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<title>A Little Bit of CSS Shine for the Wayback Links</title>
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<description><![CDATA[More in the little web joys of selk tinkering. Rewards you never get by pouring your houghts into some packaged medium sized substack of a LinkedIn space. Self-stylin; as it were. Way back in the pre lock down era of January 2020 I added a little bit of CSS to this blog thang that put […]]]></description>
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More in the little web joys of selk tinkering. Rewards you never get by pouring your houghts into some packaged medium sized substack of a LinkedIn space. 
Self-stylin; as it were. 
Way back in the pre lock down era of January 2020 <a href="https://cogdogblog.com/2020/01/signifying-wayback-links/">I added a little bit of CSS to this blog thang that put a small icon adjacent to any hyperlinks to the internet archive</a>. This is, as on an ongoing basis, I find more links other sites from here have bit the 404 dust or just have been clearcut by a discarding of entire sites. Iften when I am rummaging around the corners of CogDogBlog, I find old posts with missing feature images, malformed HTML, and more often than not– ye new dead links.
So it seemed worthy to have a visual indicaor of links to the <a href="https://web.archive.org/">Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine</a>. The CSS I used as based on some early 2000s stuff when I wanted to make clear links to PDFs or other file formats. So a nifty gizmo is you can create a CSS class that snags hyperlinks o specific sites. My style I added in 2020 used a little image stuffed in my server pile:
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There was nothing wrong with it, but as sometimes the internets spit out something you were not looking for, in Mastodon I was combing though the local feed of my instance at https://cosocial.ca/ . For some reason this caught my eye where this person was making clear their Wikipedia links. It was similar, but looked a bit more modern than mine, so I was curious to style my own styles.
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I updated my CSS to use a svg icon that was a whopping 2k but also uses the :after subclass or whatever its called to append the icon after a link.
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Could I have asked ChatGPT to do this for me? Of course, but why? Where’s the craft in that? Why prompt for stuff I can do? I want to keep the rusty code muscles limber. 
So what the beans does it do? Well, for an example, I recently was combing the Wayback for an Australian publication from the mid 2000s that I remember <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20071010013146/http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2006/edition-11-editorial">an issue of the Knowledge Tree written by my colleague Nancy White</a>, (do you see what it does?) this maybe in the first days I got to know someone I was fortunate enough to work with, visit, and add to my friend circle. I emailed it to Nancy, and as one did often in those days, <a href="https://fullcirc.com/2024/04/18/once-upon-a-time-i-wrote-a-thing/">she blogged about it</a>.
For me, I like having this visual indicator of how much of a blog post I have managed to keep partly alive by nurturing the dead links with archived ones. You can see a lot of the icons on the oldest post I have with links to the Wayback machine, <a href="https://cogdogblog.com/2003/11/blogging-in-2/">a 2003 moldy oldie on “Comment Blogging”</a> (what comes around, I might come back for that).
Not sure what this matters, but I derive small satisfaction in tinkering under the hood of the machine.
<h2 class="wp-block-heading">Update</h2>
As expected, ChatGPT (cheap 3.5 version) was first able to provide more or less what my old code did. <a href="https://chat.openai.com/share/1d582269-626f-436c-b3a6-08e35d79d1c2">When I asked it to improve to use the :after pseudo class it belched out an ugly blob of CSS</a>. I knew it would be a waste of time and <a href="https://towardsdatascience.com/chatgpts-energy-use-per-query-9383b8654487">for 2 queries I expended 0.004kW of electricity</a>.
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Featured Image: Mine. Human generated. My dad’s old shoe shine box. <a href="https://flickr.com/photos/cogdog/4444000793">Dad’s Shoe Box</a> flickr photo by <a href="https://flickr.com/people/cogdog">cogdogblog</a> shared into the public domain using <a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication (CC0)</a>
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<title>the pulse of net.art</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 17 Apr 2024 17:41:15 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[It’s no surprise that Jay Hoffman writing about The Analog Web caught my eye, not for nostalgia, but something that circles forward. I’ve been following Jays History of the Web writing since, well I can’t remember when, and am pleased to see he has gotten federated. Of many points I could grab as a Gardner […]]]></description>
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It’s no surprise that Jay Hoffman <a href="https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/the-analog-web/">writing about The Analog Web</a> caught my eye, not for nostalgia, but something that circles forward. I’ve been following Jays <a href="https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/">History of the Web</a> writing since, well I can’t remember when, and am pleased to see <a href="https://mastodon.social/@Jayhoffmann">he has gotten federated</a>.
Of many points I could grab as <a href="https://yc-extend.ecampusontario.ca/activities/thought-vectors-and-nuggets/">a Gardner Campbell gold sprinkled “nugget”</a>, his mention of net.art clanged a neuron.
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For instance, in the much earlier days of the web, a group of artists and writers found each other out amongst the nodes of the network. They began creating websites unified only by a shared interest in what could be achieved on the web. After a while, they gathered under the banner of Internet Art, or net.art for short. Their online creations ranged from hypertext poetry and avant garde stories to websites that extended performances into the real world or challenged the idea of what a website even was.
I refer, <a target="_blank" href="https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/net-art/" rel="noreferrer noopener">as I have before</a>, to Rachel Greene in reference to <a target="_blank" href="https://www.thamesandhudsonusa.com/books/internet-art-softcover" rel="noreferrer noopener">her book about Net.art</a> and the importance of the movement:
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I refuse to let commercial interests dominate the history and perception of the net because I think they would exclude the most important and dynamic internal content – the aesthetic, creative, radical, political ideas and experiments
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<cite><a href="https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/the-analog-web/">https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/the-analog-web/</a></cite></blockquote>
On a whim in 2010, during a visit to the hallowed MIT grounds in Cambridge, I picked up some books in the MIT Bookstore.
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I was working for s<a href="https://www.nmc.org/">ome now defunct organzation</a> that had “new media” in its moniker, but actually did not know the stuff inside had this name of “net.art.” The books content was fully available (once) on a wiki, and all of the exhibits inside were of course visitable on the web.
In 2010.
Sometime much later, I took it on myself to run my own project to revisit the sites, collecting updates, archive links in a tumblr site (wow did I have a time remembering how to login and navigate tumblr-ville) a called <a href="https://re-new-media-art.tumblr.com/">(re) New Media Art</a>. 
