Canned for comment
Comments and Tweets can cost you your job. Yahoo news reported that a newspaper editor in Australia was recently fired for commenting on Facebook about an upcoming story. His error: posting that a local murder was going to boost newspaper sales, that death is good for business. Read the story here. This is the second […]
Can’t block Zuckerberg
Creating the most successful social networking site of all time has its perks – the ability to view any users’ photos or personal information. In the fracas over Facebook’s recent privacy woes, its has been reported by Tech Crunch that the only person users cannot block on Facebook is the creator. Like Myspace’s infamous ‘Tom,’ […]
Facecreeping by employers soon to be illegal in Germany
The New York Times has reported that German lawmakers are about to make it illegal for employers to research job candidates using social networking sites. The move would add Facebook screening to an increasing list of ‘no-goes’ when it comes to unauthorized pre-employee screening. The move has been celebrated by Internet watch-dog sites, though the […]
Will throttling affect online publishing?
This is something to keep an eye on: throttling. As internet file sharing continues to erode publishing and copyright revenue, will throttling, or pay-for-speed internet presence, be the ‘net tax’ that solves the web publishing quagmire? [linebreak] Few people have been talking about throttling in this sense, but I suspect that sooner or later, paying […]
Workers banned from using net
They knew it was bad, but not this bad. The BBC reported this week that the country Jordon has blocked access to over fifty websites on computers in government offices. The move came after government investigations showed that employee’s were spending more than three hours per day searching the web. Read the story here, and […]
Zombie Cookies
For the past year, Adobe Flash has been reinstalling cookies that have been deleted by users through its popular viewing application. Known as ‘Zombie Cookies,’ these are secret cookies that, without consent, are re-activated after users have disabled them. [linebreak] Cookies are used to track unique web searches and store bits of information that allow […]
The “Panic” Button has arrived
Along with a whole slew of simplified privacy settings, Facebook has added another safety-made-simple feature: the panic button. The button is an application that is available to those whose age on their FB profile says they are a minor. [linebreak] The button links youth directly to a reporting and resource agency where they can enquire […]
Are we as connected as we think?
A great article appeared on the BBC website this past week discussing the most recent TED talks in which Harvard academic, Ethan Zuckerman, said that the Internet is not living up to its ‘promise.’ His argument is an interesting one. [linebreak] Highlighting social behavior on the net, Zuckerman said the social world of internet users […]
The rise of on-line cheating
A recent story by the Vancouver Sun said that on-line based acts 0f academic dishonesty have tripled in the past five years at Canadian universities. Using data from the University of Waterloo, plagiarism was highlighted as the most common form of cheating. The revelation is certainly a shock, but it shouldn’t be that much of […]
Fired for Tweet
Hold that thought. No really. Hold that thought. We all have opinions. At the water cooler an opinion is between you, the person beside you, and the hearsay network of the person who cares enough to repeat your ranting. Twitter, however, is not a person, it is a broadcast network, something people often forget when […]
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