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Thursday, January 23, 2003 |
The Art of Blogging. George Siemens writes insightfully about blogging. I am looking forward to Part 2 on the 6th. Thanks to Doc for the link.
The Art of Blogging-Part 1
Overview, Definitions, Uses, and Implications
Blogging is using a new medium for what it is good for - connecting and interacting. Blogging is a first generation tool built on, and taking advantage of, the unique attributes of the Internet. It has been dismissed as a self-centered passing fad...and as the new model of interactive journalism, communication, and learning. This article explores the the uses, benefits, implications, and art of blogging.
[Craig Burton: logs, links, life, and lexicon]
6:14:54 AM 
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Nashville Wi-Fi: Another regional story about Wi-Fi in the local market. The reporter repeats something mentioned in the New York Times article about Long Beach without mentioning the source or that in the original article it was a speculative based on reports that the article didn't mention: That's why Seattle, San Francisco, San Diego, San Jose and other tech-savvy cities have committed to creating ''hot zones'' in their downtowns. Although community wireless projects in at least some of these cities are bringing in wireless in larger areas, none of those four cities have municipally supported projects that I'm aware of. [80211b News]
6:13:08 AM
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10-4, My Dear Fellow. Trans-atlantic GPRS Walkie-talkie
"FastMobile, an Illinois based mobile phone services company, has successfully completed a voice push-to-talk test between Chicago and London over GPRS on Symbian OS devices.
Using off-the-shelf Nokia 7650 and not-even-on-shelves-yet 3650 handsets with Symbian operating systems, FastMobile recently tested push-to-talk voice over conventional GSM/GPRS networks. A FastMobile server, located in suburban Chicago and untethered to any operator, routed the digitized voice and text conversations across the GSM/GPRS networks of US operator, T-Mobile, and UK operators, Orange and Vodafone.
The successful test was completed without requiring any special hardware to be added to the either the mobile handset or the operators' networks, an saw group voice and text instant messages sent simultaneously among the participants using a FastMobile application running on Series 60 handsets from Nokia." [infoSync] [The Shifted Librarian]
5:31:38 AM
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Business News from Wired News - Identity Theft on the Rise. The government received twice as many complaints about identity theft last year than in 2001, with victims reporting hijacked credit cards, drained bank accounts and tarnished reputations. "This is a crime that is almost solely on the shoulders of the victim to resolve," said Beth Givens, director of the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a San Diego-based consumer group. "They're beleaguered, they're tired, they're angry and it takes them a good deal of time to recover." The number of identity theft complaints rose from about 86,000 in 2001 to about 162,000 last year, the Federal Trade Commission said Wednesday. The figures come from a government database of 380,000 fraud complaints collected by the FTC, the FBI and scores of law enforcement and consumer groups. Identity theft accounted for 43 percent of the complaints, topping the government's list of consumer frauds for a third consecutive year. Gripes about fraud in Internet auctions ranked No. 2 and accounted for 13 percent of complaints. Up to 700,000 people in the United States may be victimized by identity bandits each year, the Justice Department says. It costs the average victim more than $1,000 to cope with the damage to their accounts and reputations, the FTC has said. [Privacy Digest]
5:26:56 AM
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CNET NEWS.COM - AOL shutters Web e-mail hole. America Online shuttered a security hole in its Web e-mail service on Wednesday after being tipped off to the flaw, but not before "hundreds" of accounts had been compromised. Few details of the incident have emerged, but AOL spokesman Andrew Weinstein confirmed that the online giant closed the hole Wednesday morning. "We believe only a very small number of accounts--in the hundreds, not thousands--were affected," Weinstein said, adding that the company is still taking stock of the incident to pinpoint what accounts had been targeted. The incident, first reported by the BetaNews Web site, apparently was caused by flaws in the software that authenticates international users. The flaws allowed anyone to access an AOL e-mail account with only the account name and not the password. An attacker, then, could gain access to a known account, or, by way of a lucky guess, a random account. An attacker could then use the weakness to get hold of the AOL user's password. Using the account name, the attacker could attempt to log in to AOL Instant Messenger. The IM log-in window offers a link labeled "Forgot my password," which, when clicked, brings up a page in the user's Web browser asking if he or she would like the IM password e-mailed. In many--if not most--cases, AOL users assign the same password to their e-mail and instant messaging accounts. [Privacy Digest]
5:25:10 AM
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