Kathleen Kalk
How not to impress your boss
Information spreads fast in the social media era. So if you are going to show off your new top-secret prototype gadget like show and tell at elementary school, you might want to think twice about taking it to the local tavern. Apple’s, Gray Powell, found this out the hard way after losing his precious iPhone […]
Knowing what they don’t want others to know
A recent development in Internet openness by a major search engine may forever change the partnership of secrecy between state searches and net giants. Google recently published a list of government requests for information and pages to be censored from the Internet. This list includes over 40 countries writes the BBC, with Brazil leading the […]
The First Tweet and the American Declaration of Independence
You know you are in the Information Age when a historical infant, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s first tweet from 2006, is shelved next to a historical giant, the American Declaration of Independence, at the US Library of Congress in Washington D.C. The revelation of Twitter’s rapid rise through history has been covered in media outlets […]
Work and browse without getting caught
Anyone who has been busted surfing the net at work will surely find some value in this. While we don’t want to encourage any substandard work behavior at DT, a new program, Decreased Productivity, gives browsers the technology to stay one step ahead of an overzealous over-the-shoulder looking employer, and gives us an interesting cultural […]
Facebook copyright nearly settled
For all those arguing for an Internet free of copyright and a utopia of knowledge, think how you would feel if one of your bright ideas was turned into billions of dollars and you didn’t receive a penny. That’s how the Winklevoss brothers, Cameron and Tyler, use to feel but not for much longer. [linebreak] […]
President Hacked
Truly no one is immune. Anyone who has ever had a snoopy significant other knows the importance of password safety. This past week, US President, Barack Obama, had his Twitter account hacked by someone making a guess. I hate choosing passwords as much as the next guy, but what this goes to show is that […]
Digital Divide Goes Deep
The digital divide debate has been going in a major way since the 1970’s. Back then it was an ideological divide on the floor of UNESCO at the United Nations. Today, it is simply a stark reality between states that are rich and states that are poor. While every new technology has a global lag […]
Copyright, Google and antiquity
A recent story in the European press has revealed that some of the oldest works in the human quiver of knowledge will be added to the e-shelf. Italy’s national library has slated up to one million titles for the scanner box, many of them the original works of philosophy and science pioneers. [linebreak] Standard copyright […]
New media is bad for the brain
While a lot of our site is dedicated to protecting your personal computer, managing your on-line identity, and using the internet to your advantage, we have yet to tackle in depth a growing issue in the on-line world: the impact of internet technologies on your health. [linebreak] A new study has shown that children and […]
New publishing precedent
I don’t think it is the end of Youtube, but it is certainly a bit of a scare. An Italian court made the precedent setting decision to hold three Google executives responsible for invasion of privacy because of video hosted on the popular site. Up until now, web hosts have been exempt from privacy and […]
