ago, we bought a Champion Semi-Trash Water Pump but I had never used it. With the lack of snow, our front slough (a pond) is really low, […] | Continue reading
“Raildog is the Ansr” but the question is how the heck did I end up following a curiosity trail where logic and the dull stasticical parroting of GenAI leaves a mind wanting? I blame / credit Jim Groom. He posted today of his pleasure in the saner mode of travel. It got me thinki … | Continue reading
This is prefacing statemen , Doug! I am not criticizing you, I think the world of you. I’ve read Doug Belshaw’s writings for longer than I can pinpoint, blogs, articles, papers, tweets (what are they?). I continue to read regularly what flows in from the RSS feed of his newly red … | Continue reading
Oh no, yet another tirade on attribution, or lack there of, of open licensed media. Isn’t this post a repeat episode? Something about Always Be Attributing? But as they never say in tinseltown, “inspired by real non attributed images.” I saw a Mastodon post linking to the Why Joi … | Continue reading
How about a break in the blog action for some old school WordPress Tech mumbo jumbo? I did not hear any complaints. RSS is always on the plate here, so there’s a connection. Long ago in a web not so far away, I built this thing called Feed2JS (web site no more, but an aging […] | Continue reading
My dreams continue of an epic long blog post story of my journeys through digital storytelling, yet every thread ends up being a tangent worth chasing worthy of its own post. Yesterday it was the CoolIris gizmo I resurrected for 50 Web Ways to Tell a Story and today it was a pivo … | Continue reading
I have been head drafting posts (where the ideas just swirl around, sometimes slipping down the drain) I have been contemplating one about my now long path with digital storytelling. That one will be another Long Running Blab for sure. But it also got me thinking about one of the … | Continue reading
And today I felt a rush that the clever editors of the New York Times were big fans of CogDogBlog. It had to be, as I was featured apparently in today’s Connections game (of which I have never seen nor will as its for subscribers). The first clue came in a Mastodon call out from … | Continue reading
Blogs are Back?! Folks are dusting off their dormant blogs! It’s a new thing! A Revival! Strap yourself in, my three readers, this post is going to be a douzy. Back to blogging, Huh? Who left? Not to brag, but why not, this blog has gone on steadily– HEY WAIT A MINUTE I GOT DATA … | Continue reading
Edtech zombies may live out there somewhere, but are oft forgotten, maybe now arising out of some obscure LLM garbling, but heck, research papers can summon them too. Who better to shine a light in the creepy fields than Stephen Downes? His March 1o OLDaily post surfaced Open Edu … | Continue reading
Managing Open Education Week, one of my major responsibilities at Open Education Global, is just well sort of over… well not really over as I have managed to munge it out in time beyond the March 2-6 dates. I’ve been recasting it for the last three years but yikes, have yet reall … | Continue reading
For the most recent DS106 Daily Create, a special one (well all 5167 of the other ones are still special) for International Women’s Day. tdc5168 #ds106 Acrostically Her, Poem for International Women’s Day #IWD2026 Today is the 115th International Women’s Day all day, worldwide. H … | Continue reading
A bit late for the monthly round of cleanups, but the mop is out. I have a few legacy domains running WordPress multisite that I am just going to bite my disgust of breaking links and let them go, after making sure they are full rounded up in the Internet Archive. I considered do … | Continue reading
Easily voted Best Dog in The Universe, our dog Felix, now pushing 12 human years, gave us a wee scare recently. Breaking the patterns, he had not even come downstairs at dinner time. At bed time, he was laying on the floor, breathing abnormally deep, almost wheezing. He could not … | Continue reading
Another month notched in for not only batting 1.000 for daily photos in 2026 (after a perfect 2025) but not only that, actually getting it done and blogged on the 59th day of the year, aka February 28. More self high-fives! In the bank! There’s of course dogs, also foxes, flowers … | Continue reading
I remain unable to do presentation slides from templates. When they nust happen, out comes the cloak of sarcasm. For her graduate seminar Cori had to lead a session on Poststructualism. As we talked, it just became ironic to think of doing a linear progress of Bullet Point Slides … | Continue reading
I’m late to note that earlier this month, February 10 marked the 22nd year since flickr launched. You can ask your favorite chat thing “when was flickr launched” and the answer will spit out as February 12, 2004, but its just grabbing that from Wikipedia. Big trick. Doing some da … | Continue reading
I typo [often] therefore I am [human]1. I never learned good technique. Sorry Mavis, but back at Milford Mill High School in the late 1970s, I waved off the opportunity to take a typewriter class. I must have said something like, “in what alternative universe am I ever going to b … | Continue reading
