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05/27/2020

Drupal 8, Introduction.

Drupal 8 brings a lot of changes. Many standby contributed modules are now included with Drupal Core, and many small changes add up to the most exciting Drup...

05/10/2015

When a stolen document worth $79000 is actually for sale in a $13 booklet. This is a great story from 1990, reminiscent of wiki leaks and the birth of the electronic frontier foundation.

How roleplaying games and fantasy fiction confounded the FBI, confronted the law, and led to a more open web

03/26/2015

The work non-profits do is too important to be afraid of failure, and their work is too urgent to honor every sacred cow.

DoSomething is a stellar success, a fast-growing non-profit that's engaging with millions of young people around the world. Most organizations can learn something from their recent experiences. Basically, their customers changed. They changed how they consumed media, how they connected...

01/28/2015

Shame on you, Google, for conning so many people into shelling out 1500 dollars for a product that you had no intention of standing behind.

Google ends sales of its Glass eyewear saying it wants to concentrate on developing future versions of the wearable device.

01/27/2015

"If you're making your smart phone buying decisions based on the hardware specifications, that means you don't actually do enough with it to justify buying a smartphone at all." ... GID

Mayweather vs. Maidana, May 4, 2014 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oj0Cd5UA ... CZggUJP7Fw Matthysse vs. Molina, April 26, 2014 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROrGDZgx-Kc

11/24/2014

Quick example of Advertising vs. Reality, screenshot below:

The "Black Friday" price from GoDaddy ($9.77), with all the discounts, is still 28 cents higher than the everyday price ($9.49) at NearlyFreeSpeech.net, the most straightforward and no-nonsense hosting company in the business.

You can pay for advertising, or you can pay for actual people.

11/12/2014

On the one hand, forcing the Internet into a "utility" classification could backfire horribly on all of us.

On the other hand ... the only dissenters Inc. Magazine could find for their article were politicians and lobbyists.

http://www.inc.com/jeremy-quittner/pros-and-cons-of-obama-plan-for-net-neutrality.html?cid=em01011week46day11a

President Obama's plan for net neutrality has winners and losers. Here's both sides of the argument.

11/08/2014

I like the "equalizing" potential of this project. It's time to demystify the art of technical thinking.

Erin Brady plans to bust the gender gap in STEM with a new, how-to coding series.

11/07/2014

It would be nice if we could have our credit cards issue temporary numbers .. then this sort of problem would be much less catastrophic.

With email, however, this is possible.

How many people have their own personal domain names?

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/11/07/us-home-depot-dataprotection-idUSKBN0IQ2L120141107

(Reuters) - Home Depot Inc, the world's largest home improvement chain, said hackers stole about 53 million email addresses in addition to customer data for 56 million payment cards previously disclosed

11/06/2014

Remember this article the next time someone tries to convince you of the "secrets" they know about Search Engines or Social Media.

The trouble with ignorance is that it feels so much like expertise. A leading researcher on the psychology of human wrongness sets us straight.

10/30/2014

Just an example of how a local business can reach way outside their front door and create long-lasting relationships with the community.

This story comes from Buffalo, NY.

Alexandra Vitale visits Ilio DiPaolo's, A Buffalo Bills and Western New York tradition and talks with Ilio DiPaolo's owner, Dennis DiPaolo.

10/16/2014

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