Each entry included a screenshot, a link if it existed, if not, an internet archive link. Yup, <a href="https://cogdogblog.com/2014/02/new-old-new-media-art/">I guess I blogged about it too</a> it looks like I did a thing with the tumblr RSS feed and ancient syndication trickery to republish them in my blog. <a href="https://cogdogblog.com/tag/renewmediaart/">My gosh it worked</a>, small pieces loosely taped together.
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://re-new-media-art.tumblr.com/post/77885538452/life-sharing"><img data-attachment-id="74174" data-permalink="https://cogdogblog.com/2024/04/pulse-net-art/screen-shot-245/" data-orig-file="https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-245.jpg" data-orig-size="1994,1600" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="Screen-Shot-245" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-245-760x610.jpg" data-large-file="https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-245-1280x1027.jpg" decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="1280" height="1027" src="https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-245-1280x1027.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-74174" srcset="https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-245-1280x1027.jpg 1280w, https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-245-760x610.jpg 760w, https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-245-1536x1232.jpg 1536w, https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-245.jpg 1994w" sizes="(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px" /></a><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><a href="https://re-new-media-art.tumblr.com/post/77885538452/life-sharing">My entry for a revisit to the Life Sharing project</a> from the original New Media Art book.</figcaption></figure>
I only got a portion of them done, well maybe only 6 yet another started, partly done CogDogBog
When I taught the Networked Narratives course, I did give my students <a href="https://make.arganee.world/thing/where-is-the-new-media-art-now/">an assignment to research the ones I had not completed, and generate the entry</a> for which they got credit – e.g see the “researched by” credit for the revisit to <a href="https://re-new-media-art.tumblr.com/post/170482679884">My Boyfriend Came Back from the War</a>. The <a href="https://re-new-media-art.tumblr.com/">four newest ones on the site</a> were done by students (and one by the venerable participant in everything @dogtrax).
The point here is Jay’s mention of net.art sent me back to look at my site, its still there, and just out of curiosity, I followed the original link for the Life Sharing site, where the domain itself is art <a href="http://0100101110101101.org/home/lifesharing/index.html">http://0100101110101101.org/home/lifesharing/index.html</a> to find a redirect… woah it is now part of <a href="https://anthology.rhizome.org/">a Rhizome exhibit of Net Art Anthology</a> that is much much better (more media and references) than my crappy tumblr.
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I have to see the whole Anthology is a rich trove of net.art. That is alive, with a pulse. That’s a lot because it is published in those old formats that still work. You want durability over the long haul? Stay with HTML.
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One link leads to another to another (and Alan getting distracted!)
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Featured Image: <a href="https://anthology.rhizome.org/simple-net-art-diagram">Simple Net Art Diagram</a> animated GIF by <a href="https://www.mtaa.net">MTAA</a>. The Net Art Anthology states it is licensed under a Creative Commons license” but<a href="https://www.mtaa.net/mtaaRR/off-line_art/snad.html"> the old school source page</a> indicates it is placed into the public domain using Creative Commons CC0. See Nate Angell! Some of us make the distinction clear!
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<title>Blog Post Silly Polo</title>
<link>https://cogdogblog.com/2024/04/silly-polo/</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2024 01:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
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<category><![CDATA[Experiments]]></category>
<category><![CDATA[fediverse]]></category>
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<description><![CDATA[I hardly have to ask the internet (hey you!) to ignore me, but I am trying one more post as an ActivityPub enabled blog check the formatting when it goes out- this time I have changed the format of the posting to include a title intro, am added excerpt, and a stuffed in hashtag. Already […]]]></description>
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I hardly have to ask the internet (hey you!) to ignore me, but I am trying one more post as an <a href="https://cogdogblog.com/2024/04/hello-activitypub-on/">ActivityPub enabled blog check</a> the formatting when it goes out- this time I have changed the format of the posting to include a title intro, am added excerpt, and a stuffed in hashtag.
Already some success as<a href="https://cogdogblog.com/2024/04/the-tiny/"> my last post did get Fedi-posted</a>, I can’r embed it as the link for it, as it should be, is the original post. 
But, when I <a href="https://cosocial.ca/@cogdog/112277013114117268">replied in Mastodon</a>, the comment came into the blog. And my reply from the blog also went back out.
So i am a federation of one person, 2 accounts, talking to myself. Hence the “silly polo” (I have been waiting to use <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3351769494">that public domain image</a>).
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Featured Image: <a href="https://flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/3351769494">Wild West Polo, Coney Isl. (LOC)</a> flickr photo by <a href="https://flickr.com/people/library_of_congress">The Library of Congress</a> shared with <a href="https://flickr.com/commons/usage/">no copyright restriction (Flickr Commons)</a> modified me to have a top text of “@Topdog@CoGDogBlog.com Fediverse Posting Polo, Mastodon”. Kind of weird how I do not need to use GenAI to make pictures, eh?
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<title>The Tiny of SPLOT</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2024 17:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[I was thinking of the times when I would, now totally sounding naively, exalt about the bigness of the internet which today, which we pursue trendingness to be seen, noticed, affirmed, liked and re-liked. Who wants to spout out and not be heard? I come to celebrate today the small, unnoticed. One of my weirdest […]]]></description>
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I was thinking of the times when I would, now totally sounding naively, <a href="https://flickr.com/photos/cogdog/albums/72157607752135967/">exalt about the bigness of the internet</a> which today, which we pursue trendingness to be seen, noticed, affirmed, liked and re-liked. Who wants to spout out and not be heard?
I come to celebrate today the small, unnoticed. One of my weirdest to describe efforts, now brown on the edges with aging, was ye old <a href="https://splot.ca/">SPLOTs</a> those hand crafted WordPress themes designed to let people build out sites for collecting/sharing content easily (well what passes for easy). 
One sign is that the internet is big enough for many things named the same– <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=splot+logo">I am not the first to latch on to a name</a>. Will the real SPLOT please stand up (all rise).
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=splot+logo"><img data-attachment-id="74156" data-permalink="https://cogdogblog.com/2024/04/the-tiny/screen-shot-237/" data-orig-file="https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-237.jpg" data-orig-size="1426,1072" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="Screen-Shot-237" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-237-760x571.jpg" data-large-file="https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-237-1280x962.jpg" decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="1280" height="962" src="https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-237-1280x962.jpg" alt="Google search results showing 6 different logos for 6 different web sites named "SPLOT". One is mine, splot.ca" class="wp-image-74156" srcset="https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-237-1280x962.jpg 1280w, https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-237-760x571.jpg 760w, https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-237.jpg 1426w" sizes="(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px" /></a></figure>
I’ve barely updated, added, tended to SPLOTs, but I do get glimmers of seeing them out in the wild. And even in person, like at the OER24 conference I got to see <a href="https://francesbell.com/">Frances Bell</a> who is most enthusiastic, gracious, appreciative with the use of two SPLOTs in the <a href="https://femedtech.net/">Femedtech web site</a>– so enthusiastic she gave me a SPLOT coffee mug!
