Alan Levine

Alan Levine feels weird writing about himself in the third person. A 1990s pioneer on the web and early proponent of blogging, he shares his ideas at CogDogBlog.com. His interests include web storytelling (#ds106 #4life), mocking MOOCs, daily photography, bending WordPress, and randomly dipping into the infinite river of the internet.

The Network

My twitter bots and apps have been defecated

Alan Levine on April 21, 2023April 21, 2023

Just typing the “t” word brings all the smelly fetid connotations. Still, twitter can be a swell place, Wally. The writing on the wall is happening for a string of my web sites and some silly experiments that likely the world will not suffer to be without. And while this week we are hearing of the withering of the blue check marks (I am proud now of never seeking nor getting one), worse is ahead as the great business minds […]

Announcements, Miscellaneous

#NetNarr2023: The Human Nature of Writing

Alan Levine on February 3, 2023February 3, 2023

#NetNarr: The Human Nature of Writing is the current version of “Networked Narratives”, the sixth iteration of this unique course, designed in Spring 2023 is being taught by Mia Zamora at Kean University.…

Announcements

On The Air With Check The O.L.

Alan Levine on January 13, 2021January 13, 2021

Mia and are honored to have been invited to talk about #netnarr with Terry Greene and Anne-Marie Scott for an episode of their podcast show Check the O.L.: Liner Notes from Groundbreaking Online Learning

Tune in for the entire conversation:

Listen to “NetNarr with Mia Zamora and Alan Levine” on

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Kean University 2021, The Network

Set Up 20/21

Alan Levine on January 10, 2021January 22, 2021

For students at Kean beng part of this class is setting up accounts on this blog as well as choosing or creating new new ones in twitter. We[e/a]kly Message Each week’s announcement/post here will start with a message done in a different format/mode/tool. Ok, a video shot on a mobile device uploaded to YouTube is hardly novel. But an approach we encourage in NetNarr is also to use media differently from the norm, subvert the channel if you will, even […]

Miscellaneous

NET MIRROR: #netnarr returns in 2020

Alan Levine on January 20, 2020February 3, 2023

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Miscellaneous

#Netnarr Field Digital Alchemy Guide For Digital Wellness In A Post Truth Internet Era

Alan Levine on May 25, 2019

Read the latest issue of the Arganee Journal to see the final projects published by the digital alchemists who were part of 2019 Networked Narratives.

Netnarr in 2019

NetNarr Week 14: Field Guide Finish Line

Alan Levine on April 29, 2019May 25, 2019

This week marks our last in class meeting for the 2019 version of Networked Narratives at Kean University, and students are speeding towards the finish line with their end of semester projects.

Netnarr in 2019

NetNarr Week 13: Exhibition

Alan Levine on April 23, 2019May 25, 2019

As NetNarr moves towards the upcoming exhibition of the Field Guide project, this week we participate in a special event, an art exhibit by one of our own classmates.

Netnarr in 2019

NetNarr Week 12: Doorways for Field Guides

Alan Levine on April 16, 2019May 25, 2019

This week is an in-class working session completely devoted to work on the Field Guide project.

Students will be finalizing the scope of their project, giving and receiving feedback, researching sources, and engaging with their digital alchemist mentors. Use the time for one on one consulting with your instructors.

Netnarr in 2019

#NetNarr Week 11: Meet / Be The Bots

Alan Levine on April 9, 2019May 25, 2019

Meet Sophia, designed by Hanson Robotics as one of “empathetic, living, intelligent machines that enrich our lives.”

Miscellaneous

#NetNarr Week 10: Breathing Life into Digital Alchemists & Digital Wellbeing

Alan Levine on April 2, 2019April 15, 2019

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Netnarr in 2019

#NetNarr Week 10: Breathing Life into Digital Alchemists & Digital Wellbeing

Alan Levine on April 2, 2019May 25, 2019

Our focus for the last segment of #netnarr is on researching and writing a portion of what will become the Digital Alchemist Field Guide – our contribution of light in the darkness of the 2019 internet.

#netarr, api, netarr, splot, The Network, trucollector

The SPLOT Image Truck is Here!

Alan Levine on March 31, 2019

Cue the music… the truck is rolling through your neighborhood, blaring the music, here to deliver random images to all the kids– and the truck is fueled by json. THE SPLOT TRUCK IS HERE! This could be a way for the TRU Collector SPLOT to provide random images that might one day, be an alternative source than flickr for both pechaflickr and Five Card Photo Stories. This would take away concerns over the using flickr as a source (it comes […]

Netnarr in 2019

#NetNarr Week 9: The Art and Message of The GIF

Alan Levine on March 26, 2019April 15, 2019

Conceived as means to send video-like content over extremely limited bandwidth of the late 1908s internet, the Animated GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) has evolved from tiny pixelated cartoonish media to evocative art at the same time becoming a primary way to extend the virality in social media of memes to ones that move.

Announcements, Netnarr in 2019

From Memes to Net Art: #NetNarr Week 8

Alan Levine on March 19, 2019April 15, 2019

Last week we looked at memes – their use and the potential they present for digital alchemy. But can we consider them a kind of art?

This week we will look more deeply at the notion of digital art. And we will consider the way open digital networks might add something extra to the production of digital art.