San Francisco Held Cyber-Hostage? Disgruntled Techies Have Wreaked Worse Havoc | Threat Level from Wired.com
“Takeover of the SF govt’s new fiber optic network by employee who locked out other admins.The city is still scrambling to regain control of the municipal network that handles everything from the mayor’s e-mail to San Francisco’s electronic court records”
(tags: government [...]
I’m using a new FriendFeed account, amylive, as a backup for my live coverage in case Twitter fails (which happens).
I’m here at the last day of BlogHer 2008 in San Francisco, where I’ve been covering live coverage of some sessions via my amylive account on Twitter. (Many other attendees have been tweeting about the conference, [...]
Reflections of a Newsosaur: Just $3.6B: Total value of 10 news stocks
Bad, bad financial news for the newspaper biz…. “Newspaper shares have lost nearly $4 billion in value in the first 10 trading days of July, greater than the combined market capitalization of all but the 3 largest publicly held publishing companies.”
(tags: newspapers business [...]
iPhone Video Recorder - DreamCatcher Official Site
This could be very useful. Lack of video is a big iPhone weakness, currently…
(tags: apple video mobie moblogging hardware iphone)
Blogging While Brown Conference | July 25-27, 2008 | Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Great conference on new media from the perspective of people of color. Sold out, but will be live online.
(tags: [...]
Me, missing the morning sessions of BlogHer because I was posting all this stuff…
I’m at the BlogHer 2008 conference in San Francisco, where later today I’ll be giving a writing workshop. I’m a last-minute replacement for BlogHer cofounder Lisa Stone — talk about someone who’s tough to replace! But I’ll do my best.
Feel free to [...]
Form Bookmarklets
A bunch of bookmarklets for your browser that expand your ability to interact with online forms.
(tags: tools usability writing)
“How do you stop someone scraping / stealing your blog content?”: Tech Support from Ask Dave Taylor!
His main answer is a summary feed, which has it’s own drawbacks
(tags: nefarious blogs problems solutions feeds content+rights)
http://www.google.com/search?q=block+text+messages+on+iphone&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=FlockInc.:en-US:official&client=firefox
Here’s how you [...]
WordPress › Support » Permalink and category links broken in 2.6
If you upgrade to wordpress 2.6, watch out, it may break some of your permalinks. If that happens, here’s how to fix it.
(tags: wordpress software problems solutions info+access)
Reflections of a Newsosaur: Just $3.6B: Total value of 10 news stocks
Bad, bad financial news for the newspaper [...]
delicious blog » using delicious on your iphone
Since I rely on del.icio.us to keep track of cool stuff and feed my blog, this tip is invaluable for using del.icio.us on the iPhone — especially posting to del.iciou.us, which I do a lot.
(tags: iPhone sharing tips technology tutorial video mobile social+media)
Terrorist watch list at airports tops [...]
Today I was out and about running several errands, catching up on my backlog of podcasts. Two shows that came up in the queue really got my attention, and I think everyone involved in media (especially online or mobile media, particularly any media with an audio component) should listen — REALLY listen — to them [...]
Five Lessons From a Year of Blogging « Web 2.Oh. . .really?
What veteran journo Craig Stoltz has learned from a year of blogging
(tags: blogging journalism publicity tips writing tidbits+fodder)
iPhone FAQ - Everything iCafe
Useful collection of iphone FAQs for total noobs like me
(tags: iPhone tutorials)
Orlando Sentinel - Some thoughts on the Twitter/iPhone reporting experiment
How a group [...]
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