<figure class="wp-block-image size-full"><img data-attachment-id="74157" data-permalink="https://cogdogblog.com/2024/04/the-tiny/splot-mug/" data-orig-file="https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/splot-mug.jpg" data-orig-size="1080,812" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="splot-mug" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/splot-mug-760x571.jpg" data-large-file="https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/splot-mug.jpg" decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="1080" height="812" src="https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/splot-mug.jpg" alt="Smiling an holding a cup with painted splotch design aside a smiling woman, who gave him the cup. They are standing in the hallway of some kind of conference venue." class="wp-image-74157" srcset="https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/splot-mug.jpg 1080w, https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/splot-mug-760x571.jpg 760w" sizes="(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">A SPLOT mug Frances Bell gifted me at OER24, thanks to Sheila Macneil for the photo, I can guess we would slap with a CC-BY linense.</figcaption></figure>
And this morning I got an email from Suzanne who manages the <a href="https://starscapes.openlcc.net/presentations/">Lansing Community College Starscapes site</a>, using <a href="https://github.com/cogdog/splotbox">SPLOTbox</a> for students to post/share media (images, videos, documents) describing projects shared at a college event promoting student creativity. 
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><a href="https://starscapes.openlcc.net/category/spring-2024/"><img data-attachment-id="74162" data-permalink="https://cogdogblog.com/2024/04/the-tiny/screen-shot-238/" data-orig-file="https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-238-scaled.jpg" data-orig-size="2560,1497" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="Screen-Shot-238" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-238-760x444.jpg" data-large-file="https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-238-1280x748.jpg" decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="1280" height="748" src="https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-238-1280x748.jpg" alt="Starscapes features student innovation and creativity as a showcase for lansing Community College, 3 videos shown from the site for projects on Ultrssound Artifacts, Ergonomic in Sonography, and Tissue Harmonics" class="wp-image-74162" srcset="https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-238-1280x748.jpg 1280w, https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-238-760x444.jpg 760w, https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-238-1536x898.jpg 1536w, https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Screen-Shot-238-2048x1198.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px" /></a><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><a href="https://starscapes.openlcc.net/category/spring-2024/">Starscapes student projects submitted for 2024</a></figcaption></figure>
She reported for 2024 they have more submissions than before:
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Being able to offer StarScapes online has doubled the number of students who participate in the event. Right now we are trying to grow the in person event again, as that used to be the only option before the pandemic.
<cite>Suzanne B on use of Starscapes site</cite></blockquote>
It’s out there in the bigness of the internet, right?
I still feel <a href="https://cogdogblog.com/2024/01/happily-splotic-metaphors-sadly-robotic/">compelled to built out image collector sites,</a> even if I am the lone contributor. <a href="https://sadlyrobotic.cogdogblog.com/">If anyone ever adds an image</a>, it will be noticed somewhere.
At one time I had the idea to make a SPLOT where people could upload text and then make it available to do blackout poetry, but evnetually someone came along and did this in a much better form, see <a href="https://emergepoems.com/">Emerge Poems</a> (that was likely you @dogtrax, great find).
In these days I am finding solace in the tiny over the big. At least that’s what I whisper to myself. Anyone else out there celebrating the tiny? There’s more of it than you think.
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Featured Image: Modified my own image <a href="https://flickr.com/photos/cogdog/16293878467">Those Peaks Are Tiny</a> flickr photo by <a href="https://flickr.com/people/cogdog">cogdogblog</a> shared under a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">Creative Commons (BY) license</a> to put the SPLOT logo I created inside the fingers, make it all CC BY and call it a day.
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<title>Hello [Fedi] World, ActivityPub On</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2024 02:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[There was a moment at the [brilliant] #OER24 conference keynote duo by Catherine Cronin and Laura Czernowicz “The future isn’t what it used to be: Open education at a crossroads” when they asked the audience to Menti respond to a question about what we should do as an action. Watching the responses roll by when […]]]></description>
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There was a moment at the [brilliant] <a href="https://catherinecronin.net/conferences/post-oer24-keynote/">#OER24 conference keynote duo by Catherine Cronin and Laura Czernowicz</a> “The future isn’t what it used to be: Open education at a crossroads” when they asked the audience to Menti respond to a question about what we should do as an action.
Watching the responses roll by when I saw one that said “Blog!” I leaned forward and tapped <a href="https://blog.edtechie.net/">Martin Weller</a> on the shoulder to whisper “I see you!”
Let’s say I have been slow on that front (as Martin keeps punding them out), I have still a draft on in my brain from the conference.
That’s not this one.
I am actually just attempting to open the blocked blog flow here, with just a little nothing note, that as of this post, this WordPress powered blog (so old fashioned, eh?) is now, err once again, pumping out the posts, when/if they actually happen, directly to the Fediverse, to Mastodon, via the <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/">ActivityPub plugin</a>.
Zzzzz. Hardly worth a blog post, is it?
Well I did a short run with it before it became part of the Automattic ship, back in maybe November 2022. it worked indeed publishing as an entity known as <code>@topdog@cogdogblog,com</code>, but for me, I was really looking for the means to publish to my existing Mastodon, after all it’s my stuff, and I want to reply to replies if there were anything, as me. 
I went down a different route, using <a href="https://cogdogblog.com/2022/11/gizmo-to-mastodon/">a duct taped approach of an IFTTT applet that listened to my blog’s RSS feed and posted to my Mastodon account</a> via a webhook. I’ve since made a batch of these, some to post stuff to Mastodon I have tagged in Pinboard, even having my flickr photos tagged with my dog’s name posted to his own Mastodon account (this approach got nicked when IFTTT took away the ability to use web hooks from the free accounts, and I have been moving some to make.com which is vastly more powerful service).
I like having stuff flow into my own stream, not some other one. Plus with these tools, I had some flexibility to customize the output, you know , my personal touch, like putting “Just CogDogBlogged:” before the title and slapping a hashtag on the end.
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But I have been seeing more use of the WordPress plugin and mentions of more features. Just on a whim, last week, I added the ActivityPub plugin to the <a href="https://podcast.oeglobal.org/">OE Global Voices podcast site</a> I managed (on WordPress) just to see how easy it was to set up.
