Regarding my previous posts about installing Ubuntu, which I really do like, by the way, I just got a Twitter message from Bubbasan pointing me to the Linux Equivalent Project. This is a pretty cool idea, and there’s some things on there I really hadn’t though about at all, but will be taking a look at over the next weeks and months as I use Ubuntu more and more.
Oh, also, I am seeing some real usefulness from Twitter, I’ll have more about that in upcoming post.
Well, yes, technically speaking any festival that gathers thousands of people in the same place on the same weekend is social in nature. But, I’m specifically talking about an interesting use of online social networking. If you look at the Entertainment Schedule for the Dublin Irish Festival coming up July 31-Aug 2, you’ll see the…
I agree with Sharon on this: “Backdoors don’t work. Government raises sensitive issues around human trafficking and child pornography to inflame the public. What it really wants is to snoop at will on everyone and to deprive Americans of our right to privacy. My opinion, but there it is.” The thing is, while the media…
So the problem is laid out pretty well in this statement: In a press release about the report, Monu Kalsi, vice-president of Shred-it, is quoted as saying, “The study’s findings clearly show that seemingly small habits [of employees] can pose great security risk and add up to large financial, reputational and legal risks.” And the…
As many of you probably know, Twitter is fighting a losing battle with fake news, trolls, etc. They’ve tried a lot of really stupid things to try and, well, to try and make people be something that we aren’t, but that’s another post. Recently, they’ve started putting some serious limits on accounts, limits that are…
I read this recent quote from an article about Ev Williams this week and something seemed oddly familiar about it: The trouble with the internet, Mr. Williams says, is that it rewards extremes. Say you’re driving down the road and see a car crash. Of course you look. Everyone looks. The internet interprets behavior like…
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