Cybercriminals mine for personal data on blogs, Facebook, MySpace

Posting too much personal information on a blog, forum or a social networking site such as Facebook and MySpace can leave you wide open to criminals who can use that information to break into your bank accounts.

Check out my lifestreaming tumblelog

I’ve been experimenting with lifestreaming. I have a tumblelog. I’m pushing my blog posts from here into tumblr.com at http://garynielson.tumblr.com/.

The next generation of newspaper editors will come from online

You heard it here first. Sometime in the next five years, the top editor of a major American metro daily will be picked from the Internet space — from either the paper’s online staff or from outside of newspapers.
I realized this today when reading Reflections of a Newsosaur, Alan Mutter’s blog. He wrote:

How to add social bookmarking links to WordPress posts

I want to add links to various social networking sites, such as Facebook, to the bottom of my posts. But there is no add-in available at WordPress.com. However, there is a simple way to add links to del.icio.us, blinklist, furl, digg, gnolia, stumbleupon, simpy, newsvine, reddit, fark and [...]

Addicted to WordPress.com’s Blog Stats

In the week I’ve been writing this blog, I’ve found myself checking WordPress’s Blog Stats all too frequently. (I am not the only one: See In My Own Skin.) I was puzzled this morning to see this search term someone used:
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Fortunately, this is not a trend, is it? Is it an [...]

Blogging on the Apple iPhone

How good is the WordPress app for the Apple iPhone? This is my first iPhone post. The app is intuitive and easy to use. The hardest part is typing on the iPhone and I am fixing lots of typos along the way.
I had tested the TypePad app, too, and this one seems just as intuitive. [...]

Local news flourishes, thanks to bloggers

It may take someone outside of a newspaper to figure out community journalism.
I was having lunch with an old friend and former colleague the other day. He left newspapers a few years ago. We were talking about the passing of the newspaperman. I had just read Spokesman Review Editor Steven A. Smith’s poignant column about [...]

Blogging is out, Lifestreaming is in

Just when I decide to finally try blogging, I stumble on an article that the blog may be passe. The latest trend, according to readwriteweb.com, is lifestreaming. Think FriendFeed. Think stream of consciousness. Think hit-and-run reading.
“The simplicity of a lifestream is ideal for our information overloaded age,” writes Sarah Perez.
“Lifestreams are short and sweet, yet [...]

The joke’s on Microsoft Vista

I hate Vista. It’s caused me nothing but trouble. To get it to run speedily, I had to disable all the eye candy, including the Sidebar. I disabled the obnoxious Search Indexing feature that causes everything else to load at an agonizingly slow pace. My PC sometimes takes up to a half hour to shut [...]