<a href="https://podcast.oeglobal.org/2024/04/11/voices-in-the-fediverse/">Dead easy</a>.
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And then, one of those little things happen than remind me the human connections in this ginormous ball of web yarn is what makes it worth it.
I am fortunate that someone like Jon Udell follows my posts, and replies, and as its done, <a href="https://social.coop/@judell/112256574516011160">he mentions Matthias Pfefferle</a> who is the genius behind the plugin, and then Matthias is asking me questions about my set up for podcasting, and lets me know of a new audio feature coming out this week.
If somehow my spitting out a mention of a small experiment leads me to talking directly to the person who builds the software? well heck, that is something I would latch on to rather than foaming on about prompt engineering.
And hence, IU am thinking, why not set it up again here on the home blog, my roost since 2003. That’s something you don’t get cashing in your chips to blog on Wix or tossing it all into email newsletter platforms. I am of the dwindling mindset of those who not only want to own my own web corner and platform, I want to play with it, tinker, and pop the hood once in a while to admire the engine.
Well this was more than a Hello World thing to test how this will spawn out into the Fedivserse. But that is my human, far from efficient way to do things.
It will thus be spit out twice to the fediverse, using each approach. Like anyone cares about my repetition and redundancy.
Now that the blog gate is open, maybe more words can get out the door here.
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Featured Image: My own remix of Botticelli Birth of Venus as an homage to the blog loving <a href="https://bavatuesdays.com/">Jim Groom</a>, with the faces of the original DTLT team admiring his blog form.
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<figure class="aligncenter size-full"><a href="https://flickr.com/photos/cogdog/13850105375"><img data-attachment-id="74149" data-permalink="https://cogdogblog.com/2024/04/hello-activitypub-on/13850105375_53397d78f9_o/" data-orig-file="https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/13850105375_53397d78f9_o.png" data-orig-size="640,360" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="13850105375_53397d78f9_o" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/13850105375_53397d78f9_o.png" data-large-file="https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/13850105375_53397d78f9_o.png" decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="640" height="360" src="https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/13850105375_53397d78f9_o.png" alt="A remix of Botticelli's birth if venus, where the lass on the shell has the face of Jim Groom, a DS106 tshirt, and faces added to the onlookers of the other old DTLT team frim UMW" class="wp-image-74149"/></a><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><a href="https://flickr.com/photos/cogdog/13850105375">Tell Me Again About My Blog!</a> flickr photo by <a href="https://flickr.com/people/cogdog">cogdogblog</a> shared under a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">Creative Commons (BY) license</a></figcaption></figure></div>]]></content:encoded>
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<pubDate>Fri, 29 Mar 2024 23:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Gasta is now passed-ah.. Oi that does not exactly work, but here I am on the return trip from the OER24 conference, out my window pink light over Greenland, trying to write a blog post, offline. Because, after all the AI tremors have stilled or knocked down all the castles, the blog, the act […]]]></description>
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The Gasta is now passed-ah.. Oi that does not exactly work, but here I am on the return trip from the <a href="https://www.oer2024.co.uk/">OER24 conference</a>, out my window pink light over Greenland, trying to write a blog post, offline.
Because, after all the AI tremors have stilled or knocked down all the castles, the blog, the act of blogging, remains for me, the reason detre.
Writing of the experience at OER24 is its own topic, here is my still riding the adrenaline wave of doing something so far out of my wheelhouse, there’s not a shred of the box left. And as I expect the blogging will get long paragraphed, I will start with the thing I did, then talk about it in excruciatingly droll detail.
Two days ago, for the very last day of OER24 I did this a speaking format I’ve never done before:
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So crossed off my conference bucket list is doing <a href="http://gasta.me/gasta-a-potted-history/">a Gasta presentation</a>. Even if you read the explanation, watch the videos, I’m not sure you can feel the electricity when the raw energy of Tom Farrelly lists out a call to countdown (learn to cp\ount in Irish) <a href="http://gasta.me/counting-in-irish/">with a wee bit of H5P</a>.
I have to admit that in hindsight, <a href="https://cat-diaries.blogspot.com/">I had a similar experience maybe first in 2004</a> at the old NMC conferences Five Minutes of Fame.
My idea came the weekend before the conference proposal deadline, when Cori and I were on a 3 day holiday in a cabin in the West Cypress Hills. My OEGlobal colleagues weee urged to submit presentations as plans were made to hold in person meetings for our staff there in Cork, Ireland, a few days before the OER24 conference.
I could have conjured something related to my projects but I did not feel anything really of importance to package as a talk.
But I have been long musing on the stream of educator lamenting over the sewage spiral of twitter and questions like “Where will everyone go?” To me, that notion of Twitter as a “town hall” was an illusion— don’t get me wrong, I hade so many valuable and fun and zany things that came from there, but it did not seem like it was the place itself. What happened to the idea of us building so called personal learning networks that were a multitude of platforms, with a blog rather central.
Yes Twitter had X-Ed the building of intenest to me (much because of how many of my small project forays were built to interconnect with bird space. And I have been tuning into the writings of Cory Doctorow on the enshittification of the web we are living in.
In May or June 2021 (check) I found myself reinvigorated with Mastodon (I had an account since 2016) and more broadly, the fleet of other apps that could connect or syndicate from Mastodon. I thought my organization could get out in front of this by setting up our own instance/server as maybe a member offering or just another open educator community space. Being the fediverse, natch, means it does not matter where you set up, but a common space had appeal to me.
However my colleagues, who frankly do not really do much personal use of twitter, were not interested. The expression in the response im got was that we should take “a measured approach.”
No matter, a server/instance was not necessary to rally interest, and thanks to my colleagues Wayne Mackintosh and Dave Lane of the OERu, they let me and others set up on their <a href="https://social.fossdle.org/">social.fossdle.org home</a> Again, the concept of the fediverse means it does not matter where you hang up your toots , as you can follow and communicate with any Mastodon user.
So I launched <a href="https://connect.oeglobal.oarg/tag/fediverse">other blobs of intertest with posts in our OEG Connect discourse community</a>. I added a profile feed for users to add their mastodon handle and <a href="https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/oeg-fediverse-directory/4364">pitched a Fediverse Directory</a> for the communityl
Thus I felt compelled to concoct an OER24 session as some kind of call to be part of the fediverse. Its been a while since I have done an audience presentation and the idea of talking over slides felt dull. I had seen Gasta done online from other OER conferences. The format seemed to be calling for something outrageous and, well maybe loud or disruptive.
