Kathleen Kalk
Blogs shift with the times
A recent article in the New York Times, highlights an interesting shift in how people are sharing online. Self-published blogs, once a primary means for sharing personal stories, opinions, and, well, anything that strikes one’s fancy, appear to be on the wane, at least among young people. According to a survey from the Internet and […]
Facebook Now Adding a Secure Connection
Big news in Facebook security settings. And it’s positive! Last week, Facebook announced they will offer users a more secure connection – encrypted HTTPS protocol instead of HTTP protocol. Similar to the type of secure connection you have when you do online banking, this protocol prevents others from capturing your “cookie” and accessing your account when you […]
Posting from home gets workers fired
Social Networking has expanded the reach of employee/employer relations. Two workers at a BC car dealership were recently terminated for making abusive and defamatory comments about their boss on their Facebook pages while outside of work. Yahoo.ca noted that the employee’s boss caught wind of the comments through the extended networks of the Facebook friends […]
Illegal downloading prosecutions over? Think again
If you thought there was nothing to worrying about, you’re wrong. In a Minnesota courtroom this past month, single mother Jammie Thomas-Rasset, was ordered to pay 62,500 USD per song for 24 songs she illegally downloaded from KaZaA, a popular file sharing site. AFP reported that the total fine given was an astronomical 1.5 million dollars. […]
Controversial South African threatens to shut Twitter
Phweeter: an imposter tweeter Julius Malema, the controversial youth leader of South Africa’s governing ANC (and recent hate speech convict), is battling a new front to salvage his reputation – this time against Twitter. The divisive politicien has threatened to shut Twitter down if it does not address the not one, not two, but 12 phweeters tweeting in […]
“Could you patent the sun?”
Despite all the ink dedicated to open access as a new publishing model it is in fact an old way. Take for example, Dr. Jonas Salk. Unknown thousands, maybe even you, owe their ability to walk to Dr. Salk. How so? He invented the vaccine for Polio in 1952. The research, creation, and funding of […]
Copyright Cowboy
If you have an interest in copyright law and have not already watched Rip!: A remix manifesto, you need to check it out. The director’s politics are a bit heavy handed but the point is eye opening: copyright law has not always been what copyright law is today. Using mash-up music artist Girl Talk as […]
Word of Mouse
This blog is just a quick shout out to the unheralded good social media and social networks have brought to the consumer world. While privacy advocates bemoan access to anonymous personal information for advertisement profiling, network users have struck back en masse at ‘the man’ with a bit of profiling of their own. By using […]
“Rules: 16+, stay fully clothed.”
Those are the rules – Welcome to Chatroulette.com With all the hype and infamy about this site, I decide I should check it out for myself. I went to the page. It asked me to allow Chatroulette access to my camera and microphone. I read the rules listed above and gave it a second thought. […]
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