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Safe blogging

Kudos to the Electronic Frontier Foundation for producing <a title=”EFF:” href=”http://www.eff.org/Privacy/Anonymity/blog-anonymously.php”>How to Blog Safely (About Work or Anything Else)</a> Here’s are a couple of quotes: “If you blog, there are no guarantees you’ll attract a readership of thousands. But at least a few readers will find your blog, and they may be the people you’d […]

Stephen’s Web

I came across Stephen’s Web, http://www.downes.ca/ today. It’s, as you probably already know, Stephen Downes’ blog. Lots of interesting posts and links about online learning and network communities. He’s also the author of OLDaily, a daily journal about online learning. Visit when you get the chance.

History and prediction

Take a look at EPIC 2014. It has a provocative lead-in “In the year 2014, the New York times has gone offline..What happened to the news?”. Then follow the link to the 8 minute video. It’s an interesting piece, combining some history and predictions. All the details are precisely correct – for example, it identifies […]

Social Bookmarking

There are a number of Web sites that let you post your bookmarks and then retrieve them using the Web. They are “social” because others with accounts at these sites can view your bookmarks. It’s getting more and more interesting. These sites provide a nice service that’s been available for awhile, but adding the social […]

Wal-Mart – Daily Show

Jon Stewart had a nice piece on Wal-Mart on the Daily Show. As usual he gets to the essence of their hypocrisy and ours (if we shop there) as well. Lisa Rein has links to the video in her blog, Daily Show On Wal-Mart – Learn Fun Facts From Jon If you’re interested you may […]

View Du Jour 1

January 30, 2005. Some snap shots of a view from our house. It snowed today on top of a nice coating of ice pellets from Saturday evening. That made for some nice scenes as the snow just laid on the branches. These pics were taken from our car port. One is of the neighbor’s (to […]

Compare your height for fun

TallorNot is a fun application available at Ringphone.com. You enter your height and then select names of (other) famous people from a list. A graphic showing comparing your height to theirs is displayed. This is the place to go if you’d like an idea of what it would look like to have you standing next […]

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Phishing getting more sophisticated and dangerous

The article CNN.com – Experts: ‘Phishing’ more sophisticated – Jan 20, 2005 at CNN mentions some new ways that thieves are using techniques related to phishing. The quote “If you think of phishers initially as petty thieves, now they’re more like an organized crime unit,” said Paris Trudeau also ties in with an online interview […]

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The Future of the Internet

Predictions Database is the database supporting the Pew report “The Future of the Internet“. Interesting reading. Here is a summary of the findings: “Summary of Findings at a Glance A broad-ranging survey of technology leaders, scholars, industry officials, and interested members of the public finds that most experts expect attacks on the network infrastructure in […]

Comment on wikipedia and research

apophenia: Academia and Wikipedia states an opinion about using articles in Wikipedia as citations in research papers. The author makes a good point: an entry form Wikipedia is often only form one source, and has not been vetted. There fore, it’s not appropriate as a citation. He appears to be in favor of the project […]