This is CogDogBlogged: "Web Serendipity Machines"
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 worse, spraying that time with my web flashlight down public domain rabbit holes.
Flynn’s Free to Use Browser Extension […]
This is CogDogBlogged: "A Peachy Trip Down the Web Rabbit Hole via a Random Public Domain Photo"
I will take the castigation for my ongoing use of Google Chrome as a web browser in 2026, mainly because of all the work flows and systems I have come to use over the years. One of these, maybe the most precious, is the one that distracts me from tasks.
That;s right, because when most people open a new browser tab or window, they get a blank screen or some buttons for browser tools or I don’t […]
This is CogDogBlogged: "Processing Getting to Processing"
Yet another ode to links. Would there be a web without them? You can just click the ones the algos hand you, like candy, just one out from the social stream and back in. Or better yet, you can wend your own way down and through the tunnels and corridors.
Join me in another path of wondrous webness and an example of the daily distraction. A good starting point is often a trusted source, like […]
This is CogDogBlogged: "Down the Rabbit Hole Chasing Fractals via the Grand Canyon and Animated Triangles"
There’s more to memory than just recall versus forgetting. I came across this brilliant read “To grow, we must forget… but now AI remembers everything” and it downs like the broligarchy thinks they just need to toss into the algorithms is a machine that never forgets?
Forgetting is a feature of human memory“Infinite memory” runs against the very grain of what it means to be human. […]
https://cogdogblog.com/2025/12/fractals-grand-canyon-triangles/
This is CogDogBlogged: "That’s The Way the Dog Treats Bounce"
This was just another one of those stories where someone made use of one of my public domain flickr photos shared under CC0. If you follow the typical convention as taught in those woekshops, this means you can use an image, and not even need to give credit.
Just grab and go.
But that’s what a man named Thierry in Belgium […]
This is CogDogBlogged: "After So Long, Meeting Lachance, the Mysterious Comment Blogger"
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 kicking until one gets the desired shiny candy.
The web of machines, not the web of people.
Through maybe the most unlikely of chances, this week, after 22 years of discovering Francois Lachance, […]
https://cogdogblog.com/2025/06/after-so-long-meeting-lachance-the-mysterious-comment-blogger/
This is CogDogBlogged: "Back from 2025 with Terry Anderson’s Amazing Story"
Over at my OEGlobal perch I just scheduled a new recording session for the OE Global Voices podcast, this by request from the folks at Athabasca University that publish the open access journal, The International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning (IRODDL) as it is their 25th anniversary.
And it was exciting to see the guest for the session include Terry Anderson, still blogging […]
This is CogDogBlogged: "The Mystical Way of Links"
Links, links, links. Happy [Link Loving] Web Day, being the 36th birthday of the World Wide Web, as it needed to be named at that time. As a well established adult at that age, you are confiden— okay enough web anthropomorphizing.
One of those things I tag as webserendipity happened a few days ago, and as if by magic I did not get to until Web BDay.
The Story Starts in my Inbox
After a […]
This is CogDogBlogged: "Where The Link Goes Therefore I Go (beyond)"
The humble hyperlink, ever it be so unassuming humble. Click here! It’s an invention, a pending adventure, for me, a potential distraction of the better than the machinery of social media attention sucking.
When you spot an interesting link in your info streams, do you quickly share, repost? Click that all so valuable and powerful Like button?
Me, after scanning or actually reading a […]
https://cogdogblog.com/2025/02/where-the-link-goes-therefore-i-go-beyond/
This is CogDogBlogged: "Open as in Monkeys Spinning Monkeys"
While I’ve hung up collecting Amazing Stories of Openness I never tire of coming across inspiring acts of it– as Nancy White had said in one of the first of these videos, “Openness is an attitude.”
This week I participated in the online Open Texas 2024 conference. In a town hall session we were spun out into breakout rooms to share ideas on what a big dream for the future of openness might […]
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