I then thought of the spoken poetry and poetry slams I have gotten to see my wife’s high school students do. Cori has an exceptional instinct for word choice, arrangement, and delivery. As the kind of person she is and I love, when I brought it up on the drive to our weekend getaway, Cori has not only supportive but eager to coach me through the process.
Given that, I said that I should write my proposal as a poem too. Cori said to write my ideas as a few paragraphs, and in no time she whipped it into poetic form. Thus the proposal:
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<h2 class="wp-block-heading">References</h2>
AmplifyFE (2023, September 5), AmplifyFT Communities of Practice Sector Audit Reports 2023, #ALTC23 Annual Conference 5-7 September 2023, Retrieved Nov 9, 2023, from <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mbIkhYInWEx8Djrn4u4jyPsIAe1_YBLx/view">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mbIkhYInWEx8Djrn4u4jyPsIAe1_YBLx/view</a> 
Koebler, Jason (2023, October 20), Mastodon Is the Good One, 404 Media blog,  Retrieved Nov 12, 2023 from <a href="https://www.404media.co/mastodon-is-the-good-one/">https://www.404media.co/mastodon-is-the-good-one/</a>
<cite>Get Federated OER24 Gasta session proposal</cite></blockquote>
It was submitted literally an hour before the deadline. I kept my expectations in the range that any review committee would look at this and laugh it into the reject pile. But of course, the OER conferences are not your best laced conference formats.
Weeks passed and Hahahahagastaha they accepted my proposal. Now all I needed to do was write the full poem, which I successfully procrastinated to the week before I would jump on a plane to Cork.
Well actually I did do something earlier— the T shirt! Months ago I had made a PhotoShop mashup image in response to something Stephen Downes posted in Mastodon about “getting Federated”. My associative trails brain went to the opening scenes of the original <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Get_Smart">Get Smart TV show</a> when Don Adams ax Maxwell Smart entered the CONTROL building through that series of cl as aging secret doors.
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<a href="https://flickr.com/photos/cogdog/52473092593"><img decoding="async" loading="lazy" src="https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52473092593_129d3f853b_b.jpg" alt="Get Federated!" width="1024" height="738" /></a>
</div><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><a href="https://flickr.com/photos/cogdog/52473092593">Get Federated!</a> flickr photo by <a href="https://flickr.com/people/cogdog">cogdogblog</a> shared into the public domain using <a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication (CC0)</a></figcaption></figure>
I made an image from a frame of the opening scened, clone brushed out the “SMART” text and replace with closest match I could find, Georgia. Because I had the Federarex text created already, I simply deleted the car layer and recreate the “Get” in the same Georgia font size. 
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<figure class="aligncenter size-full"><img data-attachment-id="74110" data-permalink="https://cogdogblog.com/2024/03/get-federated-got-gasta/get-federated-shirt/" data-orig-file="https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/get-federated-shirt.jpg" data-orig-size="600,600" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="get-federated-shirt" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/get-federated-shirt.jpg" data-large-file="https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/get-federated-shirt.jpg" decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="600" height="600" src="https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/get-federated-shirt.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-74110" srcset="https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/get-federated-shirt.jpg 600w, https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/get-federated-shirt-150x150.jpg 150w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Get Federated T-shirt by me, CC BY– Text in Georgia Font <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fediverse_logo_proposal_%28mono_version%29.svg">Fediverse logo proposal by Eukombos</a> (CC0)</figcaption></figure></div>
The t-shirt was printed locally maybe 2 weeks before I headed to Ireland, what else would I need? Hmmm!! Oh I had to write the poem I would read.
Cori suggested 5 minutes was long for a slam poem so I came up with the idea of the opening sequence being something like the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movietone_News">WWII era MovieTone news reels</a> where I talked like a radio announcer about the going from the glory days of academic twitter to the state of the internet now. But even broader.
And as good fortune goes, after having Anne-Marie Scott in a live stream OEWeek session, she messaged and asked me if I knew what I had gotten myself into. I thought so, an energetic, unconventional format for a talk. What Anne-Marie carefully described was two approaches for Gasta, to finish just in time and avoid Tom Farelly getting the crowd to count me down. “that’s all fine, you will get polite applause.”
The other path to take was to design to get Tom trying to countdown, and try sometime to rouse the crowd and disrupt him.Anne Marie shared a clip of Jim Groom doing this at OER23 where they laughingly were shouting at each other and crushing the audience.
Need I tell you which route spoke to me?
For <a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1lCrrI8YsayY4luW04ywcWXmjP60AyvzS-BipDbc_7HU/edit?usp=sharing">quote/unquote slides</a>, I went for an animated GIF for the news part, and then just the fediverse logo over one of those internet maps.
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I did not want to tie it to a specific series of slides, so the poem would be with just one image.
The poetry writing came together like the abstract, I wrote a few paragraphs, and Cori broke up into chunks and a rhythmic structure, It was thus written, but that’s hardly done! I had to read it through many times, where Cori patiently guided me on how to speak it, where to keep my voice low, where to go bam bam bam.
(see the <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TxUhQ5er7Yu-ZY00cD0EQN7pe4fT_x8N-yajBjx6EM8/edit?usp=sharing">Get Federated poem in a Google Doc</a>)
I read the script several to many times, and trying to gauge the timing to get the desired effect. On Thursday my stomach was a bit churned as I questioned myself if (a) people would say WTF and not understand or (b) the call to get Federated would sound outlandish.
Well… it was damned fun. And if you do not know it, I am a card carrying Meyers Brigg IMTP introvert.
Thanks OER24 for putting me in stage, thanks everyone for getting in the spirit, and thank you my darling Cori for believing in me so much.
It was fun, but also, I am serious about getting g more people on the federated train. My real goal is to organize something like <a href="https://connect.oeglobal.org/t/get-federated-with-oe-global/6468">a 2 week series of posts in our OEG Connect space </a> where anyone interested could do a daily 20 minute activity (or do it all in one sitting) all aimed at getting a group up to speed in creating a Mastodon account. setting up profile, finding and following others, and maybe, just maybe building a networked connective body of educators.
But that’s enough blathering about the making of– the moment of doing it was pure fun, even if people had no ides what I was ranting about. 
