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 or […]| CogDogBlog
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 The Far Side– […]| CogDogBlog
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?| CogDogBlog
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 review in […]| CogDogBlog
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 22, 2025 published TDC5000 […]| CogDogBlog
…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 public domain, modified by me with screenshot of my first […]| CogDogBlog
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, no one […]| CogDogBlog
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 t…| CogDogBlog
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 plus decades and […]| CogDogBlog
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 wide fedispace via @barking which was […]| CogDogBlog
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 o…| CogDogBlog
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. …| CogDogBlog
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 se…| CogDogBlog
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 (?). …| CogDogBlog
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 …| CogDogBlog
Given the faithful rising to the Reverend’s Come to Bava call to Blog or Die I want to pick up on the followup invocation of Always Be Commenting. I’ve long clung to the idea that the s…| CogDogBlog
While many people are slamming WordPress because of its baby in charge, I’m focussed still on the open source software I run on my own sites that are not impacted by the tantrums. Lately I ha…| CogDogBlog
