Archive for June, 2008
Both my current and former employers have sent me letters within the last two weeks saying that my personal information may have been compromised. They each had separate laptop-theft incidents in their respective HR departments. It strikes me as just a little too coincidental that it would happen in two separate incidents so close in [...]
Guy Kawasaki tweeted this question today:
Is the Internet a Source of Information or Misinformation?
With a link to this post on Trueomors about how people think that information found through research on the Internet is not reliable, citing Wikipedia as the prime example. People are saying that children’s heads are being filled with untruths and [...]
Tuning into the coverage Clinton’s and Obama’s speeches last night, I must say that the best analysis was coming from Twitter. All of the major news outlets had uploaded their stories about the respective candidates, citing Clinton’s shortcomings and offering analysis about why she failed, and trumpeting Obama’s clinching the nomination.
What I had just watched [...]
I am remiss for not posting this earlier (not that anyone is reading this blog yet). Johnathon Coleman created a room in FriendFeed for nonprofit technology professionals. He and Barb Kantor have been working together to get people talking to each other and sharing resources.
It’s working!
I, of course, haven’t had the time to participate much [...]
I was thinking today that it would be really nice if some of these new online tools would write up better descriptions of what their tools do and how to use them. I appreciate that the real strength of the developers is writing code, not English prose, so some things really get lost in translation. [...]
There was lots of interesting chatter going on last night over Twitter, Facebook, and FriendFeed about a new Twitter competitor called Plurk. Haven’t tried it myself, but I was following a bit of the chat into to the wee hours (yes, I stayed up too late again).
What I have found through experimentation and following these [...]
I went to a local gathering of Women Who Tech today, and met some very nice people: Kara, Tiffany, and Rachel (we’re all following each other on Twitter now — thank goodness I have been Twittering recently! That was one of the first things they asked me). We introduced ourselves, and I confessed to being [...]
I am definitely feeling sorry for myself. This is one of those times where I really wish that I had some more tech skills. I have spent far too much time trying to log into Second Life, to no avail. So frustrating because I am not able to access any of the information I am [...]
