This is CogDogBlogged: "The Blog Light Is On"
Hey, it’s back on!
Like as if anyone noticed. The week of no blogging has passed for the annual / well sort of annual Week of only Commenting on Other Blogs, so the posts can come flooding out.
I posted Zero posts over the last week and (tried to) keep my Mastodon posting to just linking to the blogs I had commented on. For tracking, I tagged these #CogDogCommentBlogging26 maybe a whopping […]
This is CogDogBlogged: "Blog Muzzled Again for a Week (more?) of Comment Blogging"
I accept being way out of sync with the current state of connected communications, holding stubbornly to ideas as old as a well chewed bone that no one else desired. An old bone, indeed. Hey, beyond bloggingaboutblogging I invent bloggingaboutnotblogging (newly minted tag)?
A well worn topic here is the idea of commenting on blogs as a form of blogging itself (tagged blogmenting), writing in […]
https://cogdogblog.com/2026/05/blog-muzzled-2026/
#cogdogblog #bloggingaboutblogging #bloggingaboutnotblogging #blogmenting #CogDogCommentBlogging26
This is CogDogBlogged: "This was yesterday’s post"
It eeked out today. Why even mention? I have a reason, a plan.
But it was meant to be this past week was old school blogging the way I wrote them in say 2004. Short bits of anything. Everything. Mostly text. Where the “blogiverse” as it was called poured attention, into their own blogs, and into others to comment.
Before the so called “social” medias landed and para-took our attentions to […]
This is CogDogBlogged: "Blogs are Back! (where did they go?) RSS Makes the Web Bearable (read in my dead reader!)"
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 (yearly database queries).
The CogDogBlog Pulse Index – posts per year
Well, it has fallen off, but no need to be […]
I survived being the number one post on Lobsters
https://ewie.online/posts/20260215-i-survived-being-the/
This is CogDogBlogged: "Featuring Featured Images"
In the Wordpress Beginning there was a post and pretty much it was title, text, an author, a category/tag, a permalink, and that was it.
It’s hard to imagine blogs or news style web sites anymore that do not have an icon image that represents it, that plays a prominent display role as a banner, an og:image opengraph tag that indicates what image to use when shared in other media.
I’ve been […]
Delving into the past of this blog
This blog has existed in various forms, with a few breaks, since March 2005. There might even have been earlier versions of this blog, but probably in the form of some cringey “personal website”, as they were all the rage from 2000-2005, before blogs were a thing.
Since I didn’t really blog much the last few years, I took my blog offline for a while. Reasons for that are varied, one of them […]
Fear of the personal
This sounds silly from someone having a personal blog, but I’m sometimes having a hard time writing personal things on my blog. How ironic, right? I think this fear stems from having written a mountain of incredibly cringey personal things in the first incarnations of my blog, having made very complicated social experiences in the past, and to some degree, from where I’m from.
I used to […]
This sounds silly from someone having a personal blog, but I'm sometimes having a hard time writing personal things on my blog. How ironic, right? I think this fear stems from having written a mountain of incredibly cringey personal things in the first incarnations of my blog, having made very complicated social experiences in the past, and to some degree, from where I'm from. I used to write literally just what I was thinking in my blog between 2005 and 2008 (and also before that, but on a web 1.0 website rather than a blog). This was a completely disorganized [...]
This is CogDogBlogged: "Blabbing About Blogging for Reclaim Hosting’s “On Writing”"
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” series on Reclaim.tv that Jim Groom et al been up to this year… and suitably blogged by the bava himself. I’ve […]
This is CogDogBlogged: "Blog"
There it is. Simple. That’s my “secret” for the topic of getting one’s “blog mojo back”.
I salute the Reclaim Hosting efforts of Maren Deepwell and “Blog or Die” Jim Groom in their growing of a Blogging in Higher Education Community of Practice including last week’s Community Chat on Reclaim (I was impressed how well WhereBy worked for a Zoom-less video session).
In a few months the […]
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