Should we be overly concerned with the information people might be inadvertently sharing on social networks when many still haven’t learned about the dangers of using a cell phone in public? That story reminds me of the time we were taking the train to Chicago and one of our fellow passengers spent part of the…
The big “story” this week has been the website Please Rob Me, which used some basic twitter searches for FourSquare check-in’s to try and convince people that posting where they are meant that anyone would know when they weren’t home. As if there weren’t a hundred easier ways to target someone and know when they…
I ran across this post about ReadTwit over the weekend and was immediately intrigued. I’ve watched as Twitter has become a source of interesting links being passed around by the folks I follow, I’m missing some really great information. Now, as I’ve said before, I have no desire, nor the time, to try and read…
Jenn Steele’s debut column at Legal IT Professionals has some interesting tidbits about what we’re waiting for in terms of law firms spending on IT projects. You should definitely go read all of it, but there were two things I found really interesting and wanted to highlight. The first is one of the two seeming…
I know I’m not the first person to write about this, but today I saw a couple of tweets sent in reply to me, from people I don’t follow or know if any way, that contained links to, well, something. Now, being tech-savvy, naturally suspicious, and generally cautious, I didn’t actually make any attempt to…
Occasionally, I will go through the spam folder in my gmail account, just to make sure there’s nothing in there that I actually want to see. It never fails that there’s some subject line that makes me giggle, just a little. A few weeks ago, I had 6th grade flashbacks when I saw an email…