Actually I am just making the images. I am not quite getting to the No Silo stage, just trying to make a stance. Just a weak, wavering stance. But as I gaze around this old web, seeing even more adherence to putting ones words, media, messages into web silos, as aptly described i … | Continue reading
Another of the quarter baked drafts that have been bounding around the noggin that now has a reason to see some light. Or maybe it is an excuse to give my pal Todd Conaway a Plain Old Telephone Call so we can rehash a long going topic. As I edit this long/unfinished draft, I can … | Continue reading
I’m here for the first check mark for my effort of counter Tsundoku or reducing that pile on unfinished books. This is hardly a book report or detailed analysis, really I could just say, I’m done” and move on to the next. As an eager web fan boy, I put my order in for Tim […] | Continue reading
Sadly link rot is a growth industry. Most every effort these days of looking things up to find references ends up with a visit to the Wayback Machine. If that is not in your web tool belt, you are missing out. In combing through my own rubble pile of posts here, I nearly always c … | Continue reading
After 18 years of doing daily photos where many years they were not done daily, 2025 was a return to form with not only a self high-fiving it for going 365/365 (first time since 2018) but also 12/12 for monthly blogged recaps. The streak (as if it means anything) continues into 2 … | Continue reading
Who would not answer “yes” when asked if they would like a dose of serendipity. A word that conjures a bit of magic. A rather well worn tag around here. So I am coming back again to relish in my own weird obsession, not saving vats of time asking LLMs to do my tasks but […] | Continue reading
I made one of those non-resolutions (I prefer them as silent promises) to make an effort each month of 2026 to mop up some of my digital messes. No pledges here. To be honest, some like this one are not really all that much of a technical achievement, no where in the neighbour ho … | Continue reading
It’s no big secret as I have been sharing for weeks, that we have a new dog in our lives. Meet Pimm, a now 8 month old black labradors / mix puppy we adopted end of November. Get ready to say awwwww. The story of how Pimm came to be with us is a grand […] | Continue reading
Again and again I find the most interesting things that turn up in my various web pokings is not what is served up on a platter as an answer like search or now spewed into prosaic all knowing “intelligence” by generative machines. It’s what I find accidentally, often when i am lo … | Continue reading
Hardly anything is more DS106 #Life than pingponging daily creates with folks like Kevin aka @dogtrax. Ask this 6th grade musician teacher why he is still devoutly doing this stuff, and I bet the answer is along the lines “if I have to explain it to you…” A recent example among m … | Continue reading
Hmmm, what to write about? Maybe, me! No, I am mulling about Geology, my semi-accidental path into it as a near-career, the tectonic shift into educational technology, and all the intertwingly stuff I think of as I write. Who can resist cool rocks? My work path weaving from compu … | Continue reading
File this in the overly generalized, crass, and no one really gives a flying hoot blog category (everyone has that category, no?). The bulk of anything I would put on a plastic pedestal called “career” boils down to this: Looking **** up. This came to me within my first few years … | Continue reading
Ignore the movie. It’s the only way to look. This is a public service announcement from CogDogBlog. Featured Image: 2019/365/124 Go Up flickr photo by cogdogblog shared into the public domain using Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication (CC0) There’s more where that came from. | Continue reading
Let’s open with the Blatantly Obvious… Podcasting is a big thing, eh? Podcastindex tracks 4,587,928 of them right now. Yep, I have one. and doing so can make me feel like I know what I am doing. Maybe. A lot of my thinking comes from listening to other podcasts. This has always b … | Continue reading
Just noting what seems to me a significant milestone in the era of Everything About The Web is Charred Poop covered Ad Crap that just a few days ago marked the 14th year that DS106 has published a new open ended creative challenge as The Daily Create. Without missing one single d … | Continue reading
I’ve been full on the Get Federated train, and have been most happy with having this WordPress blog going beyond just auto posting posts to the Mastodon but blogging about being a fully fediverse resident entity (if you will) via the ActivityPub plugin. It’s challenging as the ex … | Continue reading
So many posts in my head still not written, and as usual I pile up the list and attend to the newest arrow in my thought quiver.And I loathe writing something the first days of January that reeks of New Years vows- sure enough this is in the Already Been Blogged Department (heret … | Continue reading