Wikigate ’07 – Much Ado About Nothing
The informational integrity of Wikipedia has long been debated throughout the ranks of academia, business communities, and the like. While some cynicism can be lent to the validity of the online reference guide’s volume of information, today’s blogosphere explosion may represent a bit of an overreaction.
Who Needs Website Quality?
Back in the days, to get into the search engines you only had to submit a site to them and it’d show up in the results (or you could just get listed in the Yahoo directory).
Join Facebook, Become A CIA Operative
Social networking has become the hip new platform for many professionals such as marketers, musicians, writers, tech evangelists, and a multitude of others. It seems that now the U.S. Government has taken notice of social networks and their recruitment potential.
Microsoft Unveils New Tools For The Disabled
Microsoft, along with assistive technology (AT) vendors, has announced a whole slew of products and services for people with disabilities at the eighth annual Assistive Technology Industry Association conference.
Attracting A Steady Audience – Quantity Or Quality?
I came across a thread in WebProWorld discussing two different types of blog posting styles – making a lot of posts in a given day (around 30) or making a much smaller number of longer, more researched posts. The idea behind making such a large amount of blog posts in a given day – much […]
More to Social Media Than Links
I’ve never been a fan of the word “linkbait” but it has stuck within our industry and so I’ve learned to adapt and accept it, even use it.
Um, It’s Gone, Vint Cerf Did It
Surprising news comes from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN); they have removed the top-level domain .um, for United States “minor outlying islands,” from the list of available domains.
Windows Vista Incompatible With Korea?
On January 31, Windows Vista will hit the shelves in Korea. Microsoft’s latest operating system, however, may leave many Korean users unable to reach many of their favorite web destinations.
MySQL Administration via ColdFusion
A user asked me if it was possible to backup and restore a MySQL database from ColdFusion.
Immortal Computing Is A Little Creepy, Microsoft
In my grandparent’s basement, on the wall, there are pictures of ugly, frowning people, relatives of mine, in that ghostly, milky sepia coloring all those 19th Century photos have. They’re dead, those people, and some part of them is part of me – but if they had ever spoken to me through those dusty frames (and I imagined they did), Great Great Grandfather would be dead twice, his second life smashed on the mantle.