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Live From The Games:: Shani Davis Wins Gold!!!
18/02/2010 · Leave a Comment
Categories: D.I.Y. · World Wide Web · inspiration
Tagged: green collar rap, inspiration, sports, shani davis, gold, olympics, 1000 meters, speed skate
Why Twitter Will Endure
06/01/2010 · Leave a Comment
David Carr New York Times
I can remember when I first thought seriously about Twitter. Last March, I was at the SXSW conference, a conclave in Austin, Tex., where technology, media and music are mashed up and re-imagined, and, not so coincidentally, where Twitter first rolled out in 2007. As someone who was oversubscribed on Facebook, overwhelmed by the computer-generated RSS feeds of news that came flying at me, and swamped by incoming e-mail messages, the last thing I wanted was one more Web-borne intrusion into my life.
And then there was the name. Twitter.
In the pantheon of digital nomenclature — brands within a sector of the economy that grew so fast that all the sensible names were quickly taken — it would be hard to come up with a noun more trite than Twitter. It impugns itself, promising something slight and inconsequential, yet another way to make hours disappear and have nothing to show for it. And just in case the noun is not sufficiently indicting, the verb, “to tweet” is even more embarrassing.
Beyond the dippy lingo, the idea that something intelligent, something worthy of mindshare, might occur in the space of 140 characters — Twitter’s parameters were set by what would fit in a text message on a phone — seems unlikely.
But it was clear that at the conference, the primary news platform was Twitter, with real-time annotation of the panels on stage and critical updates about what was happening elsewhere at a very hectic convention. At 52, I succumbed, partly out of professional necessity.
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Categories: Tech · World Wide Web · social
Tagged: green collar rap, social, Tech, twitter, network, david carr
Vonage releases calling app for iPhone, BlackBerry
05/10/2009 · Leave a Comment
AP-NEW YORK — Vonage Holdings Corp., a pioneer in Internet-based home phone service, is launching applications for the iPhone and BlackBerry that undercut the international calling rates of major wireless carriers.
The free programs let users place calls that are routed over Vonage’s network, at least for the international leg.
The calls are placed as local wireless calls, using up minutes on the cell phone plan, although the iPhone will use Wi-Fi instead if that’s available. (That works as well on the iPhone’s sibling, the iPod Touch, which goes online only with Wi-Fi.) Vonage then carries the calls to their overseas destination.
The fact that the Vonage app for the iPhone can use the cellular voice channel is unusual. Several other voice-over-Internet Protocol, or VoIP, apps for the iPhone and iPod Touch can already place calls over Wi-Fi. But Google Inc.’s Voice application, which is designed to use the cellular network, has not been approved. (more…)
Categories: Tech · World Wide Web
Tagged: App, Blackberry, green collar rap, iPhone, Tech, Vonage
Have you been “Tagged”?
09/07/2009 · Leave a Comment
Have you received an email for a social network claiming that someone you know has posted pictures for you to see? Then you click on the link and fill out the account info just to find out there never were any pictures… You begin to think to yourself, hmmmm. Then the phone calls and emails of your friends start pouring in asking you about the pictures you just set them. “What pictures?”After all the confusion, you figure it out.
An e-mail message inviting people to join The Tagged.com website says it’s from a friend, but looks suspicious. Sometimes it’s a private message or photos, but this trick is not a new one. It will ask you to supply an e-mail address and a password, and if you do, it can access your entire address book and send e-mails to your contacts — doing the same thing to them.
Fortunately, I haven’t been targeted by this spam virus yet. But here are a few ways to protect yourself.
1. Be Smart. If the email doesn’t look familiar, DO NOT OPEN IT! If it is from one of your friends, they will contact you to find out if you received it or not.
2. Proxy Email Address. Speaking from experience, set up an email address with no contacts that you can use to register sites with. Then set up a gmail account under a different name to forward the first account to. This way, if you really want to open that strange email you can do it in the proxy account and delete it from your gmail and protect your contacts.
3. Protect Your Personal Information. Before you give out any personal information over the phone or via the Internet, contact the supposed sender to make sure you know who you’re dealing with. Make sure the website you use to verify identification is legitimate. Do NOT just copy and paste a URL given to you in a suspicious e-mail into your browser!
Categories: Tech · World Wide Web
Tagged: computers, green collar rap, idenitity theft, internet, spam, tagged.com, Tech
How Secret Are Your Account’s Secret Questions?
24/06/2009 · Leave a Comment
I was opening a new soundclould.com account the other day, filling out the necessary information until I came to the most frequntly asked question besides your first and last name. The Secret Question. Everyone has answered it. “What’s your grade school teacher’s name?” “What’s your favorite pet’s name?” How about “What’s you mother’s maiden name?”
These question are supposed to protect your accounts from hackers breaking into your vitals and doing unmentionables to you. But I found out through a New Scientist Study that it is not as safe as we would like to believe. So Stuart Schechter and Rob Reeder of Microsoft has a new idea that could be safer. Check it out and let me know what you think.
