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Engorged Apps and Nonsensical iOS Math
That’s not a photo of a hot dog eating dude; it’s the flickr iPhone app (and it’s friends) stuffing itself for no reason on your file storage space. Of course, it’s not really file storage space, since...
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In Which I Resign From a Brief Stint as an Attribution Cop
Promoting and building tools for attribution of media may be one of the longest hobby horses running around this blog. I never got linktribution nor thanktribution to catch on. To me much of the...
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The Steaming Pile of Dog Poop Called Facebook
flickr photo by markyweiss http://flickr.com/photos/dafe/498886900 shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license I stand guilty of going back on my exit from Facebook. For an upcoming project, I must...
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On Crappy License Conditions
Recently I was looking for poop. Well, a photo of it. For a blog post. Using Google Image search restricted to media licensed to share, I found a worthy image on Wikimedia Commons. I was about to use...
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Those Old Hand Cranked CoolIris Presentations, Now With Extended Shelf Life
Bryan Alexander has been pushing out great posts on his presentation tips, including using powerpoint, use of voice, body language, and follow-up. Read them all, The Bear shares his wisdom. In one...
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I Sort By Code With a Little From My Friends I Do Not Know
This is a story of near invisible amounts of satisfaction that are not insignificant. Dare I not insert more half double negatives? It makes sense, I think, to people who “code” in that are in the...
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Facebook as Catfish Paradise: Its Community Standards Wears the Cone of Shame
Just to prove that nothing blogged here is written chiseled in granite, with great shame I admit unpulling the fork I put in my facebook account in 2014. I am present with the most minimal timeline,...
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On Medium a Title is Often the Entire Story
To totally mangle McLuhan is medium.com the message? Does it control the message? What is the message? I will unfairly pick on one story in my assertion that for a lot of what people publish on medium-...
View ArticleA medium Sized Rant on Customer Service and a $5 Keychain
I am far from ready and will never do all my blogging on medium.com… but to understand how it works, and just to have a different writing experience, I do like to use it every now and then. Perhaps it...
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CogDog’s [Aluminum] Law of Photo Attribution
Based on his extensive travel ,y colleague and good friend Bryan Alexander what he calls an “iron law”: Frequent travelers know what hotel internet connectivity can often be frustrating. But I hit upon...
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A Farce Performance: Honor a Request to Remove Old Blog Comment Spam?
Believe it or not, web kids, there was a time when you could put a form on a web site with a text area and not worry about people blitzing it with spurious irrelevant links to Chinese metal...
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Inside the (Weird) World of Facebook Catfishing (Part Deux With More Shame)
(warning: a summary of today’s presentation descends into a detailed accounting of the flaws of facebook’s violation of its own community guidelines and rules on accounts, and ends with me dropping...
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We Regret To Inform of the Passing of Malle Gottfried’s Fakebook Profile
Malle Gottfried’s Facebook account, active since November 2015, supposedly of New York City, passed away March 5, 2016 in the anonymous vacuum of reason called Enforcement of Facebook Community...
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My #Count6 Mystery (not all that exciting)
I’ve been playing a tiny tiny miniscule game with tweets of no context with the tag #count6 4,15,46,57,70,85 #count6 — Alan Levine (@cogdog) February 28, 2016 Yes, it is fun to see who pays attention...
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How to be a Dickpreneur
I opted to author this first in medium because that’s where people like “Richard” hang out. And yes “dick” is a bad word, but is also a nickname for “Richard” In which some annoyance over email spam...
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YouTube Slaps This Bad Dog a Strike
Since there are 500 hours of video uploaded to YouTube every minute, I should not be surprised that it them four years to catch up with my illicit, community guidelines breaking activity: I got a...
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Magic, Misdirection, Sleight of Hand, Facebook
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...
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The Periodic Table of Stupid Periodic Tables
Look, I’m no chemist. I did standard chemistry classes as an undergraduate students, and delved in through my major in Geology (what do you think rocks are made of?), courses in Geochemistry, did I...
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Write This Guest Post, Chelsey
Chelsey is making me an incredible offer, I just got her email: Hi, my name is Chelsey and I am a content-manager. If you are interested I would love to write a post for your website that I think your...
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Blocked in Belarus (and 242 other countries)
My apologies to all the people of “some” countries: Afghanistan, Aland Islands, Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antarctica, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba,...
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