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="74112" data-permalink="https://cogdogblog.com/2024/03/get-federated-got-gasta/crowdimg_8298/" data-orig-file="https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/crowdIMG_8298-scaled.jpg" data-orig-size="2560,1490" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="crowdIMG_8298" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/crowdIMG_8298-760x442.jpg" data-large-file="https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/crowdIMG_8298-1280x745.jpg" decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="1280" height="745" src="https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/crowdIMG_8298-1280x745.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-74112" srcset="https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/crowdIMG_8298-1280x745.jpg 1280w, https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/crowdIMG_8298-760x442.jpg 760w, https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/crowdIMG_8298-1536x894.jpg 1536w, https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/crowdIMG_8298-2048x1192.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Rousing up the Gasta, photo by Cori Saas who was watching live from Moose Jaw.</figcaption></figure>
If you even have an opportunity to do a Gasta, and I was honoured to be among a group of 9 others who braved the count down, I say seize the chance, and also, push your self to so something that will make Tom Farelly’s eyes twinkle.
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Featured Image: The best I could do working from my iphone on a plane, a combination of my Gasta Badges and the get Federated logo created with the diptic app
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<title>Scraping all Bird Droppings from Pechaflickr</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2024 00:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Not that it means a hill of garbanzo beans to anyone, but I’ve pretty much stuck a fork in Twitter, the platform I will only call Twitter. I’m not deleting, I just logged out. Still, I have a number of projects, web sites, of trace importance to most but me, that are still encrusted with […]]]></description>
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Not that it means a hill of garbanzo beans to anyone, but I’ve pretty much stuck a fork in Twitter, the platform I will only call Twitter. I’m not deleting, I just logged out.
Still, I have a number of projects, web sites, of trace importance to most but me, that are still encrusted with Twitter features. The big looming one is the theme I made for the <a href="https://daily.ds106.us/">DS106 Daily Create</a> where I have made small steps to have it post new Challenges to Mastodon, caltered the prompts with instructions to do so, and lately, also added a Share to Mastodon button. I still have to get deep in the old code and change out the harvesting from Twitter for replies (which the Dark Lord of Twitter killed when it took away the API).
I also managed to add share to mastodon buttons to <a href="https://docsify.cogdog.casa/?basePath=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cogdog/edtechaphors/master&homepage=README.md#/">my fleet of edtech generators</a> — try <a href="https://code.cog.dog/edtechaphors/">this version of the original Ed Tech Metaphors</a> first spawned by Martin Weller, each spin has two share buttons (I left twitter is an an option, but it can be removed if you make a copy of the code). The Mastodon sharing here uses the nifty <a href="https://mastodonshare.com/">Mastodon Share service</a>.
For some reason I was looking at my old <a href="https://pechaflickr.net">pechaflickr gizmo</a>, which I have to admit is one of my favorite web things I made, still running as it was intended to since 2011. It let’s you generate a pechakucha style slide show made from randomly selected photos chosen from a tag in flickr, all making for a fun improv style activity. Minutes of entertainment.
A round of pechaflickr not only ends with a Share to Twitter button, but the front page featured an embedded twitter timeline for the <a rel="tag" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://cogdogblog.com/tag/pechaflickr/">#pechaflickr</a> hashtag, which has not been updated since that functionality too was taken away by musky melon head.
That’s all gone, after a round of coding that took me way too long! I am rusty. I could not use the Mastodon Share method because the text I wanted to include included characters that eneded up encoded. I went with the approach I found for the Daily Create, <a href="https://github.com/codepo8/mastodon-share">a Share on Mastodon button</a> that just runs through local HTML and Javascript (it remembers your instance using local storage, no cookies).
Plus since there are three different modes of play –regular photos from tags, then Heather mode, which displays photos but makes you guess the tag, and a fun mode that draws only from the flickr commons.
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="74099" data-permalink="https://cogdogblog.com/2024/03/scraping-bird-poop-from-pechaflickr/screen-shot-218/" data-orig-file="https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Screen-Shot-218.jpg" data-orig-size="2038,962" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="Screen-Shot-218" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Screen-Shot-218-760x359.jpg" data-large-file="https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Screen-Shot-218-1280x604.jpg" decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="1280" height="604" src="https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Screen-Shot-218-1280x604.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-74099" srcset="https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Screen-Shot-218-1280x604.jpg 1280w, https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Screen-Shot-218-760x359.jpg 760w, https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Screen-Shot-218-1536x725.jpg 1536w, https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Screen-Shot-218.jpg 2038w" sizes="(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">The end of a round of pechaflickr provides a button to share to mastodon, it includes a link to run the same settings.</figcaption></figure>
The post includes the number of photos shared and the tag, plus the link to repeat the same thrilling experience:
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<iframe src="https://cosocial.ca/@cogdog/112142440999316908/embed" class="mastodon-embed" style="max-width: 100%; border: 0" width="800" allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen"></iframe><script src="https://cosocial.ca/embed.js" async="async"></script>
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Now for the front page of the site I was lucky to find the <a href="https://gitlab.com/idotj/mastodon-embed-timeline">Mastodon embed timeline widget</a>, that with HTML and Javascript adds a widget to display all kinds of timelines from Mastodon, and specifically for me, one for a hashtag.
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For now, I am the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/pechaflickr">only one on the fediverse using the #pechaflickr tag</a>— but you can join the party <a href="https://pechaflickr.net/">by doing a round of pechaflickr</a> and using the magic button to share your results. 
Okay, 13 years after slapping this tool together — it uses the <a href="https://github.com/dan-coulter/phpflickr">phpFlickr php wrapper</a> (old and not PHP 8 friendly, thats for another day) and the <a href="http://vegas.jaysalvat.com/">Vegas slideshow Javascript library</a> for running the images on a timed sequence.
Oh, and imagine this. I did all of this stuff without a single reach for a prompt box. Pfttttttt.
Stop reading, go play <a href="https://pechaflickr.net">pechaflickr</a>, and share your results…. to Mastodon only.
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Featured Image: <a href="https://flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/8056651554">Hagenbeck’s “Jenny” in North France (LOC)</a> flickr photo by <a href="https://flickr.com/people/library_of_congress">The Library of Congress</a> shared with <a href="https://flickr.com/commons/usage/">no copyright restriction (Flickr Commons)</a> modified to include the pechaflickr logo on the truck and new caption added to the top.