Categories: D.I.Y. · Global Environmental News · Tech · World Wide Web
Tagged: green collar rap, microsoft, secret questions, security, Tech, unsafe, World Wide Web
Should Obama Control The Internet?
20/04/2009 · 3 Comments
- By Steve Aquino – April 02, 2009 – Mother Jones
A new bill would give the President emergency authority to halt web traffic and access private data. – Should President Obama have the power to shut down domestic Internet traffic during a state of emergency?
Senators John Rockefeller (D-W. Virginia) (202) 224-6472 – and Olympia Snowe (R-Maine) (202) 224-5344 – think so. – On Wednesday they introduced a bill to establish the Office of the National Cybersecurity Advisor–an arm of the executive branch that would have vast power to monitor and control Internet traffic to protect against threats to critical cyber infrastructure. That broad power is rattling some civil libertarians.
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http://www.treehuggersofamerica.org/Should_Obama_Control_Internet.php
Categories: Global Environmental News · Politics · World Wide Web
Tagged: barack obama, green collar rap, Politics, World Wide Web
Hackers hit U.S. power grid – could disrupt electricity, water, and sewage
09/04/2009 · Leave a Comment
April 8th 2009
International spies have penetrated the U.S. power grid, leaving software that could be used to further disrupt the nation’s infrastructure, FOX News confirmed Wednesday.
U.S. officials believe the culprits are be spies from a number of countries including Russia and China, though the Washington embassies for both nations deny any state involvement. “The Chinese have attempted to map our infrastructure, such as the electrical grid,” a senior intelligence official told the Wall Street Journal. “So have the Russians.”
Intrusions of this nature have been occurring over the past few years. Spies have infiltrated not only the electrical power system, but the water and sewage systems as well. There is concern that other critical systems could be compromised at a later date.
“Over the past several years, we have seen cyberattacks against critical infrastructures abroad, and many of our own infrastructures are as vulnerable as their foreign counterparts,” Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair told lawmakers. “A number of nations, including Russia and China, can disrupt elements of the U.S. information infrastructure.”
Categories: Global Environmental News · Tech · World Wide Web
Tagged: green collar rap, hackers, power grid, U.S., World Wide Web
The Conflicker Worm::April Fool’s Joke or Unthinkable Disaster?
20/03/2009 · Leave a Comment
By John Markoff of The NY Times
The Conficker worm is scheduled to activate on April 1, and the unanswered question is: Will it prove to be the world’s biggest April Fool’s joke or is it the Information Age equivalent of Herman Kahn’s legendary 1962 treatise about nuclear war, “Thinking About the Unthinkable”?
Conficker is a program that is spread by exploiting several weaknesses in Microsoft’s Windows operating system. Various versions of the software have spread widely around the globe since October, mostly outside the United States because there are more unpatched, pirated Windows computers overseas. (The program does not infect Macintosh or Linux-based computers.)
An estimated 12 million or more machines have been infected. However, many have also been disinfected, so a precise census is difficult to obtain. (more…)
Categories: D.I.Y. · Tech · World Wide Web
Tagged: conflicker worm, green collar rap, help, World Wide Web
Where Are Our Green Visionaries?
19/03/2009 · Leave a Comment
Written By: Rosslyn BeebyRosslyn Beeby is science and environment reporter with The Canberra Times. She writes about the lighter and darker shades of green issues.
There's a wave of green euphoria sweeping cyberspace following the announcement that environmental and social justice activist Van Jones will be special adviser on green jobs to the Obama administration.
Here in Australia, we're green with political envy at such a visionary appointment. The United States has Van the Man to advance climate and energy policy initiatives. We've got Kevin, Penny, Peter and Martin – world's best practice climate change laggards, coal-fired power apologists and policy obfuscators. The US will get green jobs and exciting new industries. We'll keep on getting spin-speak policy waffle, framed to protect the interests of political donors. Is there no light on the horizon? (more...)
Categories: Global Environmental News · World Wide Web
Tagged: environment, green collar rap, green visionaries, rosslyn beeby, van jones, World Wide Web
Remix:Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy by Lawrence Lessig
09/01/2009 · Leave a Comment
Provided By: The Complete Review
In Remix Lawrence Lessig finds copyright (in the US, the focus of the book — international issues are almost entirely ignored) has gone hopelessly wrong as new technology has led to such fundamental changes that it must be entirely reconsidered. He’s particularly concerned with the ‘war’ waged against ‘the kids’, meaning the fight against (illegal) downloading and peer-to-peer (p2p) file sharing. As he notes, the crackdown on this activity has had only very limited success, and he believes the harm caused — including by forcing kids into this murky moral ground where they’re told what they’re doing is wrong, but they see everyone does it (and for the most part can’t really see much harm in it) — is considerable.
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Categories: Books · Culture · Law · Politics · Tech · Work & Career · World Wide Web · social
Tagged: Art, Book Review, Commerce, green collar rap, Hybrid Economy, Law, Lawrence Lessig, Remix, Tech, the complete review
