As more of our existence seems to transfer to a digital realm, our vulnerabilities will also make the shift. Here are the things to look out for in 2011.
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New Year’s Resolution: Send Smarter E-mails
Recipients won’t just judge your e-mail, they’ll judge you – or so says a new study Illinois’ Knox College that looks into the effect of e-mails on how others perceive you. It may seem redundant to school readers of a blog called Techland on proper e-mail usage, but as I receive more and more e-mails in my professional life that …
What Went Viral This Week
December 24, 2010 –
Happy Christmas Eve!
Extreme Christmas Caroling
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I would be pissed at 1:30AM too, but you have to admit Mike Dahlquist’s idea is brilliant.
Sacrilegious Christmas Card
People just don’t have a sense of humor these days [via The Daily What]
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A.V. Club Turns Their Podcast Into A Web Show
A.V. Club, the serious side of the Onion, has partnered with Internet television network Revision3 in order to form an online syndication program for their podcast A.V. Talk. The program will now become a web show moderated by the editors of the site and will continue to provide that super in-depth, way too analytical arts and …
‘Security’ That Makes A Grab For Your Wallet
Here’s a little story about an inattentive customer and the price of inattention. I play the sucker. The company that takes me for a ride is a surprise casting choice: McAfee, a reputable security vendor. McAfee’s anti-virus software is an industry standard, even if reviewers have been saying since last year that Microsoft’s free …
FCC Passes Ruling To Protect Net Neutrality
In the first act of US Internet access regulation, the Federal Communications Commission voted 3-2 to pass the first net neutrality laws. The measure will make sure that home internet users will be able to access any legal Web material, with some regulations set in place to protect people browsing the Internet on their mobile phones. The …
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Some of the Best Clouds are Personal Clouds
My Technologizer column over at TIME.com this week is about the time I spent with a Cr-48, Google’s experimental Chrome OS notebook. It’s called “The Promise and Pitfalls of Cloud Computing.” And really, I dislike the buzzword “cloud computing” so much that was a major concession on my part using it at all. Like many buzzwords, it (A) …
Porn Impossible To Block, ISPs Say
After British culture minister Ed Vaizey announced his intention to get internet service providers (ISPs) to prevent the country’s citizens from accessing pornography, experts tell the BBC the plan is nearly impossible. Chief Technology Officer at Timico Trefor Davies said with the amount of pornography online plus the various techniques …
As Yahoo Crumbles, Delicious Will Be Sold … Or Donated?
Last night, it seemed as if social bookmarking site Delicious was to be shuttered by Yahoo, and the blogs lit up with the usual pomp and circumstance – but it wasn’t true. At least, not exactly. After a steep round of layoffs, Yahoo is looking to drop Delicious, but will cut it loose to stand alone instead, a stay of execution for …
What Went Viral This Week
December 17, 2010 –
Sex Syrup (Actually SFW!!!)
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Don’t lie: You like the song, too. Yung Humma’s rhymes are just as smooth as that maple goodness.
“I Hate Football” Kid Gets Happy? …
Commerce Department Pushes for Online Privacy Bill of Rights
Against all odds, the government has managed to make the issue of online privacy even more boring. It’s true! Several news outlets (including this one now) are referring to a recent proposal from the Commerce Department as “the privacy bill of rights,” to try to spice things up a bit.
In reality, it’s a 70-page document called the …
Bing Updates: Let The Search Engine Make Decisions For You
Microsoft officially launched Bing 2.0 Wednesday night with changes to both their online search engine and mobile phone apps. Bing has been trying to compete against Google for dominance since it launched in June 2009, particularly by calling their program a “decision engine.” And that’s what these upgrades mostly are: additional …