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<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2024 23:24:39 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[In the spirit of Tom’s short tech notes to oneself… I archived a WordPress site I made a few years back for Cori’s high schools students to do some (anonymous) online writing. The site is really just to keep as an archive (and honestly it would be better to convert to static HTML, put that […]]]></description>
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In the spirit of <a href="https://bionicteaching.com/">Tom’s short tech notes to oneself</a>… 
I archived a WordPress site I made a few years back for Cori’s high schools students to do some (anonymous) online writing. The site is really just to keep as an archive (and honestly it would be better to convert to static HTML, put that on my list).
But it gets hammered for some reason by login attempts, all stopped by the <a href="https://en-ca.wordpress.org/plugins/limit-login-attempts-reloaded/">Limit Logins Reloaded plugin</a>. They cant do anything since all the user accounts have been set to subscriber. I just wondered what else I can do to cut them off before trying- I am sure there are w variety of Other Things One Can Do, so I just spent a little time poking around the webz.
The first suggestion was disablinbg XMP_RPC which whatever it is enabloes login from other devices, services. This weas an easy add to the custom child theme’s functions.php template:
<pre class="crayon-plain-tag">add_filter( 'xmlrpc_enabled', '__return_false' );</pre>
The other suggestion was to install the <a href="http://WPS Hide Login">WPS Hide Login plugin</a> which redirects all attempts to use standard WordPress login URLs, and all non-logged in efforts to hit wp-admin (used the default redirect to 404). It then allows me to create a super secret, non standard URL to access the WordPress login.
I’m just curious if this cuts down the activity more, but really I should just archive it fully as a static HTML and that means a STOP to all the annoying efforts.
It is illustrative to witness, at a much smaller scale than what your humble network managers see every minute, how much traffic there is in these cracking efforts.
If anyone has better or working solutions, my ears are all open.
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Featured Image: Mine. Who needs AI generators when I got 76000 photos? <a href="https://flickr.com/photos/cogdog/41464238452">Somebody STOP:</a> flickr photo by <a href="https://flickr.com/people/cogdog">cogdogblog</a> shared into the public domain using <a href="https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/">Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication (CC0)</a>
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<title>Redoing the Unfamiliar Familiar</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2024 22:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Somewhere out there a man in Iceland will smile.  I’ve never met, known, or contacted him, but from a Mastodon repost by Joe Murphy, Baldour wrote delightfully about a precious (in terms of value) habit that made me smile: Somewhere this blog may light up an RSS reader in Iceland or maybe Poland or St […]]]></description>
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Somewhere out there a man in Iceland will smile. 
I’ve never met, known, or contacted him, but from a Mastodon repost by Joe Murphy, Baldour wrote delightfully about a precious (in terms of value) habit that made me smile:
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Somewhere this blog may light up an RSS reader in Iceland or maybe Poland or St Louis. I will never know. And that is the right write space, to be writing here, not for comments (but hallo Tom) or reposts or anything but just for my own self fulfillment.
Welcome to the blog navel gazing, the blog’s oldest topic profession, blogging about blogging or blogging about non blogging. If you just write on LinkedIn, shrug, I guess it can work as much as if it was scribbling in a paper journal.
The unfamiliar is where I sit now, a seat that I used to seek, maybe crave, wedged into the vinyl cushion of 14F right shoulder pressed to a plastic wall, a portal view to cloud tops under a single hued sky.
Yep, on a plane. Writing offline in a Google doc.
This was 6, 8, 10 years ago the familiar. I got caught up in the thrill of travel, the airport takes, that I was off doing this as my work. Whether its pandemic echoes or just the extra tree rings in my trunk, it’s now, thankfully unfamiliar. Somewhat unsettling.
I will just say it and leave a guessed explanation to simmer up. I am overly fortunate to be up in these clouds, and there will be fortuitous things that come from this, but it just does not feel like it did once. I see colleagues who still revel in it, the running through airports and selfies in the cabin; I don’t fault them at all, but I can’t really tap into that. It’s unfamiliar.
Not that any kind of *phobia has crept in, I just feel more centered at home where it used to be the opposite. I crave my Ursa time with Cori, our walks to see the minute changes in our property as a result of our efforts to turn our acreage into a more natural habitat.
<figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img data-attachment-id="74075" data-permalink="https://cogdogblog.com/2024/03/unfamiliar-familiar/img_9162/" data-orig-file="https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/img_9162.jpg" data-orig-size="1500,2000" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"1.78","credit":"","camera":"iPhone 14 Pro","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1710842508","copyright":"","focal_length":"6.86","iso":"80","shutter_speed":"0.00044404973357016","title":"","orientation":"1"}" data-image-title="img_9162" data-image-description="" data-image-caption="" data-medium-file="https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/img_9162-760x1013.jpg" data-large-file="https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/img_9162-1280x1707.jpg" decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="1280" height="1707" src="https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/img_9162-1280x1707.jpg" class="wp-image-74075" srcset="https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/img_9162-1280x1707.jpg 1280w, https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/img_9162-760x1013.jpg 760w, https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/img_9162-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/img_9162.jpg 1500w" sizes="(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption">Just one of many new trees Cori and I have added to our property. We have forest plans! This pic will be shared under CC0 when I get around to uploading to flickr.</figcaption></figure>
Into the time / space distortion machine I go. With camera, with blog, with mind.
I’ve blathered on far too long, without marqueeing my destination. Maybe I will spare you, if there is a you, it’s just me here now at the keyboard. There might be a parallel here to that disembodied sensation of presenting in an online video session. You can only imagine an audience, a reader, but you get no or only trace sense back that anyone is there. Or if they are there, they are not far away in a different window.
Did you see how I went off track? That’s my style no AI generator can generate. 
Yet.
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So… right now I am headed from home pin in Saskatchewan to Vancouver but that’s not the destination. I then reverse in a long jump to London and then… to Cork, Ireland!!! 
WTF is with me? I should relish this trip! Or mustard it, I actually do not relish relish. 
I missed getting to see Ireland in 2018 after OER18 because of a problem that came up with my vision after the conference in Bristol.
Yes I will be at <a href="https://www.oer2024.co.uk/">OER24</a> next week, the first in person one I have been at since 2018 (Bristol) and 2014 before that (Newcastle). I remember the locations well.
I would not typically travel just for a conference (nothing against OERXX they are amongst my better experiences). No, my OEGlobal colleagues decided our globally distributed team could use a few days of in person meetings to get more focused planning and ideating than our online meetings. There is also a gathering of our Board members too. So it’s all strategic.
It will be of course most fulfilling to reconnect with the UK+ community and colleagues here; I do have to remember from my October trip to Edmonton for our conference, that for all my belief that we can and do have meaningful experiences online, there is a warmer sense being in a real room. 
