Posts in: Internet life
- SxSW 2008: On Loren Feldman and Black Tech Bloggers
- This year’s Black Tech Bloggers panel at South by Southwest was a response to the furor caused by Loren Feldman’s “Black Tech Blogger” An Internet Opera, broadcast last summer. I did not watch it then. I tend to get very pissed off and physically affected when folks make broad, offensive generalizations about me and mine [...] [15 Mar 2008]
- Aww junk! I been BoingBoinged! (Where Are the Black Tech Bloggers?)
- Yeah, Joel Johnson of BoingBoing.net was at the South by Southwest “Where Are the Black Tech Bloggers?” — a panel I was asked to join at the last minute (but not the very last minute. That honor belongs to Cheryl :-). ). So Joel wrote about it, and the comments went straight to typical. Which, of [...] [14 Mar 2008]
- A Thursday three-fer in case you missed it
- WordPress 2.3.3 WordPress 2.3.3 is an urgent security release. If you have registration enabled a flaw was found in the XML-RPC implementation such that a specially crafted request would allow a user to edit posts of other users on that blog. Stop sharing spreadsheets, start collecting information Google Docs now lets you create custom forms to collect information [...] [7 Feb 2008]
- GlobalGrind.com = A failure about to happen
- Yes, I am a few days late commenting on this. When I first wrote about GlobalGrind.com, it was in its alpha phase as a start page geared towards the hip-hop generation. You could search pre-existing content and feeds or add your own to the GlobalGrind.com ecosystem. Think NetVibes, but with curated content that had a hip-hop perspective. [...] [15 Jan 2008]
- Why I went private on Twitter
- For 10 months I had a public profile on Twitter. I shared the minutae of my days or what I was thinking at the time, links to stuff I was reading, or jokes with friends. Somewhere along the way a total of 150 people started following me. I only knew or knew of about 60 of [...] [14 Jan 2008]
- Russian propaganda goes online
- Worth a listen: this CBC Search Engine podcast episode on the Kremlin’s use of bloggers as citizen propagandists, as well as government-paid hackers and saboteurs. The Kremlin piece starts about 6 minutes and 17 seconds into the show [MP3 download]. And you can find the T-shirt in the photo accompanying the post on CafePress.com. [10 Jan 2008]
