Category: Security & Privacy

  • Roll Your Own DIY Security System

    Roll Your Own DIY Security System This Weekend Adam Dachis, lifehacker.com Your home is a place you want to keep secure, but get­ting all the high-end secu­ri­ty gad­gets and ser­vices avail­able to help you do that is a pricey endeav­or. This week­end, roll your own DIY secu­ri­ty sys­tem. It’s more fun and it’ll save y……

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  • Status People Fake Follower Check

      Status People Fake Follower Check — Social Media Management Platform for Business   statuspeople.com     http://flpbd.it/9tryc   Related articles I Bought 10,000 Fake Twitter Followers. Why Didn’t Klout, Kred (or Others) Notice? (ignitesocialmedia.com) Twitter followers available on the open market (cbc.ca) How Do Those Fake Tweeple Hurt (insideview.ie) Want that Twitter verification badge?…

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  • Just how hot is it in the US right now?

    Just how hot is it in the US right now? – Boing Boing. Related articles As Climate Changes, Urban Planners Help Cities Adapt (wbur.org) BBC Burnt Over Climate Change Claim UK Will Be As Hot As Madeira (chimalaya.org) Plan Panel Seeks to Rewrite India’s Climate Change Stance (chimalaya.org) Climate change is real, Canadians say, but…

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  • PhD in Personal Health Informatics at Northeastern University

    PHI. Related articles Register for the Public Health Informatics: Model Best Practices Virtual Meeting (medicineandtechnology.com) Clinical Senior Lecturer in Health Informatics Vacancy: University of Manchester, UK (imianews.wordpress.com) The Role of Informatics in The Laboratory (pharmaceuticalintelligence.com) IMIA Yearbook 2012 Available (imianews.wordpress.com) Health Informatics Forum MOOC to Launch (imianews.wordpress.com) Researcher will push emerging field of biodiversity informatics…

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  • Jobs for the Future (JFF) uses online intelligence to find jobs in most demand

    In contrast to traditional survey based means of measuring job growth which can be quite inaccurate  Jobs for the Future’s (JFF)  John Dorrer uses ethnographic/online methods to analyze job postings (mining nearly 100,000 unique online postings for the three months ending February 14) in real time to extract the skills employers are asking for right now, then works…

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  • SES Conference & Expo | Education for Today’s Experienced Marketing & Advertising Professionals

    SES Conference & Expo | Education for Today’s Experienced Marketing & Advertising Professionals. Related articles Demand for SEO Professionals Has Never Been Greater [Study] (conductor.com) Organizational Structure for Paid and Natural Search Teams | Conductor Blog (conductor.com) Learning SEO – Where to Start (distilled.net) Interview with Kevin Gibbons, MD of Quaturo (arhg.net) SES Conference and…

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  • MailSteward: an answer to disappearing mail in Apple mail

    Recently I’ve noticed a bug in Apple mail in which some of my email disappears. Others have written about this (see Google). As a result I’ve begun using this archiving utility to keep download backups of my mail. MailSteward. Related articles Apple Mail in 10.8: New Special Folder for AppleScripts Used in Rules (startier.wordpress.com) Apple…

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  • Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity: fact or fiction?

    Recently I’ve become aware of more and more concern about the electromagnetic soup we are embedded in from all of our various gadgets. While Europe has taken a much more cautious approach on this, the USA as always, has let free enterprise rule. Here is a fairly balanced Wiki article on this topic. Needless to…

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  • Center for Democracy & Technology | Keeping the Internet Open, Innovative and Free

    Center for Democracy & Technology | Keeping the Internet Open, Innovative and Free. Related articles The Declaration of Internet Freedom (muninetworks.org) Civil liberties groups praise revised cybersecurity bill (networkworld.com) Google and Facebook’s new tactic in the tech wars (tech.fortune.cnn.com) Is it time for an online ‘constitutional moment’? On the Declaration of Internet Freedom (blogs.siliconvalley.com) Journalists,…

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  • University of Michigan: School of Information

          UMSI.   Related articles   Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies Offers Certificate of Advanced Study in Data Science (digital-scholarship.org) Yale Braunstein, professor of information, dies at 67 (ischool.berkeley.edu) Michigan School Report Cards Released (detroit.cbslocal.com) University of Michigan Courses (programmableweb.com)  

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  • John Rooksby ethnography and tech expert

    John Rooksby. Related articles What kind of researcher do you want to be? (cassieearl.wordpress.com) Outside In: Breaking Some Anthropology Rules for Design [guest contributor] (ethnographymatters.net) More self-managing organizations? (orgtheory.wordpress.com) Ethnography & The Customer: Building a Compelling Brand (ablebrains.typepad.com) Ethnography revisited – timing and pacing (orgtheory.wordpress.com)

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