CogDogBlog
Alan Levine — Educator, web developer, and open web advocate
Alan Levine barks about and plays with stuff here
cogdogblog.comI am not looking for facts and answers, I am looking for serendipity and stuff I am not expecting.
Alan Levine has been blogging since 2003 — one of the true old-timers of the indie web. CogDogBlog is a sprawling, playful archive of web experiments, photography, open education projects, and musings on digital culture. Alan builds things, documents things, and follows his curiosity wherever it leads, from WordPress themes to web serendipity to his latest puppy.
Written by Alan Levine since 2003.
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Old Dog, New Pills, Life
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 seem to lay his head down. I sat and held him for a long time, and he got a little more still. He has been getting a lot more activity since we adopted our new puppy, Pimm. Our thought it was good for Felix to get...
It Beckons for the Second (month of daily photos in 2026)
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! The 2026/365 album on February 28 There’s of course dogs, also foxes, flowers, skies, land, texture, a few objects. Is there really any kind of summary, sense, meaning from 28 photos? Of course, the prefect dude to ask is ChatGPT, who slathers on...
Got Slides? PS Club
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. We jumped to a club concept and she was open to [consideration of] using my whacky remix idea. It was a 2 slide deck. First was a knock at the idea of railing agains the structure of slide decks. Rummaging ar...
99.4% of Flickr’s 22
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 10, 2004, but its just grabbing that from Wikipedia. Big trick. Doing some date calculation (sans AI), that means flickr was put out there 8054 days ago. My first flickr photo was pasted March 30, 2004, so I was late to the game. It was a scan of a print photo I took from...
Perfectly Imperfect
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 be spending time typing?” I had bigger plans. Or different ones. Hardly the first time nor last I am full stop wrong. Thus I have somehow gotten here in the field of educational technology using a mostly...
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