In response to yesterday’s post about all of the various things we see being shared all over the internet, Steven Vore reminded me that Snopes.com is your friend. If you’re not familiar with Snopes.com, you really should be. Snopes is THE place to go and seek out the truth about things before you start sharing…
Remember that State Farm commercial with the lady who “read it on the internet, so it must be true”? The reason that line resonated with so many people is because of the ridiculousness of it. We all know that anyone can start up a website, and write anything they want, without bothering to fact check…
Cross posted from my Child Abuse Survivor blog, with the following further thought. This is also a good example of why which social network you choose to use, matters. If I had decided that I didn’t like the way Facebook worked, and decided I was going to delete my account and move to Google Plus,…
Not that anyone in the US actually takes theirs, right? After being gone from work for these last two weeks, not to mention being without any internet access for 10 days, I’m beginning to see why that is such a huge mistake. We need the break. Not only that, but I think we’d all do…
Checking in this morning and it appears that the new WordPress feature to automatically update was pretty solid. They even sent me an email letting me know the site had been updated. Nice job WordPress, let’s hope these automatic updates can keep sites from getting hacked, and make the internet a slightly safer place.
As seen on Doc Searls Weekend Outline, there is a new study that shows 1 in 5 Internet users are using some sort of ad-blocking tool. According to the article, that loss of eyeballs is really starting to hurt some sites. It also points out that some of this has been self-inflicted as well. As…