O’Reilly Media is holding Ignite Boston 4 on Thursday, September 11, 2008 at the Hennessy’s Hooley House, 25 Union Street, Boston at 6 pm:
“From 6:00-6:45 pm, mingle and talk tech with your fellow FOOs (Friends of O’Reilly), alpha geeks, and techies from the greater Boston area. After the mingling and social stuff, we’ll have a [...]
“It was not until just this morning that the MBTA admitted what the students were doing isn’t a prank. If there’s ever been a shoot-the-messenger case, I guess this is it.” –Cindy Cohn, legal director for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the organization representing the students.
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“We’ve always maintained that there are certain details that [...]
Today’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society lunch focuses on mixing virtual worlds with the real world to plan new spaces and build communities. As you might imagine, there are a few people from Linden Labs, the folks behind Second Life, and fans of Second Life. Hub2 is one of the sites.
Imagine, design, engage, and [...]
“‘It is such a profound change as to be almost impossible to imagine. It would mean the end of a shared experience, sense of community, sense of common purpose. Newspapers represent all of that.’” –Herb Adams, a Portland resident who serves in the Maine House of Representatives
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“Part of a thriving democracy is having [...]
The Boston Globe discusses the spokesman for Somerville, Massachusetts, and his attempts to reach citizens via a community on LiveJournal in which city residents share blog posts. Despite some people finding his participation helpful, after some of his attempts to do good didn’t work quite as he hoped, he discontinued his blog.
The Pew Internet and American Life Project released a report on August 6, 2008 on search engine use:
‘The percentage of internet users who use search engines on a typical day has been steadily rising from about one-third of all users in 2002, to a new high of just under one half (49%).”
“With this increase, the [...]
ETH Zurich has released a comprehensive report called Understanding the Web browser threat: examination of vulnerable online Web browser populations and the “insecurity iceberg”:
“In recent years the Web browser has increasingly become targeted as an infection vector for vulnerable hosts. Classic service-centric vulnerability exploitation required attackers to scan for and remotely connect to vulnerable hosts [...]
NELINET, OCLC’s New England Affliate, has two conference discounts available:
Special Discount for WebSearch University – September 22 – 23, 2008
nformation Today, Inc. has announced that the Websearch University 2008 Conference will be held at the Washington Marriott in Washington, D.C. on September 22 – 23, 2008.
Information Today, Inc. is offering NELINET members the following special [...]
On Friday, August 22, the Boston Chapter of the Special Libraries Association is having the program “Tech Toys and Tools: What’s New, and What’s REALLY Useful” from 2-5 pm at Pierce Atwood LLP in Portland, Maine.
Since I can’t find information about this program on the Boston Chapter’s Web site, I will provide more information about [...]
Here’s some Friday fun for 080808. My coworker donkeykonguk shared a quiz on the 100 most popular English words via Babbledog, the site on which we work. Since some of you really enjoy language and speak English, I figure you might have some fun flexing your brain. Be quick! You only have 5 minutes to [...]