by David | Nov 22, 2011 | Blogging, Blogs, Digital Migration
Once again, I’m using the social media-aggregation tool Storify to work up a story using the Twitter feeds of reporters & protesters on the scene. This time, it’s in Tahrir Square, where the confrontations between the police and the citizens (fed up...
by David | Jun 24, 2011 | Blogging, Blogs, Digital Migration
Here’s a short audio file i recorded at the close of the Civic Media conference this week at MIT. I’d like to add my own thanks to the sentiments expressed herein; thus was a fabulous antidote to the general malaise afflicting so many of our traditional...
by David | Jan 7, 2011 | Blogging, Conspiracy Theories
This is only an educated guess, but something has changed in the past month in those voluminous End User Licensing Agreements (aka EULAs aka “That dense small-font document that nobody bothers to read”), and it seems to be coming from Homeland Security. It...
by David | Apr 21, 2010 | Blogging, Blogs
A 12-step program to get your blog so’s it can go out in public again …when last we left the hacked blog, it had managed to delete the phony users and admins, and the permalinkspam was gone. Jump ahead to last week, when I noticed that my Google AdSense...
by David | Apr 20, 2010 | Blogging, Blogs
A 12-step program to send your out-of-control blog to rehab If your blog has been hacked, your first indication is when it starts acting like it’s in the late stages of particularly noxious drug addiction. Your once mild-mannered blog is a now a nasty Hollywood...