discover fire » Antisocial networking
“I’ve had enough. I just deleted my old Friendster and Tribe.net accounts, and a bunch of “friends” I’ve never met in my Myspace life. I was close to deleting my whole Myspace account. Thought I had more to say, but I don’t. Less is more.” (tags: social+media social+networks overload solutions)
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I just found in my Wordpress moderation queue this comment, submitted in response to my post about my blog being hacked by a spammer hawking Viagra:
“I hate viagra spam!!!”
…With (of course) a link to a site that sells Viagra. ROFL! Nice try, but no dice!
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Some of my Twitter friends who helped me this weekend. Thanks!
Lately I’ve gotten back into Twitter — the service that is strangely addictive, yet people often can’t clearly articulate why they use it. It seems to have struck the online community at a subconscious level, and is seeking a conscious purpose or rationalization.
I’m agahran [...]
Lijit as a “me collector” — see it in action in my sidebar.
Yesterday I finally got around to implementing the Lijit search widget on this blog. I didn’t realize until I started playing around with the widget settings that this cool little tool actually goes a long way toward being the kind of “me collector” [...]
A month after Google announced it was going to increase free storage space for Gmail users by an unspecified amount, I’m still seeing the storage space in my account creep steadily upward.
For context, a month ago my account had about 2.9 G of space, with 59% of it used. As of this morning, I have [...]
Where better to steal blog passwords than over the open wifi at a blogger conference?
…OK, I don’t know for an absolute fact that’s where and how this blog got hacked, but it does seem extremely likely. So Blogworld Expo attendees, be forewarned — and check your blogs. Specifically, check the source code of your most [...]
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No, my post yesterday was NOT supposed to mention Viagra extensively. My blog has been hacked. I’m working on fixing it.
UPDATE: After I posted this, Mihai Parparita brought to my attention that he’s also seeing this spam in Google Reader. (Thanks, Mihai.) So it appears my blog may have been hacked. This totally sucks, I’ll [...]
Tom Frey, Da Vinci Institute
The news biz is definitely at “Maximum Freud.”
The DaVinci Institute - Approaching Maximum Freud
“This is the period when industry players have to spend lots of time on the Freudian Couch to understand what’s going on. A period of extreme chaos, and also a period of extreme opportunity. But here’s the most [...]
Think it’s easy blogging a blogging conference? Think again.
(UPDATE: If you’re reading this post in a feed reader, you may see a big block of spam below. Sorry about that — my blog has been hacked. I’m working to fix it.)
The thing about conferences is that, in my opinion, it’s really damn hard [...]
Amy Gahran
The Blogworld Expo lounge, wifi included.
I’ve been writing a fair amount lately about blogging ethics, and it’s all been in preparation for my panel today. Here’s some food for thought from my panelists:
Toby Bloomberg recently did an excellent podcast exploring Astroturfing: Grassroots Sleaze
Graydancer has written some thoughtful posts on respecting privacy, and on setting [...]
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