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[BabyTrollBlog Magazine of the Internet] And, You Know...: Readers and bloggers alike, are urged to joing the Blogosphere mailing list, hosted by Jon Henke of Q and O fame. The idea is to provide a general forum for exchanging info, leads, tips, ideas, and opinions -- it is hoped, in synergy with this region of the Blogosphere, to heterodyne and improve and expand the reach of all.
[a shel of my former self] Can you read this?: ...companies worry that employees might leak sensitive material—perhaps inadvertently—while posting comments to blog message boards. In a survey of over 300 large businesses conducted in conjunction with Forrester, Proofpoint found 57.2 percent of respondents were concerned with employees exposing sensitive material in blogs.
[Bloggers Blog -- Blogging the Blogosphere] Time to Vote for the 2005 BOBs: Categories include best weblogs, best multimedia weblog, best podcasting site and a special Reporters Without Borders award. The is also a category for the best journalistic blog in several languages including Arabic, Chinese, English, French, German, Persian, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
[The Republic of T.] Blogging on the Clock: Filtering out every blog isn’t a completely feasible project (and, in fact, Mason says his company’s filter doesn’t catch everything), but the technology to censor the lion’s share of blogs is fairly commonplace. From installing simple URL filters and content scanners to blacklisting ranges of IP addresses, myriad methods for shutting out blog content are available.
[The Hotline's Blogometer] 10/24: World To End This Week, Bloggers Hardest Hit?: now Maureen Dowd is the 2nd -- a free version is available at Truthout.org -- criticizing her character and all but calling for her to be fired: "Judy told The Times that she plans to write a book and intends to return to the newsroom, hoping to cover "the same thing I've always covered -- threats to our country." If that were to happen, the institution most in danger would be the newspaper in your hands." She appears to some to make further allegations about Miller's propriety, as noted on the left by both The News Blog's Steve Gilliard and Firedoglake's Jane Hamsher. BuzzMachine's centrist Jeff Jarvis -- a consultant to the Times -- calls Miller the "Times' Dan Rather," arguing that Miller, "like Rather, had the support of her editors and her institution -- and no small proportion of her profession -- and it is that blind, deaf, and dumb stubborn support that now must cause them to change their worldview, their relationship with the public, their pressthink." TPM's Marshall calls on the Times to reconsider running stories based on leaks where the gov't "itself decides to put out a story, but does so through leaks rather than officially." He writes, Miller's "WMD fiasco isn't the only mess the Times has found itself in the last decade.
[Blogsofwar.com] Blogs of War | Defense-Tech-Space: Of course the document issue is typical face saving bullshit but the important thing here that Miers gets nowhere near the Supreme Court (whew!) and everyone gets to avoid what would have been disastrous hearings.
[Blogs.washingtonpost.com] Security Fix - Brian Krebs on Computer Security - (washingtonpost.com): In my day job (i.e., when I'm not filling in on this blog for Brian Krebs), I write the Help File how-to column inSunday's Business section. Spyware is a perennial topic in that space, and byfar the worst spyware offender -- to go by the mail I get from readers -- is theparasite known variously as Aurora,ABetterInternet, or nail.exe.
[Amcptwo.blogspot.com] AMCP Computer Privacy TECH BLOG: Microsoft says it is "a comprehensive and simple-to-use consumer subscription service that will provide automated protection, maintenance and performance tuning as an all-in-one package for Windows-based PCs." "Windows OneCare is the next major advance in our ongoing efforts to help keep consumers' Windows-based PCs 'healthy' in a way that's simple and as worry-free as possible for them," said Ryan Hamlin, general manager of the Technology Care and Safety Group at Microsoft. "We're designing the service so it will continually update and evolve over time, helping to ensure that our customers will have the most complete and effective protection and safety services in place every time they turn on their PC."
[Docuverse.com] Don Park's Daily Habit: Dave rants and Scott ponders about walls. I agree that walls are not fair to everybody, particularly to those who find themselves not within the walls, and that increasing popularity of invite-only events and services is not healthy for the community as a whole.
Reflected tags on Technorati: Blog, Security, Global Security Watch
