Yesterday, I was listening to Bruce Schneier’s talk at DefCon 15. As always, fantastic. While some of it was familiar, one new bit I picked up from him is the legal ramifications of not owning the data we create. We don’t know when it’s being used for secondary purposes. “And the 4th Amendment doesn’t work …
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Tyler Cowen Mostly Cloudly on Cumul.us
Ben and I have been exchanging late-night previews of our respective side projects for a while now. The idea behind Ben’s project – Cumul.us asks, can we turn the weather into Wikipedia? (Wisdom of the clouds – hehe). Will we get better weather predictions from it? Dunno. From what I’ve seen of the site, it’ll …
Client Blogging: Joanne Henry’s Laptop Stolen
When Joanne and I set up her weblog, she had a brand new MacBook Pro. No longer. “I’m really missing my laptop – taken from our office while two of us sat on the other side of a half wall. We heard a small click and that was all.” – Joanne Henry Joanne, I’m sorry …
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Client Blogging: Joanne Henry
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been setting up a blog for Joanne Henry co-founder of the Henry Schafer Partners marketing. When I sat down to walk her through WordPress, she already had 3 posts ready to go. She’s been steady since. Which is great, her writing style is perfect for blogging – informal, …
Blogumentary now on Google Video
Just got word that Chuck Olsen put his film Blogumentary all up on Google Video. Congrats Chuck. Chuck and I talked about the film back at First Crack #18 and I reviewed the film way, way, back in First Crack #6.
The Only Time News Happens
“We only offer content* at 6:00-6:30 p.m” – Rex Sortgatz Ha! * blacklisted buzzword
Ze Frank vs. RocketBoom – What Counts?
It’s great that Andrew got on my TiVo, great that he’s on phones, getting the traditional media comfortable with alternative distribution methods. Andrew deserves our thanks for going down this road (it’s not one that sounds like fun to me). To his credit, I can’t tell the difference between RocketBoom and the news from local …
RE: What this Website Looks Like
Ben has some recommendations for wordpress publishers using the Hemingway theme (like I am of this writing). While I agree with some of his suggestions – the undercurrent of the entire discussion is that visual presentation doesn’t really matter – let alone main pages. Search engines shouldn’t index the main page of a blog (cause …
Leo Laporte Gives Up on Podcasting
I’ve subscribed to the Daily Giz Wiz for quite a while now – the combination of goofy banter, unloved gadgets, generally silliness, and it’s brevity makes for great podcasting. It’s the only TWIT-family podcast I was still subscribed. Unfortunately, in today’s – #166 – the new TWIT intro calls it a ‘netcast’. Lame. What’s a …
Security is Really Customer Service in Disguise
A confused, elderly woman with a full, knotted, plastic shopping bag was in front of the scanner. The security checkpoint line out of Minneapolis stalled as I put all my stuff in multiple bins. When a uniformed TSA person asked her if she had a boarding pass, she mumbled the need for help getting a …
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