I’ve not felt much that I have to present say to a conference audience, I am craving more being in the audience. But note I am doing something unusual in a 5 minute slot, that I am sure will leave my work colleagues perplexed.
Some of the lethargy too is knowing my brain that plans and criticizes said plans may very well likely over estimate what the body that carried it around can still withstand.
The physical energy lately has waned some and there have been a few unblogged health “things” — not wanting to label issues. But seeing the changes and loss too in my peer circle, that constant undertone of feeling my finiteness, even though not anywhere near it, is imaginable.
Oh what an uplifting post! I need to insert a cute animal picture or a happy cup of coffee one.
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And then I can maybe just leave this nattering out of the blog publish screen, but— I’ve gone this far, I believe more in just sending it out to the echo less space, maybe the ripples can reach a guy in Iceland. And if not, no matter. 
The ripples go out and sometimes if you are lucky they come back, but that’s not the reason for generating them.
Hey Baldour!
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<title>Remembering Who I Can’t Remember</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2024 04:18:39 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was a calendar reminder of the death of a man 67 years ago that I don’t know. That as my mother’ father, aka Harry Herondorf aka my grandfather. I’ve previously written what I could in 2014, but I have found a few more shreds. The most interesting is a photo my suster shared recently, […]]]></description>
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Yesterday was a calendar reminder of the death of a man 67 years ago that I don’t know. 
That as my mother’ father, aka Harry Herondorf aka my grandfather. I’ve previously written what I could in 2014, but I have found a few more shreds.
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The most interesting is a photo my suster shared recently, maybe the only one I have seen of my mother’s entire family. 
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This indeed was Dorothy and Herbie’s wedding, <a href="https://cogdogblog.com/2023/11/the-last-herondorf/">she being the only living person in the photo</a>. I spent some time and blog space <a href="https://cogdogblog.com/2024/01/stories-of-aunt-doris/comment-page-1/">documenting my Uncle Harvey and his later wife, Doris</a>. My aunt Ruth, the oldest also lived so far the longest, passed away last year at 101 – s<a href="https://cogdogblog.com/2021/03/aunt-ruth-at-100-no-today-show-jam-but-shrug-army-footlocker/">he made it to 100 on the Smucker’s jam jar, but missed her air time on the Today show</a>.
My mom and have told stories, some I recorded, <a href="https://cogdogblog.com/2014/12/voices-from-aisquith-street/">from their childhood home on Aisquith Street in Baltimore</a>. I think about their life there, as it was durig the Depression, but never heard it as dire times. She knew they were poor, but they always had food and shelter. Harry Herondorf was a self-employed shoemaker, and I guess people always needed show repairs. They have photos, and it makes me wonder too about investing in something like a camera in hard times. Mom said her father would rig up a backyard play space with a hose spreading water from up on high, that he liked to play practical jokes, that we would bring home a live fish that wa sput in their bathtub, and only later appearing on plates as “gefilte fish.”
She also said that her father loved growing tomatoes in his hard, and he would pickle them and share wth neighbors. Maybe that’s where I get my interest in gardening?
Their family moved later “uptown” to Garrison Avenue, where Mom would have lived in high school, where eventually a young man named Morris ran over to woo her.
I have a photo of Harry dated “1/55” which I must have made a copy of visiting my Aunt Dorothy in 2012.
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" data-medium-file="https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/harry1955-8173806699_2cd7beafa7_o-760x570.jpg" data-large-file="https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/harry1955-8173806699_2cd7beafa7_o-1280x959.jpg" decoding="async" loading="lazy" width="1280" height="959" src="https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/harry1955-8173806699_2cd7beafa7_o-1280x959.jpg" alt="" class="wp-image-74061" srcset="https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/harry1955-8173806699_2cd7beafa7_o-1280x959.jpg 1280w, https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/harry1955-8173806699_2cd7beafa7_o-760x570.jpg 760w, https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/harry1955-8173806699_2cd7beafa7_o-1536x1151.jpg 1536w, https://cogdogblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/harry1955-8173806699_2cd7beafa7_o-2048x1535.jpg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px" /></a><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><a href="https://flickr.com/photos/cogdog/8173806699">One Grandfather</a> flickr photo by <a href="https://flickr.com/people/cogdog">cogdogblog</a> shared under a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">Creative Commons (BY) license</a></figcaption></figure>
He looks pretty serious, but also might be gesturing as if in the middle of conversation. That looks like an ash tray, he might have been smoking. His obituary says he passed away in 1957, and a clue at the bottom is that i asks for donations to be made to the Cancer Society. That makes him having lived 75 years, noting from other records he was born September, 1881 in “Keltz”, Poland which I gather means <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kielce">Kielce, Poland</a> that was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kielce_Ghetto">turned into a Jewish Ghetto</a> by Nazis in the 1940s.
Harry emigrated to the US long before this, arriving in Baltimore in 1913 and naturalized in 1923. Ancestry.com lists him as single in 1920 and living in a boarding house. By the 1930 census he was married to Ida, and listed the 5 children plus a mother-in-law on Aisquith Street.
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The oldest child listed, my Aunt Ruth, is listed as 9 here, so his marriage must have been in 1920 or 1921. Mom’s story was it was arranged by a matchmaker, which must have been a real thing and not <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59Hj7bp38f8">just a song</a>.
The last bit of newer evidence / information for Harry is his draft registration card dated 1942, when he was 49 years old– were they really registering potential soldiers that old? (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selective_Training_and_Service_Act_of_1940#:~:text=After%20the%20United%20States%20entered,18%20and%2064%20to%20register.">yes says Wikipedia, they registered up to age 64 but drafted only 18-45</a>).
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Small things here, at age 49, my grandfather was my same height (5 foot 9) but a trim 150 pounds, and a noticeable scar on the right side of his leg. I also note that the address of the childhood home of my mom is listed as the address of his business, a shoe shop. So when they moved uptown, the busines stayed where it was.
And lastly the address of the Herondorf family home in 1942 I can find and gaze at in Google Streetview
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That’s not much of a story, but the rest of life here is left for me to imagine or draw inferences from the meager records I have.
That’s the extent of what of know of ya, Grandpa Harry. You did well.
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Featured image: Detail of Herondorf family photo with superimposed the text from Harry Herondorf’s registration card. I made this and can slap on a Creative Commons CC BY license, as if anyone except the ever scraping and never asking AI.
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