Diggers React to Facebook Fatality
Friday April 04th 2008, 1:45 pm
Filed under: Web 2.0, social networking

The Telegraph is quoting a Saudi clerick, Ali al-Maliki, critical of Facebook:

Facebook is a door to lust and young women and men are spending more on their mobile [...] Continue Reading…



Betting on the News…?!
Thursday April 03rd 2008, 4:47 pm
Filed under: social networking

NewsFutures: Prediction Markets is a new social news sites, which boasts “delivering the wisdom of crowds”. To see how it works, go here, and create an account. No real [...] Continue Reading…



Military Report: ‘Secretly Recruit Bloggers’
Thursday April 03rd 2008, 11:10 am
Filed under: blogging

Noah Shachtman: A study, written for U.S. Special Operations Command, suggested ‘clandestinely recruiting or hiring prominent bloggers’.
Since the start of the Iraq war, there’s been a raucous debate in [...] Continue Reading…



Military Report: Secretly ‘Recruit or Hire Bloggers’
Wednesday April 02nd 2008, 3:12 pm
Filed under: Tech Tips, blogging
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Noah Shachtman: A study, written for U.S. Special Operations Command, suggested ‘clandestinely recruiting or hiring prominent bloggers’.
Since the start of the Iraq war, there’s been a raucous debate in [...] Continue Reading…



Google’s April Fool’s Joke
Tuesday April 01st 2008, 3:50 pm
Filed under: Tech Tips

Yes, I fell for it again this year…for just a minute. Remember last year, when Google tried to sell us Gmail Paper? Complete with beta user testimonials?

Well, they’ve done [...] Continue Reading…



WebWarriors Web 2.0 Wiki: social networking, blogging, tech tips, tutorials, etc…
Thursday March 27th 2008, 3:49 pm
Filed under: Web 2.0

Ft. Hard Knox recently teamed up with with Web Warriors all over the blogosphere to take political activism online to a whole new level. Web Warriors of Ft. Hard [...] Continue Reading…



How do you overcome “Blogger’s Block?”
Sunday March 23rd 2008, 5:08 pm
Filed under: blogging, writing

Revised and updated from 11/14/07

“Blogger’s Block” is the new “Writer’s Block.” You know that feeling…you sit down to write a blog post, and just stare at the paper [...] Continue Reading…



FriendFeed - Web 2.0 for Fans of Discussion Forums
Thursday March 20th 2008, 10:40 pm
Filed under: Tech Tips, Web 2.0

Several of my friends on Facebook have joined FriendFeed. I did, too, yesterday, and am very pleased with what I’ve found. For one thing, it distracted me from [...] Continue Reading…



Because we all need more gadgets…
Wednesday March 19th 2008, 3:00 pm
Filed under: Funny, Gadgets

Any of us that blog know there’s really not enough space in the sidebar for all the stuff we’d like to put there already…so why do we find new [...] Continue Reading…



Global Hysteria Goes Hi-Tech - Watch out for the “2038 Bug”
Wednesday March 19th 2008, 10:32 am
Filed under: Funny, Tech Tips, Unix

Remember how the calendar turning over to 2000 was supposed to bring on Armageddon? Then a few hangers-on said ok, that didn’t happen, but it was really 2001 when [...] Continue Reading…