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Online presence of hate, terrorist groups up 20%
Mar 16@1:55pm: Hate groups have always been a presence on the Internet, but their presence is growing quicker lately thanks to social networking sites. According to a report from the Simon Wiesenthal Center (SWC), groups that promote violence, terrorism, homopho... [from Ars Technica]
Waledac Botnet Now Completely Offline, Experts Say
Mar 16@1:18pm: Trailrunner7 writes "After Microsoft's actions to take down the Waledac botnet last month, there was some question about whether the operation was much more than a grab for headlines that would have little effect on actual spam levels or malware i... [from Slashdot]
FCC Shows How to Make an American Internet Quilt
Mar 16@12:47pm: Following the the Federal Communications Commission's release of a detailed plan for giving Americans better access to broadband Internet connections, the blueprint is drawing reactions across a wide range of observers and interested parties. "Thi... [from E-Commerce Times]
US Sits On Supply of Rare, Tech-Crucial Minerals
Mar 16@12:35pm: We've recently discussed China's position as the linchpin of the world's supply of rare earths, and their rumblings about restricting exports of of these materials crucial to the manufacture of everything from batteries to wind turbines. Now an an... [from Slashdot]
National Broadband Plan arrives, quoting Shakespeare
Mar 16@12:30pm: When the federal government spends more than a year developing a 300+ page report on national broadband policy, perhaps the last thing one expects to find in it is a quote from Shakespeare's Henry IV. As two rebels plot their assault on the Eng... [from Ars Technica]
Dell Hits Style, Substance Sweet Spot With Low-Cost Executive Laptops
Mar 16@6:00am: The "trickling down" of enterprise computing features to smaller businesses has long been a part of life in an IT universe governed by Moore's Law. However, trickle-down IT also has significant implications in desktop and mobile computing, as well... [from E-Commerce Times]
AWeber Bugs Again
Sep 2@6:47pm: For the most part, I love AWeber. But as I wrote last year, they’ve got a few really irritating problems. Here’s my latest gripe. About a month ago, I deleted 11 follow-up messages from one of my autoresponder sequences — they weren’t converting, ... [from Alpha Gecko : Email]
Can Google Reader Woo Me Away From NetNewsWire?
Aug 6@4:56pm: When Google Reader debuted, there was no question — it was as bad as all the other web-based feed readers. No way was I going to dump NetNewWire for it. A few days ago, somebody (someone I follow on Twitter, I think — perhaps Michel Fortin?) comme... [from Alpha Gecko : Atom/RSS]
Browser & Screen Resolution Trends
Jul 8@12:31am: I just checked the browser and screen resolution stats for www.geckotribe.com and wow, what a surprise! Firefox is wiping the floor with IE on that domain! One of my other heavily trafficed domains reverses the picture, but another looks almost e... [from Alpha Gecko : Web Design]
LinContEx.com was going to be “BlogRush done right”…
May 26@9:07pm: A little over a year and a half ago, when John Reese announced his BlogRush service, I thought “oh, c**p,” (that word isn’t “CaRP” :-) “one of the big boys beat me to my idea.” At the time, I’d begun working on a site that was going to be similar,... [from Alpha Gecko : SEO]
Day Without Email: What If I Can’t Shut My Mail Server Down?
Dec 18@3:25pm: Yesterday, I suggested we organize a Day Without Email where we’d all shut off our SMTP servers for a day. We wouldn’t send any email out, and no email would come in. (But messages to us wouldn’t get lost because the senders’ servers would keep re... [from Alpha Gecko : Email]
My Uber-Optimized Domain And Blog Names
Jul 23@2:15pm: Yesterday I started a new blog on a domain I’d been using mostly to redirect traffic to other sites. The domain name is “ToSeeMore.info”. The blog directory is “about”. It’s on a subdomain named “click”. So the URLs to the blog posts and categorie... [from Alpha Gecko : SEO]